In this image, taken on June 5, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's ...
Space Exploration
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Sending manned missions to Mars is essential, according to Pierre Brisson, the president of Mars Society Switzerland, "because we can." We spoke with him about this challenge while he was at EPFL recently to give a talk.
Space Exploration
May 28, 2019
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For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars.
Environment
Feb 26, 2018
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Researchers investigating whether liquid water could exist on Mars have provided new insight into the limits of life on the red planet.
Condensed Matter
Oct 13, 2017
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Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil—the ...
Engineering
Apr 27, 2017
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It's hard enough to transport humans to Mars. But once they get there, where will they live?
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2017
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(Phys.org)—In 1976, two Viking landers became the first US spacecraft from Earth to touch down on Mars. They took the first high-resolution images of the planet, surveyed the planet's geographical features, and analyzed ...
Tucked away in a Florida Institute of Technology lab, a would-be Martian garden grows.
Space Exploration
Oct 03, 2016
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NASA seems to believe that making space habitable will require more finesse than Elon Musk's "let's nuke Mars" plan, and has funded a couple of synbio projects which seek to provide "the means to produce food, medical supplies ...
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2015
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Two University of Wisconsin-Stout professors are taking their students to Mars.
Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2015
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