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Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth's Arctic Ocean

Mar 06, 2015 (JPL)

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatur...

Mars: The Planet that Lost an Ocean's Worth of Water

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planet's surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth...

Single Site on Mars Advanced for 2016 NASA Lander

Mar 05, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's next mission to Mars, scheduled to launch one year from today to examine the Red Planet's deep interior and investigate how rocky planets like Earth evol...

Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover

Mar 05, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 th...

New Flight Software to Fix Memory Issues is Onboard Rover

Mar 03, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 492 feet (150 meters) a...

Curiosity confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the con...

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Drills at 'Telegraph Peak'

Feb 27, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its drill on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to collect sample powder from inside a rock target called "Telegraph Peak." The target sits in th...

How Can We Protect Mars From Earth, While Searching For Life

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

The search for life on Mars presents us with many challenges - not the least of which is microbial contamination. How do we ensure that microbes from Earth don'...

The Search For Volcanic Eruptions On Mars Reaches The Next Level

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

A new study of emissions from Martian volcanoes suggests there is no activity going on right now, but researchers aren't ruling out recent eruptions. Using NASA...

Using Curiosity to Search for Life

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

Scientist Pamela Conrad helps give Curiosity a daily to-do list to look for life's building blocks on Mars. In GSFC's continuing series of "Conversations With G...

Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' Site on Mount Sharp

Feb 25, 2015 (JPL)

This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp. T...

Surviving Mars on Earth

Feb 24, 2015 (SPX)

Meet the man who has survived Mars on Earth. Diego Urbina, an Italian-Colombian engineer, was a part of 520-day, record-breaking simulated mission to the Red Pl...

Mystery Mars plume baffles scientists

Feb 20, 2015 (ESA)

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet. On two separate occasions in ...

The highest plume ever observed on Mars

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

In the thin, cold, dry atmosphere of Mars the winds blow and raise the dust from the surface to an altitude of about 50 km. In its core thin clouds of ice and c...

MAVEN Completes First Deep Dip Campaign

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the ...

Mars hills hide icy past

Feb 20, 2015 (ESA)

A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice. Phlegra Montes stretches...

Up, Up and Away! First Humans Chosen for Mission to Mars

Feb 20, 2015 (Sputnik)

One hundred people from around the world have been shortlisted for a mission to Mars. Fifty men and fifty women are all hoping to become the first human beings ...

Latest Drive Puts Rover Within Marathon-Distance Record

Feb 20, 2015 (JPL)

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 656 feet (20...

Mars One cuts list of potential colonists to 100

Feb 17, 2015 (UPI)

Dutch interplanetary exploration startup Mars One has further narrowed down the list of potential colonists from over 202,000 to just 100. "I got one step close...

Scientists fail to explain strange plumes spotted on Martian surface

Feb 16, 2015 (UPI)

In 2012, dozens of amateur astronomers spotted large plumes of dust rising off the surface of Mars. More than two years later, scientists still don't have a sui...