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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070623_mars_terraform.html

Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target for the 21st ... websnapr

"Overall, Wood said that a workable plan can be scripted to raise the average temperature of Mars, rid the world of excess carbon dioxide, as well as generate soil to support agriculture." N
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070613_mars_oceans.html

Mystery Solved: Mars Had Large Oceans websnapr

"The once-flat shorelines were disfigured by a massive toppling over of the planet, scientists announced today. The warping of the Martian rock has hidden clear evidence of the oceans..." Oh
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/hq_07118_spirit_discovers_wet_mars.html

NASA - Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of ... websnapr

"A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now." 'Wet M
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070315_martian_beach.html

Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars' South Pole websnapr

"Mars is unlikely to sport beachfront property anytime soon, but the planet has enough water ice at its south pole to blanket the entire planet in more than 30 feet of water if everything thawed
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http://www.universetoday.com/2007/02/21/martian-explorers-should-be-looking-for-fossils/?1325

Martian Explorers Should Be Looking for Fossils websnapr

"Instead of just looking for current life on Mars, Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer thinks that future missions should also be looking for ancient fossils on the Red Planet. In fact
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http://www.physorg.com/news89358769.html

Dig deeper to find Martian life websnapr

"Although current drills may find essential tell-tale signs that life once existed on Mars, cellular life could not survive the radiation levels for long enough any closer to the surface of Mars
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070108125238.htm

Did We 'Kill' Martian Microbes? New Analysis Of Viking ... websnapr

"...even as new missions to Mars seek evidence that the planet might once have supported life, we already have data showing that life exists there now--data from experiments done by the Viking Ma
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http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=873

Reconsidering Viking on Mars websnapr

"...if the Viking scientists had known these results thirty years ago, they would have interpreted Viking’s work differently [...] we can’t discount organic molecules in the soil, which probably
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanid=sa003&articleid=000a1326-800a-153e-800a83414b7f012f&ref=rss

Martian Soils Point to Ancient Acid Ocean--And a Dearth ... websnapr

"High concentrations of phosphorus in a Martian ocean," Greenwood and Blake conclude, "would not be expected if Mars had an active biosphere during the ocean's existence." Martian
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http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn10361&feedid=online-news_rss20

Viking landers may have missed Martian life websnapr

"Researchers now say that the landers’ experiments were not sensitive enough to find life and in any case may not have been able to spot the strange forms that Martian life might take."
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061016105805.htm

Mars Express And The Story Of Water On Mars websnapr

"The big picture of a warm wet Mars is not completely correct. Any warm wet period lasted only a few hundred million years. By four thousand million years ago, it was over..." Interesting st
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/0,71838-0.html?tw=rss.index

Move Into Space, but Where? websnapr

"While the question is not a pressing one for most people, for the futurists mapping the humans path to space, the destination makes all the difference in the world." Orbital colonies get my
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.physorg.com/news75178110.html

Russian space general searches for life on Mars websnapr

Though not in person, obviously. He's the head of the Russian space agency, most of whose workers are paid less than the average shopworker here in the UK, and he's planning a probe to Phobos to colle
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http://www.space.com/news/060804_russia_520days.html

Shut-Ins Wanted: Russia Seeks Volunteers for Simulated ... websnapr

I really am very tempted to sign up for this - the likelihood of them picking an unfit nobody blogger is remote in the extreme, but what is there to lose?
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060731_mars_duststorms.html

Studies Find the Toxic Side of Martian Dust Storms websnapr

Hydrogen peroxide, to be precise - and if that stuff is blowing around over there, the chances of finding life as we know it are significantly lowered...untill next month's academic paper on Mars, of
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.physorg.com/news72444348.html

Balls to Mars! websnapr

Engineers envision exploring Mars with mini probes...more efficient, more versatile, less of a financial disaster when one goes wrong.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9324&feedid=online-news_rss20

Mars rover Spirit finds metallic meteorites websnapr

Doesn't seem to be a particularly exciting discovery, but the boffins seem fairly pleased about it anyway. Go figure.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save

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