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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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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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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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Mysterious Martian spheres baffle NASA researchers
The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain.
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Mars rover beams amazing panorama back to Earth (+video)
NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover has sent us a postcard, a stunning panorama view of the Red Planet, stitched together from 817 different images taken over six months.
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NASA astronauts train for deep space mission deep below the sea
Because NASA's NEEMO missions put participants in a hostile, alien environment, they're good analogs for expeditions to asteroids, planets, moons or other space destinations, officials said.
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NASA Mars rover finds strong evidence of water
NASAs Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the red planet nearly eight years ago, has discovered a mineral vein that was almost certainly deposited by water billions of years ago.
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Mars soil and rocks unlike any seen by rover so far
Mars soil and rocks: The solar-powered workhorse beamed back images of the horizon, soil and nearby rocks that are unlike any it has seen during its seven years roaming the Martian plains.
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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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British tabloid finds life on Mars. NASA disagrees.
A Wednesday article in the the Sun, a British tabloid, carried the headline 'NASA: Evidence of Life on Mars,' leaving scientists from the US space agency wondering if there's intelligent life in the Sun.
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Ignoring Stephen Hawking, NASA will search for extraterrestrial life
Where is all the extraterrestrial life? NASA scientists are currently considering a list of 28 future science missions that could help discover signs of said extraterrestrial life.
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NASA Mars rover Spirit to rove no more
Spirit, one of NASA's Mars rovers, has been stuck in a crater for the past 10 months. NASA scientists say that if it survives the harsh Martian winter, it can be a valuable stationary research platform.
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