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Chemistry World February 19, 2015 Katrina Kramer	Mars 3-D Having previously only had a vague interest in the Mars missions, Nasa investigator Jim Bell's book certainly got me hooked.
T.H.E. Journal June 2006	Online Learning Students in grades 5-12 can explore the surface of Mars this summer with World Book's special online feature, "Exploring the Red Planet," dedicated to the 2003 series of missions to Mars.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars Update: Opportunity lands Two rovers now inhabit Mars, after the latest of NASA's robot explorers, Opportunity, landed safely over the weekend. Following a brief hiccup last week when its twin went momentarily silent, Opportunity touched down on Saturday night, half a planet away from Spirit.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Daniel H. Wilson	Spirit, NASA Martian Exploration Rover, Dies at 6 (Earth Years) The Spirit Rover, which explored the surface of Mars for over half a decade, discovering pivotal evidence of the past existence of water, was consigned to her final resting place.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
Science News September 11, 2004	Exploring Mars At its Marsoweb site, NASA provides detailed maps, engineering data, and interactive tools for studying the Red Planet's alien terrain.
Smithsonian May 2005 Carl Zimmer	Life on Mars? It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars geologist in action After a successful landing close to midnight EST last Saturday, the Mars exploration rover Spirit has been sending back information to its human tenders, in Pasadena, Calif.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars update: a pixel at a time The two rovers on Mars are on the move. Spirit, after 10-day lapse in memory, now functions again after efforts by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Its twin explorer, Opportunity, has been traveling in its own crater, halfway around the planet.
Chemistry World December 19, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive.
Car and Driver December 2006 Aaron Robinson	Mars Rover. Rover and Out. After 300 million miles, NASA coaxes a few more feet from its $820 million beaters.
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick	Traveling on Mars Over the past nine months, Mars' twin rovers have delivered amazing photographs and data to Earth, and now the first published science findings have appeared.
Science News September 20, 2003	More Mars -- Better than Ever On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth were closer to each other than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. Even as Earth and Mars slowly draw apart, the Red Planet remains a dazzling sight in the night sky. There's still time to take in the view.
Geotimes June 2003	NASA cautiously raises "Spirit" to Mars And they're off! Well, one of them is anyway. As far as getting the new Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) up through the atmosphere and out past the thermosphere is concerned, NASA has hit its half-way mark.
Scientific American November 2005 David Grinspoon	Making Tracks on Mars Book Reviews: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres... Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley...
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge	NASA's New Rover to Looks for More Water on Mars The robot invasion of Mars will continue when the unmanned Phoenix Mars Lander touches down in the planet's northern polar region next year. I
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA: "There Is Liquid Water Today On The Surface Of Mars" This is huge news for space agencies worldwide, and could make it easier to look for signs of life on the red planet.
Geotimes July 2005 Naomi Lubick	Mars' Lost Landers Researchers working with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor announced that they may have found something they've been looking for: the sites where two Mars landers settled, several decades apart.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Robotic Field Geologists Take to Mars Next month, the first of two twin robotic geologists will head to the Red Planet, armed with a suite of tools for conducting geology on the harsh Martian surface.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
Scientific American August 2008 Philip Yam	New Close-Ups on Mars, Courtesy of Phoenix The Mars Phoenix lander became Earth's sixth successful visitor to the surface of the Red Planet.
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick	Evidence for Water on Mars Flows Scientists have further confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun. And exploration continues to see further signs of water on Mars, from the ground to the sky.
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi	Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole.
Geotimes August 2003 Matt Shindell	Mars Express for geologists Although Mars Express largely relies on old technologies, in many ways replicating past experiments, it can only contribute to an ever-growing body of knowledge about the early history of Mars and its water, and the processes that shape the planet today.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Mars Gets Broadband Connection NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with its onboard Electra UHF relay transceiver, will serve as an engineering test bed for new communications and navigation technology.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ice in a Martian Desert The two Mars rover missions have come together in the past few weeks to produce a more complete view of Mars' water history that has implications for life on the planet, though pieces of that picture are still contentious.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.
Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Molten martian core The more researchers study Mars, the more similarities they seem to find between the Red Planet and Earth. The latest parallels come from the planet's enigmatic interior.
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	A Toastier Mars Mars may currently be too chilly for human colonists, but a University of Arizona student named Rigel Woida is out to change that.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	More on Mars The last few months have held many new discoveries on Mars, including new images of the planet's landslides, caves and polar geysers from the Mars rover, which are giving scientists a closer look at the red planet than ever before.
Popular Mechanics October 26, 2009 Tyghe Trimble	NASA's Orbiter Captures Strange Martian Tattoo Image These ornate markings were created by dust devils
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone.
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Mars Had Explosive, Watery Past NASA's Mars rover Spirit hit a grand slam this spring when it rolled across Home Plate, a plateau feature on Mars that revealed clues supporting an explosive past for the planet.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Water clues from martian carbonates For the first time, scientists have convincingly detected small yet possibly widespread amounts of carbonate minerals in the dust on Mars' surface. The findings provide new hints about water on Mars, as well as the history of the planet's atmosphere.
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Martian Pole Boasts Icy Detail A new map of Mars' south pole revealed that the ice cap is composed almost entirely of water ice and measures up to 3.7 kilometers thick.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
Wired July 2001 Tom McNichol	The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars...
Geotimes March 2004	Standing water on Mars Following on the heels of an announcement two weeks ago that researchers had found direct evidence for groundwater on Mars, the Mars Exploration Rover team said yesterday that they have found evidence for standing water on the planet's surface.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Orbiter Tracks Changes on Mars NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars, continues to observe the Martian landscape.
Adventure February 2006 Michael Benoist	Living It: Our Man on Mars NASA's planetary scientist Steve Squyres talks about a new book, a big movie, and what it's like to road trip the Red Planet.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results.
Chemistry World April 6, 2011 Mike Brown	Mars chemistry reveals how red planet cooled The chemistry of volcanic rock on Mars offers a picture of the thermal history of the planet, according to scientists in France. The findings could provide a reference point for the evolution of other planets, they say.
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 Tony Hoffman	The Cyborg Astrobiologist When astronauts someday explore Mars, they may wear artificial-intelligence devices to help them spot unusual geological features and maybe even signs of life.
Fast Company David Lumb	NASA Wants Your Ideas For A Mars Colony The challenge asks for written submissions detailing what astronaut-explorers will need to colonize a new planet -- and the space agency is offering a total of $15,000 in prize money, to be split between three winners.
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye	NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Spacesuit, Snowsuit Red Planet simulations are meant to simulate as closely as possible what living and working on Mars would be like. But sometimes the illusion is broken. Snow doesn't fall on Mars, but nearby Hanksville, Utah, averages 15 centimeters per year.
Geotimes March 2004	NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2005 Rich Smith	Bang, Zoom, to the Moon! Space Adventures announced that it will partner with Russia's federal space agency to send two lucky (and wealthy) individuals on a two-week voyage to the stars and back. This is how hot new markets are born.
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland	Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.