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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 Comet known as 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) flies about 31,000 miles away from the surface of the Red Planet on October 19th, 2014.
Comet Siding Spring is expected to come within 30,000 miles of Mars in October next year.
The 1-ton robot is out of safe mode and may be back in action as early as this weekend.
The newfound comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) has only a slim chance if hitting Mars.
Exploring the final frontier has always been a tough proposition.
Engineers are trying to get Curiosity operational again after switching the rover from its primary computer to a backup.
The Inspiration Mars Foundation is hoping to recruit a married couple for its 2018 manned Mars flyby mission.
In the last year, private companies have unveiled asteroid mining projects, space rock sentinels and more.
Space tourist Dennis Tito's daring proposal to send a married couple on a 501-day space flight around the planet Mars and back.
How will a private Mars mission in 2018 work?
A new nonprofit hopes to launch a man and a woman on a Mars flyby mission.
See images and photos of an audacious private manned Mars mission in 2018 by the nonprofit Inspiration Mars Foundation.
Since the 1960s, humans have invaded our neighboring planet Mars with swarms of spacecraft. Only half of the attempts ever succeeded.
Space tourist Dennis Tito will announce a Mars mission to launch in 2018.
McKay helped train the Apollo moonwalkers and led a study that claimed a Mars meteorite may contain signs of past life.
Parts of the Red Planet may be exposed to flowing water seasonally.
The Red Planet's signature color is only skin deep.
For the first time on Mars, a rover has collected a rock sample using a drill. Curiosity's drill captured about 1 table spoon of Martian rock.
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