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Geotimes May 2003	Martian Field Trips on Earth Many researchers look to Earth for examples of or contrasts to what we're seeing of the Red Planet.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	A Weed Grows in Chile A lot of engineering gets done within the climate-controlled, fluorescent-lit confines of the modern office park. But engineers also go to great lengths in pursuit of new technology, as Jean Kumagai learned during a trip to Chile's Atacama Desert last fall.
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Teachers Face Desert Heat of Spaceward Bound Geoff Hammond is the latest teacher to be selected for NASA's Spaceward Bound program, a program aimed at training the next generation of space explorers.
Wired March 2004 David L. Chandler	Mars on Earth At the driest spot in the driest part of the driest desert in the world, NASA is getting ready to invade the Red Planet.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	There Will Be Cooking on Mars NASA's upcoming Phoenix lander mission may resolve lingering questions about organic molecules and liquid water on Mars.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Spacesuit, Snowsuit Red Planet simulations are meant to simulate as closely as possible what living and working on Mars would be like. But sometimes the illusion is broken. Snow doesn't fall on Mars, but nearby Hanksville, Utah, averages 15 centimeters per year.
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Rebecca Trager	NASA develop 'chemical laptop' for on-the-go analysis Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have developed a miniaturized on-the-go laboratory that analyses samples for molecules associated with living organisms.
Chemistry World December 19, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Carbonates Confirmed on Mars New snapshots of Mars appear to show large outcrops of carbonate-bearing rocks, indicating that regions of the Red Planet could once have been an ideal environment for life to thrive.
Chemistry World August 4, 2014 Andy Extance	Next Mars rover will make oxygen from CO 2 Nasa's Mars 2020 rover will take a small step towards helping us directly explore the red planet, by studying how to convert its carbon dioxide atmosphere to oxygen.
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Suzy Hansen	We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system...
Scientific American December 19, 2005 George Musser	Martian Claymation An ancient, watery Mars was not always an acid bath -- water-related clay minerals show up in the Nili Fossae/Syrtis Major region on the planet.
Chemistry World July 3, 2015	Getting the measure of Mars Sophisticated analytical chemistry is studying the history -- and habitability -- of our neighboring planet, as Andy Extance discovers.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars geologist in action After a successful landing close to midnight EST last Saturday, the Mars exploration rover Spirit has been sending back information to its human tenders, in Pasadena, Calif.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Daniel H. Wilson	Spirit, NASA Martian Exploration Rover, Dies at 6 (Earth Years) The Spirit Rover, which explored the surface of Mars for over half a decade, discovering pivotal evidence of the past existence of water, was consigned to her final resting place.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone.
Popular Mechanics January 5, 2010 Jeremy Jacquot	The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ice in a Martian Desert The two Mars rover missions have come together in the past few weeks to produce a more complete view of Mars' water history that has implications for life on the planet, though pieces of that picture are still contentious.
Adventure February 2006 Michael Benoist	Living It: Our Man on Mars NASA's planetary scientist Steve Squyres talks about a new book, a big movie, and what it's like to road trip the Red Planet.
Geotimes August 2003 Matt Shindell	Mars Express for geologists Although Mars Express largely relies on old technologies, in many ways replicating past experiments, it can only contribute to an ever-growing body of knowledge about the early history of Mars and its water, and the processes that shape the planet today.
Geotimes March 2004	Standing water on Mars Following on the heels of an announcement two weeks ago that researchers had found direct evidence for groundwater on Mars, the Mars Exploration Rover team said yesterday that they have found evidence for standing water on the planet's surface.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Stephan Nielsen	A Solar Mother Lode for Chile's Mines A desert in the nation's north may be the best place on earth for solar power
Outside May 2008 Grayson Schaffer	Desert Boom Life in Chile's Atacama Desert is hot, dry, and tough. That is, unless you're lying poolside at Tierra Atacama, the latest luxury hotel in the area.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Geotimes October 2004 Naomi Lubick	Traveling on Mars Over the past nine months, Mars' twin rovers have delivered amazing photographs and data to Earth, and now the first published science findings have appeared.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Lots of Water on Mars New mineralogical data and pictures of landforms on Mars show that Earth's rocky neighbor once had a lot of water -- but various interpretations of the data differ on when and where that water may have been.
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	No Lake on Mars? NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team says that the presence of standing water in Mars' geologic past can account for the geologic features and chemistry found in some places there. A group of geologists, however, is now challenging that idea.
Geotimes May 2003 Friedman & Murray	We Can All Go to Mars -- The Mars Outpost Proposal Human exploration or robotic? Two leaders of the Planetary Society suggest how to realize a combination through the Mars Outposts proposal.
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick	Evidence for Water on Mars Flows Scientists have further confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun. And exploration continues to see further signs of water on Mars, from the ground to the sky.
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IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Corfield	Makeshift to Mars The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. How NASA's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach.
Popular Mechanics December 3, 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Why I Hope There's No Life on Mars If Mars is lifeless, that will make exploring -- and later settling -- the planet much easier.
Wired June 2003 Obrist & Koolhaas	Mission to Mars, Utah Affiliated with the Mars Society, William J. Clancey's studies show how humans negotiate small spaces -- how we create routines and behaviors to capitalize on limited resources.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Prachi Patel	One Team's Plan to Win the Google Lunar X Prize For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch -- and land -- is not an option
Smithsonian May 2005 Carl Zimmer	Life on Mars? It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	More on Mars The last few months have held many new discoveries on Mars, including new images of the planet's landslides, caves and polar geysers from the Mars rover, which are giving scientists a closer look at the red planet than ever before.