Tag: Mars
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At last! Scientists find 12-mile lake on Mars
Is there life on Mars? After decades of study, a body of liquid water has finally been detected on the Red Planet. The discovery raises exciting possibilities for our search for alien life.
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2016 in review: tech CEOs reach for the stars
From colonising Mars to factories in space, Silicon Valley billionaires are looking up. (Literally.) And yet NASA’s future is unclear. Who should lead the space race in the 21st century?
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ExoMars ready to resume search for alien life
European ministers will decide this week whether to invest £350m in a project to put a rover on Mars. ExoMars will search for life on the red planet — so what if life is actually discovered?
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Europe’s first Mars mission prepares to land
With luck, the ExoMars spacecrafts will start looking for life on Mars today. The mission is set to take decades and cost £1.16bn. Can such a risky project justify such huge expense?
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Daring. Crazy. Visionary. A colony on Mars
A billionaire inventor has announced detailed plans to establish a colony on Mars. The risk of death will be ‘high’. But for our species to survive, he says, we must become ‘interplanetary’.
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Eureka! Liquid water on Mars, confirms NASA
Yesterday NASA confirmed that there is liquid water on the surface of Mars, making alien life and human settlement on the planet more likely. Is colonisation a good idea?
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NASA launches stage one of its mission to Mars
After three years without any vehicle for manned space flight, NASA is taking the first step towards Mars with a new spacecraft, Orion. But is the programme worth its astronomical cost?
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India joins space elite with mission to Mars
On its first attempt, India has put a satellite into orbit around Mars. It is an outstanding achievement. But is a space programme a luxury for a nation with so many problems on earth?
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India’s Mars mission launches Asian space race
India is bidding for global prestige with an ambitious unmanned voyage to Mars. But with hundreds of millions of citizens locked in poverty, does the government have its priorities wrong?
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Spirit of adventure fuels space tourism ‘boom’
Thousands have applied for a one-way ticket to the planet Mars, and space tours are becoming a more realistic prospect. Are these would-be explorers of new horizons mad or brave?
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Robot explorer finds ancient lakes on Mars
The Mars rover Curiosity has found evidence that water once flowed on Earth’s next-door neighbour. Why is this exciting? Because where there is water, there may be life.
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Mental health strained by mock Mars mission
They were six of the most resilient astronauts around. But trapped in a room for 17 months on a simulated voyage to Mars, their minds began to crack. Are we too fragile for life off-planet?
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Year in review: technology triumphs of 2012
Technology is developing at breakneck pace. As 2012 comes to an end, we look back at the top tech stories that have defined the year, and could shape the future.
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SPECIAL: Summer stories you may have missed
Mars landings, punk protests, civil war, Olympics: it has been an eventful six weeks. In case you have not been paying full attention, here is a recap of some of the highlights.
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Martian-hunting robot successfully touches down
After ‘seven minutes of terror’, NASA’s Mars rover touched down on the Red Planet yesterday morning. It is the most complex robot Mars has yet seen. Its objective: evidence of alien life.