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Photographing Mars

Arts, Culture & Media

For three years NASA has had two Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) on Mars — two all terrain robots taking extraordinary pictures of the red planet every day. A third, the Phoenix will be sent up this August. Sarah Lilley talked to NASA scientist Jim Bell about how the Rovers’ planet-scapes and how they’re becoming a […]

Mars Rover

Arts, Culture & Media

The Decade Revisited

Arts, Culture & Media
Explorers Tom and Tina Sjogren stand in front of a blackboard at a makers space.

Dreaming of a DIY mission to Mars

Science
The Mauna Ulu lava shield in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Scientists just used Hawaii as a ‘body double’ for Mars

Science
An image of the Martian landscape taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover

How close are we to sending humans to Mars?

Technology

With recent announcements by companies like SpaceX, experts say the technology get us to Mars may not be far off — if we’re ready to live there.

Mars

Mars brought them together. Now, they want to be the the first couple to live there.

Science

R. Daniel Golden and Yari Rodriguez are on the short list of 100 candidates for Mars One, which has the audacious goal of colonizing Mars by 2023.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife, Jackie, watch as the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft lifts off on December 5, 2014.

One small step from Earth, one giant leap to Mars?

Science

NASA says the first launch of the Orion spacecraft on Friday is “the dawn of the new era of space exploration” that will finally kick off the attempt to put humans on Mars.

An artist's concept of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft approaching Mars. The probe entered Mars orbit on September 21.

A NASA spacecraft reaches Mars just in time to see an unexpected guest

Science

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft set out 10 months ago to study the atmosphere of Mars. Now it has arrived — and a happy celestial coincidence may offer it a two-for-one opportunity to study a comet that will pass close by.

Staff from the Indian Space Research Organization celebrate at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore after their Mars Orbiter spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit on September 24, 2014.

Women are the face of India’s Mars mission, but they’re still the exception

Science

When India celebrated the success of its first Mars mission, a photo of middle-aged female scientists draped in saris became the viral face of that triumph. But that doesn’t mean female scientists face an easy path, and Rhitu Chatterjee says much more needs to be done for gender equality.

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