Life possible on ‘large regions’ of Mars
Australian scientists who modeled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the Red Planet was habitable said that “large regions” could sustain life.
Archive for December, 2011
12 December 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Russia could join ExoMars as full partner
Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said.
9 December 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Opportunity Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
8 December 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images
An improved tool debuts today for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The new tool, HiView, offers the best way to take a personal, virtual hike through any of thousands of square miles of [...]
7 December 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Mountains and buried ice on Mars
New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future astronauts.
5 December 2011 | 0 comments | View Post