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The frozen DNA of Martian life?
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Such deposits might provide a delicate window into the…
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Mars
June 2015
March 2015
NewsScience
Mysterious dust cloud and aurora spotted around Mars.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed two unexpected phenomena in the Martian atmosphere: an unexplained high-altitude dust cloud and…
NewsScience
Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean . . . from wet world to dead planet.
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures…
December 2014
NewsScience
NASA Rover discovers active Organics 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…
March 2014
NewsScifi
Mars (2010) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
When new life may or may not have been discovered by a robot probe on Mars, three very ordinary people are sent to…
December 2013
NewsScifi
The Last Days on Mars (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Filmmaker Ruairi Robinson’s derivative danger-in-space sci-fi thriller ‘The Days On Mars’ not only sports an uneventful movie title but lacks any distinctive pizzazz to its…
September 2013
NewsScience
NASA to Mars: Who (or ‘what’) is hiding the methane now?
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by…
May 2013
NewsScience
Bad news for Mars colonists – expect to be nuked.
Measurements taken by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the…
March 2013
NewsScience
Life on ancient Mars? Could be, says NASA, after amazing discovery.
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen,…
NewsScience
Flood channels of Mars.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels…
NewsCulture
Life on Mars… citizen, it’s good!
From the talented hand of Lukas Vojir comes this retro-propaganda look at living large on Mars. Sounds a little better than that tin…
February 2013
NewsScience
Drilling on Mars… what the heck will they discover?
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a…