Life on Mars: Hopefully It's Dead
If scientists or rovers ever do find evidence of life on Mars, it might be more convenient if it's dead, joked NASA planetary scientist Chris McKay today at the annual American Association for the...
View ArticleHunt for Extraterrestrial Life Guides Next Wave of Space Exploration Missions
Sample Return Mission Coming in hot! NASA/JPL NASA's search for extraterrestrial life could result in missions such as a balloon or boat-like capsule on Titan, or even a complex three-part Mars...
View ArticleBipedal Japanese Robot Will Walk on the Moon by 2015
Maido-Kun That's one small step for robots, one giant leap sideways for space exploration. SOHLA Japan's robot love is set to go out of this world with a plan to put a bipedal robot on the moon by...
View ArticleCongratulations, Spirit! Rover Is Now the Longest-Running Mission to the Red...
Spirit, via artist's rendering A stuck robotic rover may have overtaken NASA's Viking probe as the longest-surviving mission on Mars -- so long as it's still alive. But its robotic twin Opportunity...
View ArticleThis Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw
Resting in Peace NASA Despite NASA's attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our...
View ArticleHunt for Extraterrestrial Life Guides Next Wave of Space Exploration Missions
NASA's search for extraterrestrial life could result in missions such as a balloon or boat-like capsule on Titan, or even a complex three-part Mars mission to return a Martian sample to Earth. Until...
View ArticleBipedal Japanese Robot Will Walk on the Moon by 2015
Japan's robot love is set to go out of this world with a plan to put a bipedal robot on the moon by 2015. Yet the bipedal robot's main mission seems curiously lacking in…
View ArticleCongratulations, Spirit! Rover Is Now the Longest-Running Mission to the Red...
A stuck robotic rover may have overtaken NASA's Viking probe as the longest-surviving mission on Mars -- so long as it's still alive. But its robotic twin Opportunity could…
View ArticleThis Is the Last Image the Spirit Mars Rover Ever Saw
Despite NASA’s attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our …
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