#mars


surviving seven minutes of martian terror

All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
surviving seven minutes of martian terror

astrobiologists' frustrating martian paradox

Mars should have some sort of live according to all the evidence we've gathered so far. But do we really know for what we're looking?
astrobiologists' frustrating martian paradox

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why getting humans to mars will not come cheap

If we're going to go to Mars and do it right, we should be ready for the price tag.
why getting humans to mars will not come cheap

why martian microbes won't outnumber earth's

A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
why martian microbes won't outnumber earth's

all aboard the good, old spaceship phobos?

An old variant of the ancient alien theory says that Phobos isn't a moon, but an abandoned spaceship. It's a surprisingly possible, if unlikely, idea.
all aboard the good, old spaceship phobos?

cold? what cold? it's the uv rays that'll kill you

Mars isn't a hostile desert because its cold and has a barely-there atmosphere. It's because killer UV rays are constantly sterilizing its surface.
cold? what cold? it's the uv rays that'll kill you

why we're not ready for mars just yet

One day, we'll make it to Mars. But before we do that, we have to answer a lot of questions and think really hard about why we're going.
why we're not ready for mars just yet

searching for the virus of life

Life, uh, finds a way. But how would it finds its way on Mars?
searching for the virus of life

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