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May 16, 2015

Mystery Methane on Mars: The Saga Continues
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 15, 2015
A scientist has raised questions about the latest detection of methane on Mars, suggesting that NASA's rover could be responsible for the mysterious burp. Highly unlikely, but not impossible, says the Curiosity team. Is the Red Planet giving off methane? The question has taunted scientists for nearly 50 years, ever since the Mariner 7 spacecraft detected a whiff of the gas near Mars' south pole. Researchers retracted the finding a month later after realizing that the signal was in fact coming from ... read more

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Auroras on Mars One day, when humans go to Mars, they might find that, occasionally, the Red Planet has green skies. In late Dec. 2014, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft detected evidence of widespread auroras in Mars's nort ... more		Quick Detour by NASA Mars Rover Checks Ancient Valley Researchers slightly detoured NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the mission's planned path in recent days for a closer look at a hillside site where an ancient valley had been carved out and refilled ... more		Curiosity tracks sundown on Mars The sun dips to a Martian horizon in a blue-tinged sky in images sent home to Earth this week from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) to record the sunset during a ... more
				Russian Scientist Gets Patent on Transfiguring Martian Atmosphere As the Earth's brainpower is focused on Mars exploration, a chemist privatized space engineering and is ready to make the Red Planet's atmosphere suitable for colonists. No jokes. A Russian ch ... more		NASA funds SwRI instrument to date Moon and Mars rocks NASA has approved $2.6 million to advance development of Southwest Research Institute's (SwRI) Chemistry, Organics, and Dating Experiment (CODEX) instrument. The device will allow unmanned rovers to ... more

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NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million miles away from Earth? NASA ... more		Student Mars Rover team will compete in Utah desert A team of Cornell engineering students has advanced to the finals of the University Rover Challenge, a competition to build and operate a prototype radio-controlled vehicle that could assist astrona ... more		SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military		4,000+ Martian Days of Work on Mars! Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater next to the "Spirit of St. Louis" crater near the entrance of "Marathon Valley." The rover has been exploring the outcrops in this area. On h ... more
				Damaging Radiation Effects on Travelers to Mars We already know that interplanetary travel will be extremely expensive and may take months or years to achieve one-way trips to Mars and other planets. In addition to the long travel times and expen ... more		UAE says on track to send probe to Mars in 2021 Oil-rich United Arab Emirates said Wednesday it was pressing ahead with plans to send the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, naming it "Hope". ... more

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US space agency chief confident of putting Americans on Mars in 2030s U.S. space agency NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday hailed progress on the manned Mars mission, saying that they are on track to reach the goal set by President Barack Obama five years ... more		Traffic Around Mars Gets Busy NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely. Last year's addition of two new spacecraf ... more		OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystem		Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars An elongated crater called "Spirit of St. Louis," with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Opportunity compl ... more
Space radiation may harm astronauts' brains: study Flying people to deep space - like Mars or an asteroid - is high on NASA's wish list, but research on mice suggested Friday that extended radiation exposure permanently harms the brain. ... more		Hawaii Says 'Aloha' to NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator The second test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project arrived April 25 at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The vehicle now will undergo final ... more		Deep Space Atomic Clock On Time For 2016 Mission As the saying goes, timing is everything. More so in 21st-century space exploration where navigating spacecraft precisely to far-flung destinations - say, to Mars or even more distant Europa, a moon ... more		Rover on the Lookout for Dust Devils Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater next to the "Spirit of St. Louis" crater near the entrance of "Marathon Valley." The rover had been conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaig ... more

	Search for Extraterrestial Life Included in Russian Space Program Projects for searching for extraterrestial life forms, studying climate changes on Earth, and defining the level of threat from dangerous comets and asteroids have been included in Russia's space pr ... more		UAE opens space center to oversee mission to Mars The United Arab Emirates (UAE) opened the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center on Saturday to oversee preparations of the country's Mars exploration probe mission. A resolution to this effect was ... more

Redesigned carbon framework boosts battery safety and power

Molecular catalyst switches between hydrogen and oxygen production

Project Pele microreactor reaches key milestone with first TRISO fuel delivery

Mars Test Rover Joins Runners at Finish Line		Robotic Arm Gets Busy on Rock Outcrop		NASA Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine		NASA's Curiosity Rover Making Tracks and Observations		Mars might have liquid water
Research for One-Year Space Station Mission Launched On Falcon 9		Mars rover data boosts hope for liquid water on Mars		'Dwarf planet' Ceres spawns giant mystery		Examining Rock Outcrop at 'The Spirit of St. Louis' Crater		Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water

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Mars' dust-covered glacial belts may contain tons of water

Team Returning Orbiter to Duty After Computer Swap

More evidence for groundwater on Mars

NASA Selects Companies to Develop Super-Fast Deep Space Engine

Nanoscale speed bump could regulate plasmons for high-speed data flow

Scars on Mars from 2012 Rover Landing Fade - Usually

Bill Nye and others discussing taking humans to Mars by 2033

Curiosity Sniffs Out History of Martian Atmosphere

Warm or cold? Mars' history takes a watery new twist

Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars

Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology

Flash Reformatted and Marathon Completed

Rover Amnesia Event Follows Latest Memory Reformatting

Russia, US to Jointly Prepare Mars, Moon Flight Road Map

Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars

NASA Reformats Memory of Longest-Running Mars Rover

NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance

Ancient Martian lake system records 2 water-related events

NASA rover completes 11-year Mars marathon

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