Mars

Here's How We'll Terraform Mars With Microbes

Posted in Science on 8th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

Could our planet's toughest microbes change the face of Mars?

Hidden water below Antarctica provides hope for life on Mars

Posted in Science on 29th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Antarctica is the Earth environment that most resembles Mars.

Evidence of liquid water found on Mars

Posted in Science on 14th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its freezing point, allowing brine to form.

150 billion cubic meters of water ice on Mars in glaciers covered by dust

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

Studies have now calculated the size of the glaciers and thus the amount of water. It is the equivalent of all of Mars being covered by more than one meter of ice.

NASA Selects Companies to Develop Super-Fast Engine

Posted in Hardware on 4th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA announced it will partner with companies to create more advanced space technology, including a new engine that could get humans to Mars in less than 40 days.