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Martian meteorite may contain evidence of extraterrestrial life
NASA rover Curiosity is beavering away up on Mars, examining rocks, drilling holes, checking out the weather -- but it's not just up there to look at the planet's hospitability for humans. It's also looking for conditions favourable for life; not now, but in the past, when Mars may have been home to extraterrestrial microbes. But maybe the answer is right here on Earth, after all -- in the form of a meteorite.
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Orion, Dragons and Dream Chasers: What’s behind Modern Spaceship Design?
As NASA prepares for the debut test flight of the first spaceship in more than 40 years to carry astronauts beyond Earth, a fleet of privately owned vehicles is in development to take over transportation services to and from orbits closer to home.
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Mars rover 'solves mountain riddle'
Scientists working on Nasa's Curiosity rover think they can now explain why there is a huge mountain at the robot's landing site in Mars's Gale Crater. They believe it is the remains of sediments laid down in successive lakes that filled the deep bowl, probably over tens of millions of years. Only later did winds dig out an encircling plain to expose the 5km-high peak we see today.
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NASA Rover Finds Active, Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.
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NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in ...
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Researchers propose ballistic capture as cheaper path to Mars
(Phys.org)—Space scientists Francesco Topputo and Edward Belbruno are proposing in a paper they have written and uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the idea of using ballistic capture as a means of getting to Mars, rather than the traditional Hohmann transfer approach.
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Nasa to hack 'amnesiac' Mars rover
Mars rover Opportunity, which has been exploring the Red Planet for more than 10 years, is suffering from memory problems, Nasa has said. The six-wheeled vehicle - not to be confused with Curiosity, which launched in 2011 - keeps resetting unexpectedly. The Opportunity team thinks an age-related fault affecting the flash memory used by the robot is to blame.
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Meteorite from Mars reveals further clues about atmosphere’s history
The Martian atmosphere has been losing carbon since the Noachian era.
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NASA’s MAVEN charts a disappearing Martian atmosphere
Finds streams of solar wind particles that penetrate deep into the atmosphere.
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Breaking News: DRACULA Found On Mars
The resemblence of a Martian rock to a coffin has got UFO enthusiasts excited, with some demanding that NASA stop studying Martian geology until Curiosity has checked the object out.
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Growing greens on the Red Planet
When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society have their way, it cou...
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Tiny Greenhouse Could Fly Plants to Mars in 2018
Lifeforms from Earth may touch down on Mars just a few years from now — but those interplanetary travelers would be plants, not people. A tiny, self-contained greenhouse has been selected to fly on the robotic lander that Red Planet colonization effort Mars One intends to launch in 2018, group representatives announced Monday. The greenhouse experiment, known as Seed, was one of 35 proposed lander science payloads submitted by university groups around the world.
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Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos
A new paper details the striking similarities between ancient sedimentary rocks on Mars and structures shaped by microbes on Earth.
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Curiosity has discovered organic matter on Mars
The Curiosity rover has found and analysed the first definitively identified piece of organic matter on the surface of Mars. These organic molecules, consisting primarily of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, are the building blocks of all life on Earth. However, it is important to note that these molecules may not have come from life forms on Mars -- organic molecules can be created from chemical processes that do not involve life, NASA said.
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Lost Beagle2 probe found on Mars
The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact. High-resolution images taken from orbit have identified its landing location, and it looks to be in one piece.
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Hilltop Panorama Marks Mars Rover's 11th Anniversary
A panorama from one of the highest elevations that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached in its 11 years on Mars includes the U.S. flag at the summit.
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Spacecraft's Double-Take Reveals Changes on Mars
Here today, gone tomorrow; a bright layer of frost lining a crater wall is vanquished by the springtime sun -- and seen by a NASA Mars satellite high overhead.
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NASA might put a drone on Mars
Drones, and autonomous helicopters in particular, seem to be quite the buzzing technology these days. But could they be headed to Mars, too? Engineers have gotten pretty good at putting rovers on Mars -- and making them so they last a long, long time. As of this weekend, the Opportunity rover has outlived its primary mission length by 44 times. But one of the reasons that longevity is so critical? Mars has rocky, uneven terrain. It takes a long time for a wheeled rover to traverse a...
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This is how NASA makes the rocket boosters that will take us to Mars
This video shows how NASA makes and tests their largest, and most powerful solid rocket boosters ever. These engineering beauties will propel the new Space Launch System (SLS) and its astronauts to deeper space explorations. Mars, here we go.
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Martian Panorama
A panorama taken by the Mars Rover from on top of a rock outcrop called Greeley Haven
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