Viking tests for Martian life The first spacecraft to land on Mars were the American Viking 1 and 2 probes in 1976. Their mission included testing the planet’s soil for life. However, despite promising early test results, life was not…
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The high-tech craft hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at 13,000mph, and was then slowly lowered by a radical floating ‘sky crane’ before gently arriving in a massive crater. The news was greeted with cheers and shouts in…
Nasa’s Curiosity rover sends back its first colour image of Mars surface More photos and panoramas expected to show ‘a new Mars we have never seen before’ as roving lab powers up to full strength The rover has transmitted its…
Nasa has released a new full-circle image of planet Mars, which it says is the “next best thing to being there”. The view comes from the panoramic camera on Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, combining 817 images. It shows the…
Win a one way seat to Mars! A company will hold a worldwide lottery next year to select 40 people for a training team. They will then set up a mock colony in the desert, possibly somewhere in the U.S., for…
‘Alien skull’ spotted on Mars ? At first glance it looks like a rocky desert – but this image of the Mars landscape has got space-gazers talking. An oddly shaped space boulder appears to show eye sockets and a nose…
Did ancient aliens visit Mars? The evidence from the viking orbiters in the summer of 1976 looks positive. The picture above clearly shows the remains of a human type face looking up into the marsian sky. The picture released by…
A giant space probe is set to plunge into the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of more than 13,000mph in a few weeks’ time. For the following seven minutes, its onboard computer will issue electronic instructions to direct the…
Mars moons to be targets of future Nasa mission Moons could have material from Mars blasted off by asteroid impacts Phobos could be easiest way to find out if there is life on Mars One of the big scientific questions…
New analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows that NASA found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week. Further, NASA doesn’t need a human expedition to Mars to…
