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Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	No Lake on Mars? A group of geologists is contesting the idea that the landing location of the Mars rover Opportunity is the site of an evaporated lake, a debate that will not dry up anytime soon.
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 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.
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.
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater.
Geotimes May 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Robotic Field Geologists Take to Mars Next month, the first of two twin robotic geologists will head to the Red Planet, armed with a suite of tools for conducting geology on the harsh Martian surface.
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.
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Mars Had Explosive, Watery Past NASA's Mars rover Spirit hit a grand slam this spring when it rolled across Home Plate, a plateau feature on Mars that revealed clues supporting an explosive past for the planet.
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 May 2003 Golombek et al.	Landing the Mars Exploration Rovers Deciding where on Mars to land each of the two exploration rovers has occupied more than two years of research and analysis. With the help of the planetary sciences community, mission planners have narrowed the field from hundreds to just two.
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.
Geotimes January 2005	Opportunity Snaps Meridiani on Mars Opportunity found some of the first evidence of water on Mars in "blueberries," tiny hematite concretions that may have been deposited in shallow-water environments.
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.
Scientific American November 2005 David Grinspoon	Making Tracks on Mars Book Reviews: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres... Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley...
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
Geotimes July 2003 Matt Shindell	NASA's Opportunity finally knocks Waiting for a NASA launch can sometimes be like waiting for Godot.
Geotimes March 2004	NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars update: a pixel at a time The two rovers on Mars are on the move. Spirit, after 10-day lapse in memory, now functions again after efforts by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Its twin explorer, Opportunity, has been traveling in its own crater, halfway around the planet.
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?
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone.
Geotimes June 2003	NASA cautiously raises "Spirit" to Mars And they're off! Well, one of them is anyway. As far as getting the new Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs) up through the atmosphere and out past the thermosphere is concerned, NASA has hit its half-way mark.
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 April 15, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Mars meteor gets a boost of youth A Martian meteorite that has played a pivotal role in our understanding of the Solar System has been found to be half a billion years younger than previously thought, say US researchers.
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.
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 July 2004 Sara Pratt	Core Compositions Scientists are working to explain the differences in composition between Earth and Mars.
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 February 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Water Responsible for Martian Landscape? The remnants of a recent debris flow turned up in photos of a gully on Mars. Some researchers speculate the flow could imply the presence of water, while others think it resulted from a dry, granular flow.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.
AskMen.com	Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA.
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.
Car and Driver December 2006 Aaron Robinson	Mars Rover. Rover and Out. After 300 million miles, NASA coaxes a few more feet from its $820 million beaters.
Chemistry World April 6, 2011 Mike Brown	Mars chemistry reveals how red planet cooled The chemistry of volcanic rock on Mars offers a picture of the thermal history of the planet, according to scientists in France. The findings could provide a reference point for the evolution of other planets, they say.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge	8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results.
Chemistry World October 16, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Cheers as Mars x-ray spectrometer delivers rock data Space scientists are celebrating the arrival of the first set of data from the Mars Curiosity Rover's alpha-particle x-ray spectrometer -- APXS -- which has analyzed the chemical composition of a small triangular wedge of rock on the surface of the planet.
Scientific American May 8, 2006 Graham P. Collins	Chaos in the Crater Welcome to the Vredefort Crater, a real Bermuda Triangle about 100 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. It is the oldest and largest impact remnant on the planet, created by an asteroid about two billion years ago.
Geotimes May 2005 Megan Sever	Meteor Crater's Slow Impact New findings suggest that rather than one large meteorite striking the ground at a high velocity, a lower velocity, pancake-shaped swarm of meteorite pieces -- formed from the explosion a larger meteorite -- likely carved out Meteor Crater.
Geotimes October 2003 Naomi Lubick	Water clues from martian carbonates For the first time, scientists have convincingly detected small yet possibly widespread amounts of carbonate minerals in the dust on Mars' surface. The findings provide new hints about water on Mars, as well as the history of the planet's atmosphere.
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.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Andrew Kessler	After 'Hole-in-One' Landing, Phoenix Mission Control Digs Ahead Though mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab may have temporarily been at the helm of the Phoenix Mars Lander, it's the science team here at the University of Arizona that will steer the rest of the landmark mission.
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.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.
Chemistry World February 19, 2015 Katrina Kramer	Mars 3-D Having previously only had a vague interest in the Mars missions, Nasa investigator Jim Bell's book certainly got me hooked.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Roving for Martian Designs Fifth-grade students from Texas take first place at the Third Annual Mars Rover Competition. Their rover was designed to furnish Mars with plants for oxygen and food for future human settlement.
Science News September 20, 2003	More Mars -- Better than Ever On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth were closer to each other than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. Even as Earth and Mars slowly draw apart, the Red Planet remains a dazzling sight in the night sky. There's still time to take in the view.