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Initial study finds red planet Mars once had large water ocean

Mar 7, 2015

NASA has revealed that there was a point in time when the surface of Mars was almost a quarter covered with water. According to scientist from the space agency, the ocean was so large it had a depth of one mile...

Black Beauty Martian meteorite akin to Red Planet’s Dark Plains

Ally Stackhouse

Feb 1, 2015

Innovation

The latest Martian meteorite discovery which has been christened as black beauty could be sample from major background of rocks on the surface of Mars. The rock in question is the 4.4 billion-year-old space ...

Life on Mars: Women suit better

Christian Bloss

Oct 21, 2014

Innovation

Karen Greene, one of the six people who lived in a simulated Mass camp on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano for four months, says the first visitors to the Red Planet should be women. The “astronauts” lived as colonis...

Comet Siding Spring makes astronomical history as it passes by Mars

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 20, 2014

Innovation

At 126,000 mph, Comet Siding Spring whizzed past Mars. Its core of ice and dust barely missed the Red Planet. Siding spring is the cosmic leftover of the planet-building process, veered 16 times closer to Mars ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover wheels having wear and tear

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover starts a “scientific sequel” by rovering the Martian Mountain

Charles Omedo

Sep 12, 2014

Innovation

The NASA’s Curiosity rover wheels are experiencing wear and tear after navigating the Red Planet’s terrain on Mars, prompting the handlers to change its route to another area that was initially unplanned for it...

ChemCam Captures Images of Sparks Flying as NASA’s Curiosity Rover Laser Blasts Rocks on Mars

Platonium

Jul 19, 2014

Innovation

MARS - Sparks started to fly after the 1-ton Curiosity Rover’s laser-sampling Chemistry and Camera instrument known as ChemCam fired its laser at a baseball size rock. NASA’s Curiosity Rover has fired 600 di...

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