Mars

Crater reveals Mars probably had water within last million years

Posted in Science on 28th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

Astronomers have long been searching for water on Mars, and now new research suggests that watery debris flowed in one of its craters as recently as a million years ago.

DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars

Posted in Science on 25th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

DARPA believes that it's on the way to creating organisms capable of terraforming Mars into a planet that looks more like Earth.

NASA will launch two interplanetary cubesats in 2016

Posted in Science on 17th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space.They will provide NASA the ability to quickly transmit information about the main spacecraft after it lands on Mars.

Japan wants to dig up the dirt on Martian moons

Posted in Science on 13th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

JAXA thinks the mission could launch by 2022. If it gets off the ground, the spacecraft would be the first to land on a Martian moon.

First ever glass deposits found on the surface of Mars

Posted in Science on 10th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

The glass was created when meteorites slammed into the Martian surface with enough force to melt some of the rocks, which then cooled, turning them into impact glass.