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Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
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.
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Mars is the planet that never grew up Scientists in the US have analysed isotopes in meteorites that resemble Martian geology and have discovered that the planet stopped growing while its solar system siblings carried on developing.
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.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Young Planets Collide Size mattered, astronomers say, when it came to whether or not material in our early solar system stuck together to become today's terrestrial planets. New models suggest that collisions between large objects did not always result in those objects combining, as previously thought.
Geotimes June 2005 Sara Pratt	Revising the Asteroid Threat Scale Although scientists still assign Torino Impact Hazard Scale values via the same method, the language used to describe some levels has now changed to better inform the public -- and the media -- of the risk without unintentionally scaring people.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA: "There Is Liquid Water Today On The Surface Of Mars" This is huge news for space agencies worldwide, and could make it easier to look for signs of life on the red planet.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars Update: Opportunity lands Two rovers now inhabit Mars, after the latest of NASA's robot explorers, Opportunity, landed safely over the weekend. Following a brief hiccup last week when its twin went momentarily silent, Opportunity touched down on Saturday night, half a planet away from Spirit.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Orbiter Tracks Changes on Mars NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars, continues to observe the Martian landscape.
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.
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi	Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Mars Gets Broadband Connection NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with its onboard Electra UHF relay transceiver, will serve as an engineering test bed for new communications and navigation technology.
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson	Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible.
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?
Geotimes January 2004 Richard P. Binzel	Asteroid Futures The efforts to locate large asteroids that might impact Earth, and what could be done if a threat was found.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak	A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos
Popular Mechanics October 9, 2008 Thomas D. Jones	Why the World Needs Asteroid Insurance: Resident Astronaut Meteors, or bolides, strike Earth routinely, part of the hundred tons or so of cosmic debris that rain down on us every day. We orbit the Sun in a cosmic shooting gallery
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 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.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 2006 David Noland	The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years.
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 November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye	NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	NASA's New Office Wants To Save Earth From Asteroids In a move that could easily double as a plotline in a sci-fi flick, NASA has created a task force that will be charged with scouting for asteroids and other potentially devastating threats to planet Earth.
Wired July 2001 Tom McNichol	The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars...
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.
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 April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff	Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz	Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland	Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.
Popular Mechanics November 19, 2009 Stephen Ornes	This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it
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.
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.
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.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
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.
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.
T.H.E. Journal June 2006	Online Learning Students in grades 5-12 can explore the surface of Mars this summer with World Book's special online feature, "Exploring the Red Planet," dedicated to the 2003 series of missions to Mars.
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	Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space...
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet.
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	A Toastier Mars Mars may currently be too chilly for human colonists, but a University of Arizona student named Rigel Woida is out to change that.
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 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.