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NASA engineer discusses Mars findings
Macon Telegraph, GA - 38 minutes ago
Water, as ice, was found by the Phoenix Mars Lander earlier this year. Next October, NASA engineers will launch the Mars Space Lab, a nuclear-driven ...

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Water ice glaciers spotted on Mars
CNET News, CA - 9 minutes ago
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected what NASA scientists believe are huge glaciers of water ice, lying beneath a layer of rocky debris. ...

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Becker: Surviving winter is no easier on Mars than Boston
Daily Camera, CO - 4 hours ago
This, I believe, is why Boulderites can’t empathize with the Phoenix Mars Lander and its doleful Death by Winter. NASA’s latest robotic geologist, ...

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NASA whittles down list of Mars landing sites
MSNBC - 7 hours ago
During the past two years, multiple observations of dozens of candidate sites by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have augmented data from earlier ...
NASA's Robot Smarts Give Wall-E a Ration of Realism Wired News
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory plans to launch in 2009. The rover is to be powered by nuclear generator (not shown) and will have extensive mobility across the Red Planet.Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.


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Huge glaciers detected under rocky debris on Mars
Reuters - 29 minutes ago
... a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ...

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Happy Birthday: Space station celebrates 10 years
The Associated Press - 4 hours ago
(AP) — NASA couldn't have staged it any better: 10 people in orbit for Thursday's 10th anniversary of the world's most elaborate and expensive housing ...
International Space Station at 10 BBC News
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Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory. The agency had a wider range of possible landing sites to choose from than for any previous mission, thanks to the Mars Science Laboratory's advanced technologies, and the highly capable orbiters helping this mission identify scientifically compelling places to explore.

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NASA Narrows List Of Mars Landing Sites
Aviation Week, NY - 8 hours ago
The NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover team has selected four finalist landing sites, all with ties to Martian water, as it moves toward final site ...
Name the next Mars rover! Discover Magazine
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It Was Discovered That Mars Had Its Ice Age As Well
eFluxMedia - 7 minutes ago
The discovery was made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and it offers new possibilities in the search for life on the ...

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NASA's Robot Smarts Give Wall-E a Ration of Realism
Wired News - 1 hour ago
... DVD release will help NASA name its newest robot: NASA announced a naming contest for its Mars Science Laboratory rover scheduled for launch in 2009. ...

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Perspective view of a mountain in the eastern Hellas region of Mars surrounded by a deposit that scientists think are debris-covered glaciers. Image is 20 miles (31 km) across. Mars has vast glaciers hidden under aprons of rocky debris near mid-latitude mountains, a new study confirms, pointing to a new and large potential reservoir of life-supporting water on the planet.


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Malaysia Star

Huge buried glaciers of water ice found on Mars
iTWire, Australia - 9 hours ago
by William Atkins NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found what is being called "vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective ...
Huge glaciers detected under rocky debris on Mars Reuters
NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars MarketWatch
Buried Glaciers Found on Mars Space.com
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NASA marks 10th ISS anniversary with spacewalk
AFP - 10 hours ago
The US space agency NASA said astronauts Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough left the ISS decompression chamber at 1658 GMT, some 45 minutes earlier ...
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Underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars suggest the planet could sustain life.

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