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Mars the Red Planet: Latest News and Discoveries

The twin of NASA Spirit rover, the robotic explorer Opportunity is also alive and well more than four years after its Jan. 25, 2004 (ET) landing.<br><br> Opportunity landed on the flat plains of Meridiani Planum, which sits on the side of Mars opposite Gu

Mars, The Red Planet, Fourth Planet From The Sun

Skywatcher Ajay Talwar captures dazzling photo of Mars, Saturn and Spica over historic landmark in Delhi, India.
The robot has been sizing up a target rock and flexing its robotic arm.
The Dutch nonprofit Mars One aims to land four colonists on the Red Planet in 2023. Do you want to be one of them?
Mars One will use the money to fund conceptual design studies and its astronaut selection process.
The European Space Agency will send its Mars Express spacecraft within 36 miles of the tiny moon.
The discovery reinforces the dynamic nature of the Martian surface.
In Mars' polar regions, carbon dioxide freezes up to 2 feet thick. As the Sun begins to thaw the ice it turns into a gas. The gas release carries dark sand and dust, moving them down the steep sides of the dunes.
The photos show Mars at night in visible and ultraviolet light.
The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory Curiosity will roll across the surface of Mars for years, searching for the conditions that may have once made Mars an abode of life.
Distances driven by wheeled vehicles on the Moon and Mars.
Opportunity's surface mission was originally supposed to last three months.
The Top 10 results from NASA's long-lived Red Planet explorers.
Mars One's leader discusses how a global reality-TV event can fund a Red Planet colonization effort.
"The Changing Face of Mars" will premiere tonight at Caltech in Pasadena.
McLaughlin Crater on Mars is 57 miles wide and deep enough that groundwater may have filled it in the distant past.
The robotic "hedgehogs" could ride the Phobos Surveyor spacecraft to Mars in a few decades.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took the crisp photo.
There are good scientific and ethical reasons to protect parts of Mars and other celestial bodies, advocates say.