News articles tagged with 'Mars' (Page 3)
NASA's hibernating Mars rover may not call home
— 31 Jul 2010 09:38 | AstronomyNASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian…
Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms roughly 4 billion years ago
— 30 Jul 2010 09:49 | AstronomyA new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region…
Martian dust devil whirls into Opportunity's view
— 29 Jul 2010 10:16 | AstronomyIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the…
Giant antenna propped up, ready for joint replacement
— 15 Jul 2010 15:10 | AstronomyWorkers at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., have been making precise, laser-assisted measurements to ensure a flat surface for pouring new grout as part of a…
Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
— 28 Jun 2010 15:11 | AstronomyWhen Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby. Stretching across 190…
Wet era on early Mars was global
— 26 Jun 2010 13:07 | AstronomyConditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern…
Brown team finds widespread glacial meltwater valleys on Mars
— 25 Jun 2010 12:26 | AstronomyPlanetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars - frozen and liquid - in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is…
New CU-Boulder study indicates an ancient ocean may have covered one-third of Mars
— 14 Jun 2010 04:37 | AstronomyA vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists…
Could life survive on Mars? Yes, expert says
— 5 Jun 2010 15:42 | AstronomyResearchers at McGill's department of natural resources, the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto and the SETI Institute have discovered that methane-eating…
NASA rover finds clue to Mars' past and environment for life
— 4 Jun 2010 17:46 | AstronomyRocks examined by NASA's Spirit Mars Rover hold evidence of a wet, non-acidic ancient environment that may have been favourable for life. Confirming this mineral clue took four years…