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Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2010
Jeremy Jacquot |
The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011.   |
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. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
No Lake on Mars? NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team says that the presence of standing water in Mars' geologic past can account for the geologic features and chemistry found in some places there. A group of geologists, however, is now challenging that idea. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science |
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. |
Geotimes
May 2003
Golombek et al. |
Landing the Mars Exploration Rovers Deciding where on Mars to land each of the two exploration rovers has occupied more than two years of research and analysis. With the help of the planetary sciences community, mission planners have narrowed the field from hundreds to just two. |
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. |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2012
Laura Howes |
No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone. |
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. |
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
December 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
No Lake on Mars? A group of geologists is contesting the idea that the landing location of the Mars rover Opportunity is the site of an evaporated lake, a debate that will not dry up anytime soon. |
Scientific American
November 2007
Robert Zubrin |
Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake. |
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. |
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. |
Scientific American
December 19, 2005
George Musser |
Martian Claymation An ancient, watery Mars was not always an acid bath -- water-related clay minerals show up in the Nili Fossae/Syrtis Major region on the planet. |
Scientific American
May 8, 2006
Graham P. Collins |
Chaos in the Crater Welcome to the Vredefort Crater, a real Bermuda Triangle about 100 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. It is the oldest and largest impact remnant on the planet, created by an asteroid about two billion years ago. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
May 27, 2008
Andrew Kessler |
After 'Hole-in-One' Landing, Phoenix Mission Control Digs Ahead Though mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab may have temporarily been at the helm of the Phoenix Mars Lander, it's the science team here at the University of Arizona that will steer the rest of the landmark mission. |
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... |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 2007
Richard Corfield |
Makeshift to Mars The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. How NASA's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach. |
Popular Mechanics
May 27, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Cheers as Mars x-ray spectrometer delivers rock data Space scientists are celebrating the arrival of the first set of data from the Mars Curiosity Rover's alpha-particle x-ray spectrometer -- APXS -- which has analyzed the chemical composition of a small triangular wedge of rock on the surface of the planet. |
Wired
September 2002 |
Destination: Mars Where would you stake your claim on the great desert planet? Oliver Morton, author of the new book Mapping Mars, asks the experts. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Megan Sever |
Sizing up a Crater New modeling of the impact of an Eocene extraterrestrial projectile in what is now the Chesapeake Bay shows that it was smaller than previously thought, and could help better predict the effects of future potential impacts. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 14, 2009
Dan Carney |
Off-Roaders Offer Tips for Getting NASA's Spirit Out of Mars Sand NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, has been stuck in Martian sand since May. Professional off-road racers weigh in on how to get the vehicle unstuck. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 16, 2008
Matthew Hutson |
5 Projects Ask if Life on Earth Began as Alien Life in Space For years, scientists have considered the possibility of exogenesis, the idea that life arrived on Earth from another planet, and not just the building blocks of life, but organisms that were ready to rock and roll when they arrived. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Morgan Lord |
NASA Builds World's Largest Space Parachute for Martian Landing When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover lands on Mars in 2012, it will face a unique obstacle |
Geotimes
July 2003
Matt Shindell |
NASA's Opportunity finally knocks Waiting for a NASA launch can sometimes be like waiting for Godot. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
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. |
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? |
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. |
