"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

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"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

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"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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"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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"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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It's back on again.

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"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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"...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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"...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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"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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"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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"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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"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

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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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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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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

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Engineers envision exploring Mars with mini probes...more efficient, more versatile, less of a financial disaster when one goes wrong.

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Method #6576; examine and analyse 'desert varnish'.

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Doesn't seem to be a particularly exciting discovery, but the boffins seem fairly pleased about it anyway. Go figure.

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'Bridget' should succeed where 'Beagle' failed

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