Curiosity: "Grey Mars" had the ingredients for life
Underneath the oxidized red skin of Martian rocks, there is a grey Mars made of a mix of oxidized and reduced chemicals that could once have driven prokaryotic metabolisms.The chemical analysis of rock...
View ArticleOn Mars: Spring Break is Over
There is a reason that Mars Curiosity news has been scarce lately, a reason that Newton and Copernicus and Galileo would appreciate. This spring, Mars and Earth have been in Solar Conjunction, that is,...
View ArticleOn Mars: Manned Missions Will be Trickier, More Expensive and Take Longer to...
Sometimes scientific measurements provide inconvenient results. Newly reported measurements from the Curiosity Rover mission will force NASA to design better radiation shielding for manned Mars...
View ArticleOn Mars: Smile, You're On . . . Mars
Alan Funt's Candid Camera was an early and very successful reality TV format watched by generations of Americans. Long before the NSA started watching our every move, Alan Funt was watching, and...
View ArticleOn Mars: Mount Sharp or Bust
After the Curiosity Rover alighted at Bradbury Landing last year, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, all of its operations have taken place less than one kilometer from the landing site. Already,...
View ArticleOn Mars: What Do Turbo the Snail and the Curiosity Rover Have in Common
Nothing. Turbo, the high speed snail CGA character in the recent Dreamworks release now gracing America's theater's would probably be faster than Curiosity even if the little mollusk wasn't...
View ArticleOn Mars: Extreme Sports
This is JPL's idea, not mire. But it is very, very cool. Will astronaut snowboarding become an Olympic event?Here is a transcript of the video: Serina Diniega, JPL Systems Engineer: We were looking...
View ArticleOn Mars: A New Milestone for Curiosity
Even after Curiosity and the Mars Science Laboratory have sojournied on Mars for over a year, NASA and the team at JPL are still deploying new capabilities for the robust robot scientist. This time, as...
View ArticleOn Mars: Us?
We may all be Martians. Evidence is building that Earth life originated on Mars and was brought to this planet aboard a meteorite, said biochemist Steven Benner of The Westheimer Institute for Science...
View ArticleOn Mars: Curiosity Confirms Meteorites' Origin
For decades, scientists have hypothesized that some meteorites striking Earth originated on Mars, after being blasted into space when other space objects slammed into the Red Planet or by explosive...
View ArticleCuriosity finds water on Mars.
Curiosity's SAM Instrument Finds Water and More in Surface Sample The first scoop of soil analyzed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the...
View ArticleOn Mars: Curiosity Finds a Good Swimmin' Hole!
The discovery of water on ancient Mars isn't news, of course. Orbital observations and the work by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and other NASA rovers have confirmed numerous locations where liquid...
View ArticleOn Mars: For Valentine's Day -- Curiosity Dates a Rock
Not only that, the unfaithful robotic tart intends to date other rocks, too, as she continues her Quixotic search for Mr. Goodbar Organic Carbon. An expose of the affair is in this YouTube.A transcript...
View ArticleOn Mars: One Photo which says everything
For a really gee whiz look at this image from NASA's Curiosity Rover go to the JPL web site, here. The perspective of tiny Earth viewed from one of her closest planetary neighbors, tells us all we...
View ArticleOn Mars: Republicans of all Stripes Should Probably Hate This
Christian Fundies should hate it because it belies the possibility of young Earth. Tea Partyers should hate it because their taxes help pay for it. Wall Street should hate it because they can't find a...
View ArticleOn Mars: It is Not Yet Time for Humans to Go
Hopefully, humans will not be going to Mars within the lifetimes of any person now alive. Only unforeseen scientific and technological breakthroughs could change that hope. Antics like the Mars One...
View ArticleOn Mars: Women
It takes 102 people to run daily operations for the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity Rover mission. Today, NASA recognizes and honors women on the project, assigning 76 of those rolls to women....
View ArticleOn Mars: Today NASA Announced the Science Package for the Next Rover
While Curiosity continues to perform groundbreaking science in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA today announced the scientific instruments and capabilities for the next rover mission planned for 2020. Come out...
View Article[BREAKING] Water on Mars - today!
Recurring lineae - evidence of flowing water NASA just announced evidence for flowing water on Mars in the present.Full NASA press release now available - The Guardian: Liquid water runs down canyons...
View ArticleThe evolution of Mars
The great drying: Mars as it may have appeared billions of years ago on the left, and Mars as it appears today on the far right. Source: Wikipedia NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover was sent off to Mars in...
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