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Filling the pantry for the first voyages to the Red PlanetDenver CO (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 A green thumb and a little flair as a gourmet chef may be among the key skills for the first men and women who travel to the Red Planet later this century, according to a scientist who reported here on preparations for the first manned missions to Mars. Speaking at the 242nd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Maya R. Cooper said that provisioning the astronauts with food stands as one of the greatest challenges in scripting the first manned mission to Mars. ... read more |
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 Out of Thin Martian Air A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go? Geological observations suggest rivers and seas dotted the martian surface 3.5 billion years ago. The amount of water has been equated to a p ... more | .. |
  Neil Armstrong urges return to the Moon Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. ... more | .. |
 Russian, European space agencies to team up for Mars mission With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip ... more | .. |
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 New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diame ... more | .. |
 Possibility of Mars microbial life eyed U.S. scientists say they'll recreate conditions on Mars in a laboratory to see if microbial life might exist in salt droplets observed on the red planet. ... more | .. |
 France, Russia talk of Mars mission The European Space Agency says it will team up with Russia's space agency with the goal of launching the first manned mission to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Arrival in the Arctic After two days of travel from Clinton, Canada, where I had spent the previous week with the Pavilion Lake Research Project, I arrived in the evening in Resolute Bay, in Nunavut Territory, Canada. ... more |
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 Lava, not water, said cause of Mars beds A U.S. researcher says large, river-like channels seen on Mars were created not by water but by massive, fast-moving lava flows of a type we don't see on Earth. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Reaches Endeavour Crater Opportunity has arrived at Endeavour crater after a 1000-sol, 13.36 mile (21.5 kilometer) odyssey across the plains of Meridiani. On Sol 2681(Aug. 9, 2011), Opportunity drove 203 feet (62 mete ... more | .. |
 No Convenience Stores Between Earth and Mars... Yet Here's a summer reading suggestion from the University of Virginia that involves space travel - and it's not science fiction. Even though the space shuttle program has ended, it's not the end ... more | .. |
 Opportunity For A Captain Cook At Endeavour Crater After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before. On Aug. 9, the golf cart-sized ... more |
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 Opportunity On Final Rove To Endeavour Crater The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field's distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission's long-term goal ... more | .. |
 Mars' northern polar regions in transition A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. ... more | .. |
 Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows on Mars Dark, finger-like features that appear and extend down some Martian slopes during the warmest months of the Mars year may show activity of salty water on Mars. They fade in winter, then recur the ne ... more | .. |
 Nearing First Landfall of Large Crater Opportunity is now only about 120 meters (394 feet) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover drove four times in the last week on Sols 2670, 2671, 2674 ... more |
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Heavy snow in US strands drivers in 100-vehicle crash
Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out
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NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. "NASA's Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining ... more | .. |
Opportunity Past 20-Mile Mark As it Nears Large Crater Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more | .. |
 Flowing water on Mars sparks new hunt for life traces Scientists have found evidence of flowing salt water on steep Martian slopes, which if confirmed would be the first discovery of active liquid water on the red planet, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New uses for Space Station For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space. Futur ... more |
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MAVEN Mission Completes Major Milestone The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review (CDR). MAVEN, scheduled for lau ... more | .. |
 NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled to launch late this year and lan ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Closing In On Spirit Point At Endeavour Crater Opportunity is only about 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues to make very good progress, driving five times ... more | .. |
 NASA says Mars mountain will read like 'a great novel' The US space agency's unmanned Curiosity rover will explore a mountain on Mars that should read like "a great novel," revealing if signs of life ever existed on the red planet, NASA said Friday. ... more |
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Russia says US has not released crew from detained tanker
Inside China's buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock
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 Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving More than seven years into what was planned as a three-month mission on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than 20 miles, which is more than 50 times the mission's origi ... more | .. |
  Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first probe to enter orbit around an objec ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Under One Mile from Crater Rim Opportunity has exceeded 32 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) of distance on Mars and is now less than 1.5 kilometers (approximately a mile) from the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, fo ... more |
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 NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15 On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lie ... more | .. |
 Mars Opportunity Rover Nears Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is now within 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater, at a place called "Spirit Point." With multi-sol planning for the 4th of July holiday w ... more | .. |
 NASA in Australia for Mars research NASA says it is using a remote region of Australia's outback as a training ground for planetary scientists preparing to send a new rover to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Two Possible Sites for Next Mars Rover NASA's next Mars rover will land either beside the site of a former river delta or beside a mountain of stacked layers. These enticing locations are the two finalists as the Mars Science Laboratory ... more |
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