Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
NASA has decided to launch a $1.5 billion Mars mission next fall, but it will need an undisclosed amount of additional money to send the Hummer-sized roving chemistry lab to the Red Planet, space agency officials said Friday.
Mars Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Last year, before Ed Weiler came back to NASA Headquarters to be the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, an internal cost study was done to see how much SMD overruns every year on its various projects and missions.
Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in...
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Barry is an absolute cornucopia of poor judgement, as shown by Red Planet Cartoons dot com....
Modern Mechanix (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
view additional pages Is There Life On Mars? By G. Harry Stine Viking-Aerobee Operations Engineer White Sands Proving Ground AT THIS moment the planet Mars is swinging to within 35,400,000 miles of the Earth—about the closest it ever gets—and astronomers the world over are training their telescopes on it. They will be making drawings, photographs, and spectrographs of [...]
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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Mars Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 10, to brief reporters after a meeting held by the agency's administrator concerning the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. The meeting is to discuss technical and budget issues.
Mars Today (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander continues to dig into the red planet's soil and deliver samples to its onboard science instruments for analysis.
MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
After more than four months on the arctic plains of the red planet, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's days are finally numbered.
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The editorial cartoon above offers what its creator, Red Planet Cartoons, describes as a conservative primer for first-time voters — and it does a great job! My only wish is that the cartoonist would have seen fit to include the image of Barack Obama in the lower panel. In fact, Obama could have been shown standing [...]
Mars Today (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A journey of 7.5 miles began with a partial victory lap around "Victoria Crater," as Opportunity headed south toward enormous "Endeavour Crater." Partway around the circuit, Opportunity passed the 7.5-mile mark of the mission.
Mars Today (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Spirit is poised to begin making more "phone calls" to Earth and engineers are preparing to contact Spirit more frequently as a result of improving solar power input on Mars.
Mars Today (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Local planetary geologist Chris Okubo is on a mission to understand the past roles of groundwater and faulting on Mars by studying similar locations on Earth. Okubo works in the Astrogeology Research Program for the USGS in Flagstaff.
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs created many more characters than the Ape Man and Jane. Over the years, I've probably read more of the John Carter of Mars series than Tarzan books. Burroughs invented the supposed local name for the planet, "Barsoom," and some sources refer to the series by that name. In brief, John Carter gets wafted off to Mars while in...
