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View ArticleFear of a Red planet is just what we need
The news media reported last week that NASA’s robot rover Spirit, stuck in the Martian equivalent of a ditch, is still spinning its wheels in the deep powder like some suburban doofus trying to free...
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Destination Mars
Pascal Lee/Mars Institute/Haught NASA/JPL/ Nadav Neuhaus Viewed through a telescope on a clear night, the planet Mars glows a soft, dullish red. It seems foreign and strange, but familiar, too: like...
View ArticleIdea alert
Marc Garneau proposes a mission to Mars. I’m talking about a robotic mission. Except for the launch part. We would need another nation’s involvement for the rocket part and we would share the...
View ArticleMars landing site announced for NASA rover
NASA has chosen a landing site on Mars for its Curiosity rover, which is set to launch later this year and will continue the search for signs of whether Mars was ever inhabitable. On Friday, NASA...
View ArticleMartian discovery boggles scientists
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2004, has finally reached a distant crater named Endeavour—and the first rock it examined there already has scientists cheering. The...
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Long trip to nowhere
Oleg Voloshin/AFP/Getty Images On Nov. 4, six figures emerged pale and blinking from a windowless module stationed in a Moscow parking lot. These men—three Russians, one Chinese, a Frenchman and an...
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How we could colonize Mars if we wanted to
Let’s say we want to colonize Mars. Or better yet, let’s say we need to colonize Mars. After all, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking—a rather smart fella, if ever there was one—has said...
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One-ton rover gets to work on Mars
The Mars Science Laboratory team celebrates (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech) On Monday at 1:32 a.m. Eastern time, NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars to begin its two-year hunt for signs that the...
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Photos from Mars are rolling in, courtesy of Curiosity
After landing on Mars earlier this week, NASA’s Curiosity rover—a one-ton robotic explorer searching for signs of life—is beaming back its first images. NASA’s now released several of them, including...
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(Married) life on Mars: Did you try to kill me again last night, dear?
Photo illustration by Taylor Shute Looking for a fun getaway with the man or woman you love? Consider a trip to Mars! It’s a journey you’ll cherish until the day you die—which, for the record, will be...
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Life on Mars
Roman Cho/Getty Images On March 12, John Grotzinger and a team of NASA scientists made a stunning announcement: Mars once had the right conditions for life, with flowing surface water so benign we...
View ArticleAt least 35 Canadians have applied for one-way trip to Mars
MONTREAL – Andrew Rader has always wanted to be an astronaut and he’s ready to do anything to get into space — even spend the rest of his life on Mars. The Ottawa native is one of at least 35 Canadians...
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Dreaming of life on Mars
Canadians really want to go to Mars—and don’t want to come back. Mars One, the not-for-profit organization seeking to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023, closed its application...
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So there’s no life on Mars — that just means there’s more room for us
NASA / New York Times / Redux NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has reminded everyone that curiosity is a virtue not always rewarded justly. On Sept. 19, NASA announced that an instrument on the...
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Red dawn
PL-Caltech/NASA Mars today is a freeze-dried and rusted desert. But this year, a picture of a very different Mars began to emerge: Four billion years ago, scientists believe, Mars had a thicker...
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Boeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to space station
(NASA/European Space Agency/AP) Aviation giant Boeing and billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX have won contracts to deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) beginning in 2017. NASA...
View ArticleNASA spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit almost a year after launching
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Maven spacecraft arrived at Mars late Sunday after a 711 million kilometre journey that began nearly a year ago. The robotic explorer fired its brakes and successfully...
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India’s @MarsOrbiter shares snapshot of red planet with Twitterverse
This image provided by the Indian Government Press Information Bureau shows what the agency says is one of the first images of the surface of Mars taken by Indiaís Mars Orbiter Mission satellite, on...
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Newsmaker of the day: Orion and NASA’s mission to Mars
Joe Raedle/Getty Images When the spacecraft Orion launched into orbit this morning at 7:05 (EST), it marked “Day One of the Mars era,” according to NASA administrator Charles Bolden. With 1,200 sensors...
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Curiosity Rover finds new evidence of water on Mars
PL-Caltech/NASA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Curiosity rover is helping scientists close in on a Martian mystery: Why does a mountain jut out of a barren crater? Scientists said Monday that rock...
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Newsmaker of the day: Chris Hadfield
PL-Caltech/NASA Newsmaker of the day: Chris Hadfield Mankind made “one giant leap” 45 years ago when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and now the next big step for many is Mars. Last week, the...
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Newsmakers of the day: Canada’s Mars One semi-finalists
PL-Caltech/NASA Six Canadians just got one step closer to living every kid’s dream. Today, Mars One released the names of 100 semifinalists in the running to take part in the highly ambitious—or...
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Is this the spacesuit of the future?
A rendering of the Z2 spacesuit, designed for Mars’s airless environment. (NASA) Mars is a hostile neighbour. Its average temperature hovers around -60 °C, although it can dip as low as -125 °C in...
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What do Canada’s astronauts think of the Mars One program?
PL-Caltech/NASA For a special Space issue of Maclean’s—on digital and physical newsstands now—we spoke with nine Canadian astronauts, seven of whom have been in space. Here are excerpts from those...
View ArticleVideo: NASA announces major Mars water discovery
A Martian mystery is solved: Far from being an arid, freeze-dried desert, water, it seems, flows on Mars even today—that’s according to new research being presented in the journal Nature Geoscience....
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Mars appears to have flowing streams of salty water: NASA
In the search for potential areas with recurring slope lineae (RSL), which are probably caused by briny water, the central peak of Hale Crater is a common target. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) CAPE...
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There’s water on Mars—but is there life?
This image shows the central peak in Porter Crater. Although there are no repeat images here we can infer several active geologic processes, based on morphologic evidence and lessons learned from past...
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Mars: When do we get to visit?
This image shows RSL extending downhill from bedrock cliffs, mostly towards the northwest (upper left). This image was acquired in middle summer when RSL are most active in the southern mid latitudes....
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The interview: Matt Damon on living like a Martian
Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian. (Twentieth Century Fox) In The Martian, the new film from Ridley Scott, Matt Damon’s character, a NASA astronaut, finds himself stranded on Mars,...
View ArticleElon Musk unveils plans to colonize Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On a personal quest to settle Mars, SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to the red planet well within the next century, “Battlestar...
View ArticleBarack Obama still wants humans to land on Mars
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the United States is partnering with commercial companies to build “new habitats” to try to send humans safely to Mars within two decades. Obama set a goal in...
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Europe’s Mars probe thought to have crash-landed
NASA thinks the black mark left on the surface of Mars is where the Schiaparelli lander may have exploded on impact. (Image via NASA) BERLIN – Europe’s experimental Mars probe hit the right spot – but...
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Why Saturn’s moon Titan is the best spot for an off-world colony
With the likes of Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and even Donald Trump talking up manned missions to Mars, an exciting new life may await us in the off-world colonies. But is the red planet a red herring?...
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Ray Bradbury: The Mad Wizards of Mars
From The Maclean’s Archives. Learn more or sign up now for your 30-day free trial. View Full Issue Click to View Article Pages 2021 September 15 1949 View Full Issue View Article Pages THEIR EYES were...
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