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Popular Mechanics
January 2009
Michael Milstein |
World's Hardiest Organisms to Face 3 Years in Space When a Russian spacecraft sets off late this year to scrape samples of the Martian moon Phobos, at least 10 of Earth's toughest life-forms will be going along for the ride.   |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2015 |
Getting the measure of Mars Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying the history -- and habitability -- of our neighboring planet, as Andy Extance discovers. |
Salon.com
June 29, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system... |
Chemistry World
April 15, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Mars meteor gets a boost of youth A Martian meteorite that has played a pivotal role in our understanding of the Solar System has been found to be half a billion years younger than previously thought, say US researchers. |
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
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. |
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? |
Scientific American
November 2007
Robert Zubrin |
Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake. |
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 |
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? |
Wired
December 2004
Kim Stanley Robinson |
Taming the Red Planet Terraforming Mars - grafting an Earth-like atmosphere and ecology onto that rocky and poisonous planet - remains a great idea that is likely to become one of the supreme engineering projects of humankind. |
Popular Mechanics
December 3, 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Why I Hope There's No Life on Mars If Mars is lifeless, that will make exploring -- and later settling -- the planet much easier. |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 2, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Curiosity -- searching in vain? On 6 August, if all goes to plan, NASA's Curiosity probe will touch down on a rocky crater close to the Martian equator. Its main mission objective is to look for signs of habitability |
Wired
December 2004
Brendan I. Koerner |
NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Leslie Sabbagh |
Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Mission 'Definitely' Finds Water Ice on Mars: Update The Phoenix mission will be extended, but team leaders aren't sure how long the lander will last, so they're gathering as much information and evidence on Mars as possible. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Early Life Lines Make Waves Life on Earth just got a little older. New evidence from an ancient rock formation in Australia is bolstering one side of a long-standing debate: that the earliest life on Earth helped shape thousands of finely-layered sediment mounds within the rock. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Blow to Hopes for Life on Mars Organic molecules found on rocks from Mars may not be the remnants of ancient Martian microbes after all. |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Sara Pratt |
Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars. |
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
May 2003 |
Martian Field Trips on Earth Many researchers look to Earth for examples of or contrasts to what we're seeing of the Red 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
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater. |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Erin Biba |
Set to Roll in 2009: The All-New Bigger, Badder-Ass Mars Rover The Mars Science Laboratory is nuclear powered and packed with gadgets never before seen on the Red Planet. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
As Phoenix Mission Ends, Project Leaders Chart Mars Future The Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the harsh martian winter brings its death, said the project's science leader, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. |
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. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Sally Adee |
Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System A team of NASA researchers recently reported finding organic material in Tagish Lake meteorite fragments that pre-dates the solar system. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
Popular Mechanics
August 5, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
NASA, Scientists Not Ready to Give Up on Martian Life Despite today's findings of toxic perchlorate in Martian soil, NASA is not ready to write off life on Mars. Leading space scientists point to earthbound extremeophiles that process the substance. |
Wired
December 2004
Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 4, 2014
Andy Extance |
Next Mars rover will make oxygen from CO 2 Nasa's Mars 2020 rover will take a small step towards helping us directly explore the red planet, by studying how to convert its carbon dioxide atmosphere to oxygen. |
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
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Curiosity's 1-Ton Touchdown The Mars rover will rely on dead reckoning and radar to land on the Red Planet |
Geotimes
November 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Airing Out an Early Atmosphere Scientists have generally thought that oxygen was scarce in Earth's atmosphere until about 2.4 billion years ago. Now a study based on new evidence suggests that oxygen may actually have been around longer than previously thought. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
NASA Equips Phoenix Mars Lander with Latest Electronics NASA engineers readied the Phoenix Mars Lander for a mission to Mars's arctic landscape with an array of advanced electronics. These research tools will aid in NASA's first exploration of a potential Martian habitat. |
