Topic: Mars (Planet)
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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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Europa or bust? Maybe not. Top 9 priorities for planetary research missions
The National Research Council has just unveiled planetary scientists' space-mission wish-list for the next 10 years. Tight federal budgets will provide the reality check. Here's a sampler of missions the panel recommends NASA undertake this decade.
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NASA plans follow-up trek to Mars
The Mars rover Curiosity is four months into its 2-year investigative visit to Mars. Now NASA is planning another rover trip to bring samples from Mars back to Earth.
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Mars rover Curiosity soil analysis: why no news still isn't bad news
The Mars rover Curiosity has finished its first full soil analysis in Gail Crater, and its findings are consistent with those elsewhere on the planet. Researchers say the results form a 'baseline.'
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NASA surprised to spot ice on Mercury
NASA's Messenger probe enabled researchers to find unexpected materials frozen in Mercury's north pole. Scientists think the materials arrived via comets or asteroids that hit millions of years ago.
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SpaceX founder Musk eyes 'self-sustaining' Mars civilization
In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.
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US-Russian crew chosen for yearlong space voyage
American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016.
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NASA: Astronauts could survive Mars radiation
Radiation on the surface of the Red Planet is roughly similar to that experienced by astronauts on the international space station, report NASA scientists. The findings help researchers understand the planet's capacity for supporting life and will assist NASA in preparations for future manned flights to the planet.
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Curiosity's unsung skill: scouting Mars for a human mission (+video)
NASA's Curiosity rover is on Mars to look for signs that Gale Crater was once suitable for microbial life. But Curiosity's weather instruments are providing insight into the environment astronauts might face on Mars.
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Life at C-level: too many chiefs?
The Monitor’s language columnist looks at the proliferation of 'C-level' job titles.
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Will election results affect NASA funding?
Predictions say NASA funding is unlikely to rise under either a Democratic or Republican president. However, NASA's priorities under Obama or Romney might be different.
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Mars rover begins munching dirt, finds weird bright stuff (+video)
The soil has been successfully delivered to the rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument, or CheMin, mission scientists announced Oct. 18.
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For Mars rover Curiosity, at last, it's dinnertime. On the menu: dirt.
It's period of painstaking preparations over, the Mars rover Curiosity has at long last ingested a sample of soil for analysis by its on-board chemistry lab. That's what it came 352 million miles for.
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Scientists confident moon born of colossal Earth collision that vaporized Zinc
Researchers examined rocks collected by astronauts during NASA's Apollo lunar landing missions, as well as a meteorite that originated on the moon to make the find.
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From the 'Wastebook': robotic squirrels, talking urinals, and Congress
Sen. Tom Coburn's annual Wastebook comes up with $18 billion of spending that never should have occurred, with an eye to getting Washington priorities back in line. The No. 1 wasteful item: $132 million to run a Congress that won't say no to waste.
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Mysterious moon water: Did solar winds create lunar water?
These findings suggest that other airless bodies in the solar system may also possess water on their surfaces, investigators added.
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NASA rover Curiosity finds a rock not seen before on Mars (+video)
Using a laser and X-rays, the NASA rover Curiosity identified a rock named Jake as a form of basalt, similar to volcanic rocks found in ocean-island settings on Earth.
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Martian black glass meteorite may reveal Red Planet's secrets
Within a Tissint meteorite, scientists found an abundance of black glass that they say may contain traces of Mars' surface, atmosphere and interior.
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Did Mars rover photograph a broken piece of itself?
Curiosity scooped its first Mars sample using its robotic arm Sunday (Oct. 7) and used onboard cameras to snap photos of the event.
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Why a clean Mars rover is a happy Mars rover (+video)
The Mars rover Curiosity is putting its dramatic explorations on hold, for tests and essential cleaning: After all, if it's going to accurately analyze Martian soil, it must shed its Earthly residue.
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Mars rover finds surprisingly pleasant weather during day, deadly cold at night
Temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.
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Space boat could voyage on Saturn moon Titan's lakes
Titan, the largest of the more than 60 natural satellites of Saturn, is covered in seas, lakes and rivers of methane, and hosts a thick atmosphere, making it one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system.
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India launches 101st space mission, and looks to Mars
The mission will be carried out without international help, highlighting the growth and ambition of India's home-grown space program, which plans to launch a mission to Mars.
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Ancient streambed latest clue in Mars water mystery
The discovery suggests that water had flowed fast and relatively deep — perhaps hip-deep, in fact — through the area billions of years ago.
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What's on Mars? Evidence of water (+video)
On Thursday, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover identified what are believed to be rocks moved by water that once flowed on the Red Planet. Curiosity's further exploration is hoped to determine whether Mars was once inhabited by microorganisms.
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Mars Curiosity rover discovers ancient streambed on planet's surface (+video)
This water flow was likely quite vigorous, perhaps akin to the flows produced by flash floods in desert areas here on Earth, researchers announced.
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Mars Curiosity rover snaps crescent moon Phobos in pale, Martian sky
The Curiosity rover's latest Mars photo captured the planet's largest Martian moon, Phobos, during a Martian evening, revealing the satellite as a faint crescent moon.
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