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launching a probe to Mars last month. Although India is still far behind, its efforts to reach a similar level are perceived indicative of the regional strategic benefits.
Behind them are huge posters of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory used a portfolio of design software made by Siemens to digitally design,
So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.
"This technology can potentially also help cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy and astronauts from chronic exposure to cosmic rays on their journey to Mars. s
Mars and VF Corporation said he new standards will reinforce what leading companies already know:
or search for such formations on Mars and other planets to determine where water once existed.
#Ice may explain odd craters on Mars Brown University right Original Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on August 6 2013brown (US) More than 600 double-layer craters on Mars may have been caused by debris
These distinctive craters were documented first in data returned from the Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s
Recent discoveries by planetary geoscientists at Brown and elsewhere have shown that the climate of Mars has varied in the past says James W. Head professor of geological science at Brown University.
During these times ice from the polar caps is redistributed into the mid-latitudes of Mars as a layer about 50 meters thick in the same place that we see that the DLES have formed.
or high latitudes areas where scientists believe there may once have been glacial ice on Mars. Ultimately understanding how DLES
and other crater types are formed could lead to a better understanding of Mars past. There are over 600 DLES on the Martian surface
so reconciling how they formed with our knowledge of the climate of Mars is pretty important Weiss says.
#New evidence suggests giant ocean on Mars CALTECH (US) esearchers have found signs of an ancient delta on Mars where a river might have emptied once into a vast ocean.
could have covered much of Mars northern hemispheretretching over as much as a third of the planet. cientists have hypothesized long that the northern lowlands of Mars are a dried-up ocean bottom,
Most of the northern hemisphere of Mars is flat and at a lower elevation than the southern hemisphere,
Researchers used new high-resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to study a 100-square-kilometer area that sits right on this possible former coastline.
of Mars, says Dibiase, lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
and that of othersncluding the Curiosity rovercientists are finding a rich sedimentary record on Mars that is revealing its past environments,
and potentially oceans, Lamb says. oth the ancient environments on Mars and the planet sedimentary archive of these environments are turning out to be surprisingly Earthlike.
such as the mountains of Mars or driving cross town in the rush hour. Source: Nissa s
Affectiva s clients include Unilever, Mars and Coca-cola. The advertising research agency Millward Brown#says it has used Affectiva s technology to test about 3, 000 ads for clients.
#Meteorite carries ancient water from Mars It may just look like your average rock, but in fact it's an extra-special delivery from the red planet.
Laboratory analysis has revealed that a specimen bought from a Moroccan meteorite dealer in 2011 is the first sample of Martian origin that is similar to the water-rich rocks examined by NASA s rovers.
when Mars is thought to have become colder and drier than it was originally. Carl Agee of the University of New mexico in Albuquerque and his colleagues report their findings from samples of the meteorite in Science online today1."
"Agee and his collaborators have thrown open the door to a whole new part of Mars, says planetary scientist Munir Humayun at Florida State university in Tallahassee,
is"the first of a new class of Martian meteorites that provides more direct clues to the surface history of Mars. Moreover,
as the fate of a long-delayed mission to bring samples of Mars back to Earth is still uncertain.
Several lines of evidence indicate that parts of Mars were warmer and wetter, and therefore a possible haven for carbon-based life, some 4 billion years ago.
That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand-in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites
and the presence of water in it suggests that crustal rocks on Mars interacted with surface water that was delivered by volcanic activity,
whether that water content truly reveals an abundance of surface water on Mars 2. 1 billion years ago awaits further study u
The exoplanet that previously held the record on the tiny end of the size spectrum#a Mars-size object known as Kepler 42 d#is nearly twice the diameter of Kepler 37 b. The newfound body is just 80 percent
Interaxon, the company behind the Muse headband and a Mars venture client, claims that sustained use of the device will train one brain to stay more naturally calm and focused.
as the poles of Mars and almost 200 degrees hotter than the surface of Venus. They can also detect temperature changes across distances as small as 5 m (roughly the size of a sperm cell head) and on timescales as short as 800 picoseconds(.
#Red planet racers: Next Mars rovers get a speed boost IT'S time for Martian rovers to put the pedal to the metal.
the Curiosity rover our best on the Red planet only covers about 200 metres per day. That's because when a rover encounters an obstacle it can't negotiate by itself it must wait for instructions from its minders On earth a huge waste of time.
In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
#Red planet racers: Next Mars rovers get a speed boost IT'S time for Martian rovers to put the pedal to the metal.
the Curiosity rover our best on the Red planet only covers about 200 metres per day. That's because when a rover encounters an obstacle it can't negotiate by itself it must wait for instructions from its minders On earth a huge waste of time.
In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
It's the same technology as on Mars she says. When it picks up trace amounts of methane it kind of sings to the operator
#Water-splitter could make hydrogen fuel on Mars Making fuel on site for a return trip to Mars may be a step closer.
or for making fuel on Mars to power a rocket back to Earth. It is unclear
and using rovers to look for microbes on Mars this search for extraterrestrial life is driving useful science.
and broke apart between Mars and Jupiter. The larger object spawned the cloud of L chondrites that bombarded Earth for about 10 million years.
Crater rocks could provide refuges even now for life on other planets such as Mars she says.
The results will hopefully prove handy for Musk who hopes to eventually shuttle humans on the long trip to Mars
#NASA'flying saucer'for Mars to land in Hawaii In June while beachgoers in Hawaii sit blissfully unaware a flying saucer will descend over the island of Kauai.
and one day people on the surface of Mars. The Low density supersonic decelerator (LDSD) will be lofted into the stratosphere from the US NAVY's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.
We really only have two options for stopping at Mars: rockets and aerodynamic drag. Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
But the heavier the load the harder it is to come in softly. For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
In addition to landing human missions on Mars the system could help robotic craft safely land in Martian mountains or highlands.
Think about it like a bridge for humans to Mars. This is the next step in a sequence of technologies that would need to be developed d
But NASA has plans for human missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars and getting home quickly won't be an option.
But what about our own future Mars colonies or space probes millions of kilometres away? Spacecraft currently use radio waves to beam information back home.
Laser communication is one of the technologies we are considering says Bas Lansdorp CEO of the Mars One project which aims to place a human colony on Mars by 2025.
and evolution of the moon is to know those of Earth says Tatsuaki Hashimoto of the Japan aerospace exploration agency the lead scientist for a proposed lunar rover called SELENE-2. The moon is thought to have coalesced from the debris of an impact between a Mars-sized world and Earth
If we're really interested in extending our reach to Mars and beyond we don't want to have to bring fuel with us says Anthony Colaprete of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field California.
#India blasts off for Mars: here's what it will Do it's the Mount everest of the solar system conquered only by an elite group.
and Europe in the exclusive club by sending a probe to Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission blasted off from the southeastern coast of India on 5 november.
The main goal of the $73 million Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is to prove that India can put a working probe into Mars orbit.
and radiation conditions at Mars he says. This was a problem for Chandrayaan-1 which discovered water on the lunar surface but died more than a year early
It will carry five scientific instruments including a methane sensor to try to pick up the gas in Mars's atmosphere.
On earth methane is produced mainly by life so there was a stir when Earth-based instruments and a European probe detected traces of it in Mars's atmosphere a decade ago.
or perhaps water in Mars's and recently NASA's Curiosity rover added to the scepticism by finding no methane when it breathed in the Martian air.
MOM may also help reveal how Mars became a cold dry planet with an atmosphere too thin to support liquid water for long periods.
A study published this week suggests a form of natural geoengineering was partially responsible for the red planet's global cooling.
For those looking beyond low Earth orbit Mars One is also continuing with its plans to send humans on a televised one-way mission to the Red planet by 2023.
Mars One does not yet have a craft capable of leaving Earth but CEO Bas Lansdorp says it plans to launch its first show in 2014 detailing the crew selection process.
but says Mars One will be different. This is much more serious than selecting a few people who are going to become pop stars it's more like The Apprentice.
or from human missions to Mars suggests LLCD manager Donald Cornwell. If you have an ill astronaut it would be nice to have a 3d image of them he says
and Mars to find out why some worlds lose their atmospheres while others manage to keep a grip on their gases.
So far our best clues to the original atmospheres of Mars and Venus come from the composition
Based on the evidence it seems that Mars Earth and Venus probably had similar atmospheres long ago.
And while Mars is farther away it has no global magnetic field. It is thought the solar wind thinned the Red planet's atmosphere over time making it cold and dry.
It turns out that most atmospheres have lost a lot of gas over their lifetimes. On Mars it may be as much as 99 per cent.
What drives the escaping is a big question says Schneider. Solar stripping is a leading hypothesis
For instance others have suggested that Mars lost its atmosphere all of a sudden during a powerful collision with an asteroid or comet.
A NASA probe called Maven due to launch in November will orbit Mars to study its atmosphere up close to try to solve the puzzle.
Sprint-A will help from afar by looking for the extreme UV radiation generated as the solar wind slams into the upper atmospheres of both Mars
So as long as the money holds out and political stability reigns they might well get to some place like Mars
#Curiosity's discoveries hint at life's cradle on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock much to everyone's surprise.
The scoop of grey powder contains definitive evidence that the Red planet was suited once to life.
All the signs are had that Mars plentiful slightly salty water that could have supported primitive microbes. The hope is that Mars can help us understand the origins of life
even if the planet's early transformation into a cold dry hostile world meant life never got started there.
Determining the habitability of Mars was Curiosity's chief goal when it landed in Gale crater in August 2012.
The thinking is that Mars would have had liquid water billions of years ago around the time Earth was playing host to early life.
But at some point Mars dried out and lost much of its atmosphere. The planet also only briefly had a magnetic field to protect its surface from cosmic radiation
But if microbes did exist on Mars traces of them may still be preserved on the cold dry world.
If we could find evidence primitive life got a start on Mars that could fill in a lot of gaps in our understanding of conditions on early Earth says Jeffrey Bada of the University of California in San diego. What we find on Mars won't be a magic bullet to say'Ah!
And even if no hints of microbes can be found Mars's habitable regions could still serve as snapshots of a prebiotic world frozen in time says Michael Meyer lead scientist for NASA's Mars exploration programme.
Mars may have preserved that history of what was going on what you might call proto-biology before life even got started he says.
Teams are expected to choose the science instruments by early 2014 based on recommendations from Mars researchers.
#Rover finds first life-friendly environment on Mars Microbes could have lived on Mars . Though we don't know yet
if they actually did NASA's Curiosity rover has found the first definitive evidence that the Red planet was suited once to life
Determining if Mars could have supported ever life was the rover's chief goal when it landed in Gale crater in August 2012.
All these clues point to ancient Mars hosting neutral slightly salty liquid water that could have supported primitive life.
The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument (SAM) also found carbon dioxide and hints of other carbon-based molecules in the drilled sample.
That would be a direct sign that something actually lived on the Red planet. These new hints of carbon are tantalising
Mars is going to pass behind the sun from Earth's perspective for the entire month of April blocking communications between the rover and mission control.
I have an image now of possibly a freshwater lake on a Mars with a thicker atmosphere maybe a snowcapped Mount Sharp said NASA science administrator John Grunsfeld.
The achievement could lay the groundwork for future Mars explorers to build structures or even to mine the Red planet.
This is the only time anybody's drilled into Mars says Louise Jandura of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena California chief engineer for Curiosity's sampling system.
what Mars was like 3 or 4 billion years ago. However it is not the first space drilling to take place.
Although Curiosity's digging into Mars has been extremely modest its achievement could lay the groundwork for construction and mining on the Red planet.
In a recent case study with Mars for example Affectiva found that the client s chocolate ads elicited the highest emotional engagement
Mars landers and orbiters gather much more information in the form of images for example than they can send back over the huge distance Mars is as much as 1000 times farther from Earth than the moon despite the incredible development of NASA s radio-based
He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews
Setting up shop on Phobos and Deimos Mars Titan Europa...Later on sky cities wafting through the Venusian atmosphere (oxygen is a lifting gas on that planet so technically a simple Nitrogen/Oxygen atmosphere
I want craft that can support bases on the Moon flag planting ceremonies on Mars Europa and Titan.
The Japan aerospace exploration agency sent the first of its new generation of launch vehicles into orbit carrying a telescope that will observe the atmospheres of Venus Mars and Jupiter.
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The probe set to collect samples from the Martian moon Phobos unsuccessfully aimed its course for Mars
Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation
what we have with maps of Mars and Mercury Sandwell says. We know more about these other planets than we know about the sea floor.
These robots would find it more difficult to survive a drop onto Mars since the red planet has both a thinner atmosphere
and stronger gravity than Titan meaning they would reach a higher terminal velocity. But maybe a simple parachute could slow them down enough for a safe landing Sunspiral says.
by the time humans are ready to colonize Mars Robonaut doctors will be there to lend a healing hand d
#Water flows on Mars Potentially life-giving water still flows across the ancient surface of Mars from time to time,
NASA researchers using an imager aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed the watery flows by looking at light waves returned from seasonal dark streaks on the surface,
but also help keep it from boiling off in the thin atmosphere of Mars, the researchers said.
lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The researchers'findings are in a new paper being presented this week at the European Planetary Science Congress in France.
This is not the first discovery of water on Mars. Researchers have known for many years that Mars has frozen water at its poles, in its thin atmosphere,
Nor is it the first potential clue that Mars could have once --or may still--host life.
The Mars Curiosity rover, for instance, has detected methane on the surface of Mars, as well as other chemical signatures suggesting the possibility of past or present life.
but researcher Mary Beth Wilhelm said the results suggest"more habitable conditions on the near surface of Mars than previously thought."
But Alfred Mcewen, who heads up NASA's Hirise high-resolution camera aboard the Mars orbiter,
said he's fairly confident life will one day be found on Mars."It's very likely,
that there's life somewhere in the crust of Mars, microbes, "he said. Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA, said the discovery announced Monday puts NASA in a perfect position to look for that life."
a great opportunity to be in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that
and crevasses on the moon or Mars. He says the next generation of devices will have specific applications,
The Synthetic Muscle could be used in robotics in deep space travel such as travel to Mars because of its radiation resistance."
"From there the next step might be to use it on a mission to Mars."Early Connection with PPPLRASMUSSEN began working with PPPL in 2007 just four years after she started Ras Labs. She received her first patent for a synthetic muscle in 1998.
and was equivalent to a trip from earth to Mars and back. A second test of 45 hours was enough to be equivalent to a trip to Jupiter
and measuring features on the surface of the southern polar region of Mars . If space exploration isn your thing,
Instead of scouring the surface of Mars, Tomnod users crowdsource observations about the Earth surface. When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing,
#Nasa Finds Liquid Water On Mars In a Mars-related press conference this morning NASA has announced that nder certain circumstancesliquid water has been found on Mars. ars is not the dry arid planet that we thought of in the past,
Previously it was known that H20 existed on Mars in the form of ice but scientists had thought the atmosphere of Mars was too thin for liquid water to be possible.
The scientists used a spectroscopy technique to analyze the chemical composition of dark streaks (which NASA refers to as Recurring Slope Lineae
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
NASA landed its Curiosity rover on Mars back in August 2012 and the bot has been exploring the surface
The presence of perchlorate in the Martian soil improves the stability of liquid water on the surface of Mars,
great opportunities to be in the right locations on Mars to thoroughly investigate that, said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA.
The presence of liquid water on Mars could also help any future human mission to the planet
added Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
#Signs of liquid water found on surface of Mars, scientists say Despite its reputation as a forebodingly dusty, desolate and lifeless place,
Mars seems to be a little bit wet even today. Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars,
a finding that will fuel speculation that life, if it ever arose there, could persist to now."
"said Alfred S Mcewen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
"Although young Mars was inundated by rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean a few billion years ago,
In 2011, Mcewen and colleagues discovered in photographs from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter dark streaks descending along slopes of craters, canyons and mountains.
The average temperature of Mars is about minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, but summer days near the Equator can reach an almost balmy 70.
but measurements indicate very low humidity on Mars only enough for 10 microns or about 1/2, 500th of an inch,
and its presence raises the question of whether Mars, which appears so dry and barren, could possess niches of habitability for microbial Martians.
"Even though RSLS appear to be some of the most intriguing features on Mars, no one is likely to get a close up look any time soon.
and Nasa worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. Of the spacecraft Nasa has sent to Mars,
#Ancient Mars had long-lasting lakes, rivers: Nasa Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3. 8 to 3. 3 billion years ago,
boosting the odds that life may have existed once on the Red planet, scientists, including one of Indian-origin,
have found. Using data from the Curiosity rover, Nasa's Mars science laboratory/Curiosity team has determined that, long ago,
The findings build upon previous work that suggested there were ancient lakes on Mars, and add to the unfolding story of a wet Mars, both past and present.
Last month, Nasa scientists confirmed current water flows on Mars."It's clear that the Mars of billions of years ago more closely resembled Earth than it does today.
Our challenge is to figure out how this more clement Mars was even possible, and what happened to that wetter Mars,
"said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars Exploration Program at Nasa Headquarters in Washington.
Before Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists proposed that Gale crater had filled with layers of sediments.
Some hypotheses were"dry, "suggesting that sediment accumulated from windblown dust and sand. Others focused on the possibility that sediment layers were deposited in ancient lakes.
The latest results indicate that these wetter scenarios were correct for the lower portions of Mount Sharp.
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