Topic: Mars Exploration
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Man and Mars through history
A look back over centuries at man's attempt to uncover information about the 'Red Planet.'Sources: NASA, American Museum of Natural History, and Scientific American
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Beyond SpaceX: Five companies seeking to change space travel
During the past 10 years, Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have directed NASA to turn the job of transporting cargo and crew to the space station over to the private sector. As that process gathers pace, here is a list of the key players.
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Five places we might find life in our own solar system
Life on Earth occupies some bizarre places – pools of pitch, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and lightless lakes buried under glaciers. While scientists hunt for hospitable planets circling other stars, the solar system has a few candidates. Here are five.
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David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books
The late great novelist David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books.
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In Pictures: Timeline of American rockets
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78,000 to live on Mars: Have you signed up?
78,000 people have applied to live on Mars. Up to 3,000 will make the first cut, and the 28-40 finalists will spend seven years training before 4 finally get selected for a one-way trip to live on Mars.
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Spring break over, Curiosity rover goes back to work
Curiosity's one-month spring vacation, caused by Mars slipping behind the sun, is now over. "Can you hear me now? Conjunction is over," tweeted Curiosity's handlers today.
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Mars One will look for — and hide from — life on Mars
Mars One plans to put four astronaut-explorers on Mars by 2023, but they will take steps to avoid contaminating any lifeforms already on Mars.
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Ready for a one-way trip to Mars?
A Dutch company wants to send four people, selected via reality-show-style elimination, on a permanent trip to the Red Planet in 2022.
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Mars sand dunes may hint at water beneath
The discovery, based on research in Alaska, opens a window on processes at play early in Mars' history, when it hosted an environment that could have harbored microbial life.
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Curiosity rover snaps images of huge Martian mountain
NASA has assembled a view of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp from dozens of telephoto images snapped by the Curiosity Mars rover.
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Curiosity Mars rover suffers another glitch, remains in safe mode
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has put its scientific exploration on hold while it deals with a minor software problem.
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Did life on Earth originate on Mars?
Rock samples gathered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest that the Red Planet could have supported microbial life at about the same time that life first appeared on Earth, meaning that any life on Mars, if there was any, could have predated, and possibly even seeded, life on Earth.
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Curiosity hits 'pay dirt': Mars was habitable, evidence suggests (+video)
The Mars rover Curiosity analyzed the inside of a rock it drilled and found that the sample was likely formed in standing water 'so benign' you likely could have drunk it, researchers say.
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Ancient Mars could have been habitable, says NASA
A Martian rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover suggests that the Red Planet could have supported living microbes in its ancient past, says NASA.
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Mars flooding: Ancient mega-flood on Red Planet revealed in 3D
Mars flooding: The discovery shows that a major underground channel generated by an ancient mega-flood is twice as deep as thought, and sheds light on how water shaped the surface of Mars, scientists added.
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Rover Curiosity may resume operation on Mars soon
NASA said that its Mars rover Curiosity, which halted its exploration on the Red Planet last Thursday due to a memory malfunction, might get back to work this weekend.
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Curiosity Mars rover suffers computer malfunction
A memory problem with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover's main computer has prompted engineers to switch the rover over to a redundant onboard computer.
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2018 Mars mission: Who should go?
Billionaire Dennis Tito announced plans Wednesday for a two-person private mission to Mars, in 2018. The project seeks a married couple with technical backgrounds and a healthy dose of courage.
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Dennis Tito plans to send couple to Mars and back
Multimillionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has established Inspiration Mars Foundation a nonprofit intended to organize a mission to Mars by 2017. The project's chief technical officer Taber MacCallum dubbed this a no-frills, 'Lewis and Clark trip to Mars'.
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Millionaire plans to send couple to Mars in 2018. Is that realistic? (+video)
The Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by space tourist and multimillionaire Dennis Tito, announces its plan to send a married couple on a flyby mission to the Red Planet beginning in 2018.
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Dennis Tito to announce private mission to Mars
Space tourist millionaire Dennis Tito, who in 2001 paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station, is planning a privately funded trip to the Red Planet.
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Mars might still harbor life, say scientists
Liquid water might flow seasonally at some places on Mars, potentially supporting microbial life, say some researchers.
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Mars is red on the outside, gray on the inside, rover discovers
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover completed its very first drilling activity on the Red Planet, yielding a gray powder from inside an ancient rock.
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In historic first, Mars Curiosity rover drills into Martian rock
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has sent home photos of samples that it gathered from deep inside a rock on Mars. It is the first time a robot has ever drilled into a rock on any planet other than Earth.
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Curiosity makes history with scoop – and begins Mars mission in earnest
NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully drilled into bedrock and scooped the sample – a first for Mars exploration. It was the rover's last systems test, meaning the training wheels are off.
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State of the Union: NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' will sit with Michelle Obama
At the State of the Union address tomorrow night, First Lady Michelle Obama will be joined by NASA's 'Mohawk Guy,' the Iranian-American Bobak Ferdowsi who attracted attention during the landing of NASA's latest Mars mission, the Curiosity rover.
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NASA's Curiosity rover taps Martian rock with its drill
Using its arm mounted drill, NASA's Curiosity rover has hammered a rock on an outcrop on Mars, in preparation for the first drilling activity on the Red Planet.
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NASA's Curiosity ready to drill first Mars rock
NASA's Curiosity, the SUV-sized robot exploring Mars, is getting ready to spin its drill bit for the first time. Curiosity can probe an inch deep into Martian rock, deeper than any previous rover or lander.
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White veins of Mars: Curiosity hits 'a jackpot' in quest for wetter past
Curiosity rover has found mineral-filled fissures in the rocks of Gale Crater on Mars. Together with other evidence, the minerals suggest that the rocks were once 'saturated with water.'
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