China at technical preparation stage for Mars, asteroid exploration
China has been researching the technical feasibility of exploring Mars and asteroids, a top space scientist and national political advisor revealed on Tuesday.
Ye Peijian, from the China Acade ...
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Mars: The Planet that Lost an Ocean's Worth of Water
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, and covered a greater portion of the planet's surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on Earth, according to new results published t ...
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A sea change for ocean resource management
Tiny new fossil helps rewrite crab evolution, sheds lights on late Jurassic marine world
New research reveals low-oxygen impacts on West Coast groundfish
Epoch-defining study pinpoints when humans came to dominate planet Earth
Tracking sea turtles across hundreds of miles of open ocean
Ancient Mongol metallurgy an extreme polluter
Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern
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Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 that halted a process of transferring sa ...
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Single Site on Mars Advanced for 2016 NASA Lander
NASA's next mission to Mars, scheduled to launch one year from today to examine the Red Planet's deep interior and investigate how rocky planets like Earth evolved, now has one specific site under e ...
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New Flight Software to Fix Memory Issues is Onboard Rover
Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 492 feet (150 meters) away.
The project is preparing to ...
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How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial Life
In 1938, Orson Welles narrated a radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" as a series of simulated radio bulletins of what was happening in real time as Martians arrived on our home planet. The broadc ...
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Curiosity confirms methane in Mars' atmosphere
The tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument of the Curiosity robot has unequivocally detected an episodic increase in the concentration of methane in Mars' atmosph ...
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