B.C. prof on Mars mission launching in 2016
Robot will help us understand how planets evolve
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View ArticleNearly 7,000 Canadians apply for Mars colony
These folks are fine with leaving Earth behind
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...
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