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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

Researchers are developing a mission that would assess the habitability of the icy satellite.
The six-wheeled robot is depicted in MAD's venerable fold-in feature.
Engineers installed a potential fix shortly before the rover launched last November.
A European spacecraft orbiting Mars has snapped wintry-looking pictures of a mountain range on the Red Planet's southern highlands.
The findings should shed light on the evolution of the moon and the solar system's rocky planets.
Some scientists want the 2020 rover mission to collect pieces of Mars for eventual return to Earth.
NASA will keep running Curiosity and its other Mars assets as long as they're scientifically viable.
NASA will launch a new Mars science rover with new tools to study the Red Planet. Former astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld outlines the next 8 years of Mars exploration.
NASA officials announced a plan to send another roving vehicle to Mars within this decade.
Opportunity has made its way to clay-bearing deposits on the Red Planet.
The rover's chief scientist was just excited about Curiosity's mission, and thrilled that one of its key instruments was working flawlessly.
Engineers at Washington State University are using moon-like material supplied by NASA to print 3-D objects that can be used on the Moon and elsewhere in Space.
NASA's goal should be to pioneer the solar system, says a new report by the Space Foundation.
Mars explorers could spend nearly two years on the Red Planet without receiving a worryingly high dose.
Soil analysis on Mars by the roving laboratory has delivered a detection of simple organic compounds. Further review will determine if it is actually from Mars or residuals from the rovers time on Earth and, critically, if it is the result of life.
NASA's Curiosity rover found Martian dirt containing chlorine, water and sulfur compounds.
The annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union lasts all week.
From the face on Mars to microbes in meteorites, here are 5 findings that haven't quite panned out.