FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water
Thanks, science
29 Sep 2021
Articles about Mars
NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet
Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise?
29 Sep 2021
Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter
In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine
14 Sep 2021
NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day
Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though...
14 Sep 2021
Perseverance rover drilled a rock on Mars and probably snaffled a core sample
Now to enact humanity's cunning interplanetary kidnapping plan
03 Sep 2021
Perseverance to take a second stab at Martian rocks ... but first it has to scratch'n'sniff
Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth
27 Aug 2021
Everyone's going to Mars: Rocket Lab joins the Red Planet Fan Club
An interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket
23 Aug 2021
China's Mars rover assigned extended mission after exceeding life expectancy
But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun
23 Aug 2021
NASA blames the wrong kind of Martian rock for Perseverance sample failure
Not a hardware or software bug, for a change
12 Aug 2021
NASA comes up empty on Perseverance rover's first Mars sample drilling attempt
Suspects rocks are the problem, not probe
09 Aug 2021
NASA warns Mars: We're about to laser your rocks and start stealing them
Perseverance prepares to snaffle first sample for eventual retrieval
22 Jul 2021
NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities
AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans?
02 Jul 2021
NASA's InSight lander expected to survive most of summer before choking to death on Martian dust
Why can't Ingenuity use its blades to clear panels? It's 2,145 miles away
28 Jun 2021
Mars race: China dreams of nuclear rockets, manned bases, and space elevators
We're looking forward to the late 21st-century colony wars
25 Jun 2021
Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before
All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars
11 Jun 2021
Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars
ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes
24 May 2021
Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet
Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent
19 May 2021
China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet
Updated 'An important step in our country’s interplanetary exploration journey' – state media
14 May 2021
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