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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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo |
Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science |
Scientific American August 2008 Philip Yam |
New Close-Ups on Mars, Courtesy of Phoenix The Mars Phoenix lander became Earth's sixth successful visitor to the surface of the Red Planet. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics December 14, 2009 Dan Carney |
Off-Roaders Offer Tips for Getting NASA's Spirit Out of Mars Sand NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, has been stuck in Martian sand since May. Professional off-road racers weigh in on how to get the vehicle unstuck. |
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
As Phoenix Mission Ends, Project Leaders Chart Mars Future The Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the harsh martian winter brings its death, said the project's science leader, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. |
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 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. |
Science News January 22, 2005 |
A Year on Mars Catch up with the amazing, ongoing adventures of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, still ticking on the surface of Mars. |
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. |
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 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 September 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater. |
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 |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA Considering Mars Drone For 2020 Rover The next NASA Mars rover may include a helper drone. |
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 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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Curiosity's 1-Ton Touchdown The Mars rover will rely on dead reckoning and radar to land on the Red Planet |
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 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. |
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. |
Chemistry World September 12, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Q and A: The hunt for water on Mars The Phoenix Lander has been digging for water on Mars since late May 2008. Yet despite the best efforts of the NASA scientists at the controls, the solar-powered robot has hit nothing but ice. |
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Erik Sofge |
NASA's New Rover to Looks for More Water on Mars The robot invasion of Mars will continue when the unmanned Phoenix Mars Lander touches down in the planet's northern polar region next year. I |
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. |
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. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
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. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2012 James Urquhart |
Curiosity detect hints of complex organics Nasa's Curiosity rover has detected a range of chemical species including chlorinated hydrocarbons on the surface of Mars -- indicators that point to the presence of complex organic molecules. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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 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. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Wired August 2004 Erik Davis |
Mars Gone Wild Poring over pictures of the Red Planet, widely available online, millions of amateur astronomers are coming up with their own Martian theories. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale |
Phoenix Mars mission uses Actel RTAX-S FPGAs The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station which is used to acquire, process and transmit temperature and pressure data to scientists and researchers back on Earth. |
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... |
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. |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond. |
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. |
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. |