Topic: Mars (Planet)
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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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Can the national debt be cut? How Republican candidates' plans compare.
Here's a comparative look at the candidates based on the group's numbers.
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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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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Massive craters
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Global News Blog Good Reads: Mars mission, gene patents, cellphone tracking, 'absurd' start-ups, Netflix streamlines
This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a company that aims to turn a Mars colony into reality television, attempts to patent human genes, cellphone users' real feelings about privacy, and a smart focus by Netflix.
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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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Livable super-Earths? Two candidates among Kepler's latest finds.
Researchers unveiled a total of three planets Thursday, including two potentially livable super-Earths. The discoveries bring the Kepler team closer to its goal.
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NASA's big decision: Build a moon base or lasso an asteroid?
NASA and lawmakers disagree over the future of human spaceflight. NASA has its sights set on an asteroid landing, while legislators want a permanent moon base.
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Sen. Bill Nelson announces NASA's plan to capture asteroid
NASA will use a robotic spaceship to capture an asteroid and bring it closer to the moon. Astronauts will then explore the asteroid in the hopes of developing technology to nudge dangerous asteroids away from Earth.
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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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Bow-legged robot can scamper across rugged terrain
Scientists have developed a tiny robot with six curved legs that enable it to sprint over unstable surfaces such as sand, gravel, and other unstable surfaces.
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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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A new form of microbe in Antarctic lake?
Russian scientists say that they have detected an "unidentified and unclassified" bacterium from a giant lake locked under Antarctic ice. But some have suggested that the samples could have been contaminated.
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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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Little telescope to hunt big game: hard-to-see near-Earth asteroids
Canada's NEOSSat space telescope was launched Monday atop an Indian rocket. It will monitor two groups of asteroids whose proximity to the sun makes them hard to see from Earth.
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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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