India's Mars mission to last many years: top space official
New Delhi (XNA) Sep 23, 2015 -
India's Mars mission will last for many years as it has so far not experienced any failures, a top space official has reportedly said.
"Mars (mission) is expected to last for many years now because it has gone through solar conjunction also; so we don't see much of a problem," A.S. Kiran Kumar, chief of the state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation, told the media in the southern city ...
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NASA's MAVEN Celebrates One Year at Mars
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 23, 2015 -
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been in orbit around Mars for one Earth year. MAVEN was launched to Mars on Nov. 18, 2013 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and successfully entered Mars' orbit on Sept. 21, 2014.
"The success of the mission so far is a direct result of the incredibly hard work of everybody who is working and has worked on ...
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The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 23, 2015 -
For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars. As mankind comes closer to taking its first steps on the Red Planet, authors' depictions of the experience have become more realistic.
Andy Weir's "The Martian" begins with a massive dust storm that strands fictional astronaut Mark Watney on Mars. In t ...
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NASA's Space Launch System is the Rocket for the Ride to Mars
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 23, 2015 -
NASA is going to Mars, and here on Earth, the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the first stop for building the world's most powerful rocket for the ride - the Space Launch System (SLS).
The SLS will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon more than 40 years ago. It will expand our reach in the solar s ...
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Celebrating one year of Mars Orbiter Mission in Orbit; Release of Mars Atlas
New Delhi, India (SPX) Sep 25, 2015 -
Mars Orbiter spacecraft marks one year of its life around the red planet today. After successfully completing one year of the mission life around Mars, now a large data set has been acquired by all five payloads of MOM.
On this occasion Space Applications Centre, (ISRO), Ahmedabad has brought out a Mar Atlas which contains a compilation of images acquired by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and re ...
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Space experts swoon for 'The Martian' despite inaccuracies
Miami (AFP) Sept 25, 2015 -
Surviving in space is hard and scientists say "The Martian" shows precisely what challenges astronauts will face on a pioneering mission to Mars, even though it contains some big inaccuracies right from the get-go.
Case in point - the colossal storm that causes the crew to abandon the movie's main character, botanist Mark Watney played by Matt Damon, would not have packed much of a punch on ...
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Evidence of brine 'flows' on Mars: water study
Paris (AFP) Sept 28, 2015 -
Curious lines running down slopes on the Martian surface may be streaks of super-salty brine, said the latest findings Monday in the scientific quest for extra-terrestrial liquid water, a prerequisite for life.
A team from the United States and France said it found evidence in the lines of "hydrated" salt minerals, which require water for their creation.
These results "strongly support t ...
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