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Mars the Red Planet: Latest News and Discoveries
Mars, The Red Planet, Fourth Planet From The Sun
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The 3-mile-high Mount Sharp is Curiosity's ultimate destination.
Curiosity has accomplished its main mission goals, but the rover won't rest on its laurels.
NASA Scientist Joel Hurowitz explains that favorable conditions for life on ancient Mars (found by Curiosity rock sample analysis) at the Gale Crater are in direct contrast with data from the Opportunity Rover about the Meridian Planum region.
Curiosity is not yet ready to start the trek to Mount Sharp.
Russian and European space officials signed a deal to launch a Red Planet orbiter in 2016 and a rover in 2018 as part of the ExoMars program.
Mars once had all the right conditions to support living microbes, suggests a chemical analysis by the Curiosity rover.
Behind the scenes look at the Clark telescope, built by Percival Lowell to study Mars, that first discovered the expanding nature of the universe and mapped the Moon for the Apollo program. It is one of the largest refracting telescope ever built.
See photos of the discovery and analysis of rock samples by NASA scientists using the Mars rover Curiosity.
The Red Planet was habitable long, long ago, scientists say.
NASA's Curiosity rover found oxygen, water, sulfate and other elements in a rock sample from Mars. [<a href=http://www.space.com/20187-ancient-mars-life-curiosity-faq.html>Full Story</a>]
Answers to a few basic questions about the Curiosity rover's latest discovery.
A look at the major steps forward in searching for life on Mars.
Missions to Mars have searched, but haven't found definite proof of life past or present.
A look at the nonprofit's plan to land four humans on Mars in 2023.
Mars One has contracted with Paragon Space Development Corp. to do a conceptual design study.
A new NASA challenge tasks students with protecting astronauts and hardware from deep-space radiation.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to find the underground Martian channels.
The solar outburst is complicating efforts to bring Curiosity back from a computer glitch.
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