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March 01, 2013

Comet may give Mars a close shave in 2014
Coonabarabran, Australia (UPI) Feb 27, 2013
A newly discovered comet is heading for Mars and should give the red planet a close fly-by in October 2014, Australian astronomers say. Comet hunter Robert McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, discovered the object dubbed C/2013 Jan. 3. Additional data on the comet's movements by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona allowed astronomers to trace the comet's likely orbit around the sun. Its calculated trajectory has the comet crossing Mars's orbit on Oc ... read more

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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active. The intentional swap ... more		First-ever space tourist plans mission to Mars The world's first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans Wednesday to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away. ... more		Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team memb ... more
				Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests NASA scientists say two compact laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity have ingested the first rock powder ever collected from inside a martian rock. ... more		Opportunity Is On A Rock Hunt Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign at different locations around the inboard edge of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3214 (Feb. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Big Nickel Rock Target Ahead Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign at different locations around the inboard edge of 'Cape York' on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3221 (Feb. ... more		NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled ... more		GE and Lockheed validate compact rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missiles Danish PM says Greenland showdown at 'decisive moment' after new Trump threats Russia claims Oreshnik missile hit Ukrainian aviation plant		India plans mission to Mars in 2013 India said on Thursday it will send a $70 million space mission to Mars this year to study the red planet's atmosphere. ... more
				Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet's surface So much for Mars being "The Red Planet." ... more		Bleach could hamper Mars life search A martian meteorite frozen in antarctic ice suggests we may need to dig deeper into Mars to search for traces of past life, U.S. researchers say. ... more

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At the mouth of the red valley ESA's Mars Express took a high-resolution stereo image on 13 January of the southeast corner of the Amenthes Planum region on Mars, near to Palos crater and the mouth of a well-known sinuous valley, ... more		NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the nex ... more		Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resources Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime Warming trend to intensify crop droughts across Europe and beyond		Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Some casual obs ... more
				Rover Walkabout Continues at Cape York Opportunity is conducting the post-walkabout in-situ (contact) science campaign on the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3208 (Jan. 31, 2013), the rover collecte ... more		In milestone, Mars rover collects first bedrock sample In a first, the Mars rover Curiosity has penetrated a rock on the Red Planet and collected a sample from its interior, the US space agency announced Saturday. ... more

Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along

Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Welcome Aboard Shenzhou 10

Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

ESA's Columbus Biolab Facility

SpaceX set for third mission to space station

Record Number of Students Control ISS Camera

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

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	How The World's Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt; Implications For Water On Mars Antarctica's Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond's high salt content - by far the highest of any body of water on ... more		NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first t ... more		Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The orbiter is now undergoing environmental testing at the company's Space Systems fac ... more		Sampling Several Rock Targets Opportunity is moving around the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, performing in-situ (contact) science investigations. On Sol 3200 (Jan. 23, 2013), the rover complet ... more

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2013 to be bumper year for space science: ESA

Possible Clues to Ancient Subsurface Biosphere on Mars

NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

Reull Vallis: a river ran through it

Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop

Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake

US scientists find evidence of ancient Martian lake

Choosing the right people to go to Mars

ChemCam follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian wet area

NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

Mars image suggests ancient water flow

Mars rover readies first rock drilling

Bacteria In Rio Tinto Could Be Like Those On Mars

Opportunity Heading Toward Light-Toned Veins

Mars One announces requirements for Red Planet colonists

NASA Researchers Studying Advanced Nuclear Rocket Technologies

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Simulated mission to Mars reveals critical data about sleep needs for astronauts

Simulated Mars mission shows good sleep is critical

NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use Of Its Brush

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