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The Meaning of Methane on Mars
December 17, 2014 – Move over Earth. You are probably no longer the sole source of life in the Universe, or even in the Solar System. A tenfold spike in methane gas detected by the Mars Sample Analysis...
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It`s a Green Christmas Here in Toronto but Not on Parts of Mars
December 25, 2014 – When I walked my dog this Christmas morning there was not a hint of snow anywhere. In fact we had to skirt puddles of water as we made our way through the local park. Autumn leaves...
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Rover Reboot on Mars After Ten Years
December 31, 2014 – The last day of the current year sees Opportunity facing an increasing series of amnesia events. So NASA has decided to isolate bad memory on the aging robot to keep the mission...
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Mars is Changing Our Perspective About Earth and Life in the Universe
January 9, 2015 – The recent detection of methane spikes on Mars reported here in a posting on December 17th, is part of mounting evidence for the existence of life on the Red Planet. But there is far...
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Future Rovers on Mars May Be Accompanied by a Robot Helicopter
January 24, 2015 – Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California has a vacuum chamber where the thin Martian atmosphere can be replicated. This is the test bed for a proposed Martian...
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A Martian Ocean Covered More of the Planet than the Atlantic Here on Earth
March 7, 2015 – In the latest revelations from NASA, and the European Southern Observatory, isotopic measurements of detectable water on Mars shows a disproportionately high incidence of deuterium...
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NASA News – Mars Landing Technology Test and Progress Report on Future Missions
March 26, 2015 – When we think of NASA these days we have an impression of an agency that has lost its way for a number of reasons. One is budgetary constraints with NASA receiving little in the way of...
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It Seems Earth is One of the Only Places Running Out of Freshwater
April 8, 2015 – Water seems to be in the science headlines these days. We have NASA forecasting that California will be out of freshwater in a year while at the same time scientists report on the...
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New NASA Study Says Human Crews Going to Mars with Today’s Technology Would...
May 4, 2015 – Should this be a surprise to anyone who has studied radiation and its impact on living things? Conventional propulsion and shielding technologies will not cut it on a six-month voyage...
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Traffic Cop Needed for Mars Orbiters
May 6, 2015 – Managing the more than 1,000 satellites around our planet is becoming a colossal headache these days. And that doesn’t include the tens of thousands of discarded objects and debris from...
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Two Theories About Mars’ Past – Warm and Wet or Cold and Icy
June 19, 2015 – For sometime now as robot rovers and Martian orbiters study the geology of our neighbouring planet we have learned about its past. Mars some 4 billion or more years ago may have been...
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Mars to Get its First Airplane if NASA Plans Pan Out
July 3, 2015 – For humans to successfully endure a voyage to Mars and back NASA wants to have a better picture of where to land. So they want to deploy an airplane to fly over the surface. Called the...
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Interesting Space News This Week
July 25, 2015 – Space has been big in the news in the last week. From the latest Pluto images to the discovery of a potential Earth-twin exoplanet, to new observations about the bright spots on the...
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Nuke Mars to Terraform It Says Elon Musk – I Don’t Think So!
September 11, 2015 – Even Tony Stark’s real life alter ego, Elon Musk, gets it wrong from time to time. On this week’s CBS The Late Show, he told host Stephen Colbert that Mars can be fixed up to be a...
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Getting Humans to Mars the NASA Way
December 16, 2015 – There is Mars One, Elon Musk and NASA. All talk about colonizing Mars. Mars One fantasizes about the first colonists getting to the Red Planet within the next 10 to 15 years. This...
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NASA’s New Year’s Gift was a Congressional Windfall Aimed at Mars
January 1, 2016 – Welcome to the New Year and what should prove to be an exciting one for scientific learning and technological advances. We continue to see knowledge doubling in shorter time periods...
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Martian Concrete for Martian Homes
January 6, 2015 – Researchers at Northwestern University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have analyzed the chemistry of Martian soil from rover data and have come up with a formula...
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Growing Potatoes on Mars and Other Martian News
February 17, 2016 – While Mars One has become quiescent of late, Elon Musk is once more pushing the envelope for a human mission to Mars by 2025. He is driven to: establish humans as a multi-planet...
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Study of Comet-Mars Close Encounter Reveals Surprising Results
March 20, 2016 – Comet Siding Spring flew by Mars on October 19, 2014 giving scientists an opportunity to see the impact of a close encounter with the Red Planet. The Martian orbiters were at risk and...
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Curiosity Tells Us After Two Martian Years That There is No Place Like Home...
May 16, 2016 – We all grumble about the weather here on Earth but after listening to the May 2016 Curiosity report and reading about its latest observations you have to wonder why anyone would want to...
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