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Mars One Selects Lockheed Martin to Study First Private Unmanned Mission to Mars

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

Mars One has selected Lockheed Martin to develop a mission concept study for its Mars lander spacecraft. The lander will be based on the successful 2007 NASA Ph...

First Rock Dating Experiment Performed on Mars

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments-like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks-have always ...

NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

Dec 13, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a litt...

SwRI scientists publish first radiation measurements from the surface of Mars

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

In the first 300 days of the Mars Science Laboratory surface mission, the Curiosity rover cruised around the planet's Gale Crater, collecting soil samples and i...

SSTL selected for first private Mars mission

Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected to carry out a concept study to develop an interplanetary communications system for Mars One, the priva...

Mars One spaceflight project 'can succeed'

Dec 11, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

A permanent human colony may be established on Mars in the nearest future. Under the Mars One spaceflight project first four Martians are expected to land on th...

MRO Reveals A More Dynamic Red Planet

Dec 11, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings -- possibly due to salty water - that advance seasonally down slopes surpris...

Bid to colonize Mars wins high-profile backing

Dec 10, 2013 (AFP)

A Dutch entrepreneur's bold quest to colonize Mars won high-profile support Tuesday from a US aerospace giant, although the timetable for putting humans on the ...

Opportunity ascending Solander Point at rim of Endeavour Crater

Dec 10, 2013 (JPL)

The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. In place for the long Thanksgiving Holiday, Opportunity conducted some in-sit...

One-way ticket to Mars: space colonists wanted!

Dec 10, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Bas Lansdorp, the founder of Mars One colony project, believes that in about a decade from now a colony of people from the Earth will appear on Mars. Experts co...

Mars lake may have been friendly to microbes: NASA

Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)

A US space agency rover tooling around on the surface of Mars has found remnants of an ancient freshwater lake that may have supported tiny life forms, scientis...

Rover results include first age and radiation measurements on Mars

Dec 09, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. space rover Curiosity is providing critical information about Mars' past and present to help plan future missions, NASA officials said. In a little mor...

Martian Laser Surpasses 100,000 Zaps

Dec 07, 2013 (SPX)

The ChemCam laser instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity rover fired its 100,000th shot recently, chronicling its adventures on Mars with a coffee-table-book's wort...

Mangalyaan Reaches First Distance Milestone On Route To Mars

Dec 07, 2013 (SPX)

Indian's first Mars Orbiter Mission - Mangalyaan - might be a long way from its target, but it has already gone further than any spacecraft India has previously...

Opportunity Rover Robotic Arm Within Reach of Rock Outcrop

Dec 05, 2013 (JPL)

Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. O...

MAVEN Performs First Trajectory Correction Maneuver

Dec 05, 2013 (JPL)

MAVEN mission controllers performed a successful trajectory correction maneuver, also known as a TCM. Post-maneuver data review shows that TCM-1 went according ...

ExoMars program marks critical milestone for ESA and Russia

Dec 04, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Cooperation with Russia comprises practically all areas of the European Space Agency's (ESA) space activities. Several months ago the ESA and Russian federal sp...

Deep Space Perils For Indian Spacecraft

Dec 01, 2013 (SPX)

There's no turning back. India's Mars Orbiter Mission has left Earth orbit and is heading for the red planet. After a flourish of media coverage before and shor...

Curiosity Resumes Science After Analysis of Voltage Issue

Nov 27, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed full science operations on Saturday, Nov. 23. Activities over the weekend included use of Curiosity's robotic arm to deliver...

How Habitable Is Mars? A New View of the Viking Experiments

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

Almost 40 years ago, two NASA probes on the surface of Mars scooped the soil in search of signs of microbes. The results that came back from the twin Viking mis...