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  Happy second anniversary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)! This is how ISRO celebrated its two years around Martian orbit (See Pics )

  India | September 27, 2016 11:03 IST

  The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, which entered the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, has completed two years of its life around the red planet. On Saturday while announcing this great news to media, Indian

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  Fossilised riverbeds on Mars suggest it once had a warm, wet climate, claim researchers

  World | August 24, 2016 19:03 IST

  A new research study suggests that about the cold and dry Red Planet once had a warm and wet climate 4 billion years ago. Researchers from the University College London came to this conclusion after

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  NASA's Curiosity rover beams 360-degree panorama of Mars

  World | August 20, 2016 15:18 IST

  NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has captured a magnificent postcard from the Red Planet – a 360-degree panoramic view of features called 'Murray Buttes', combining more than 130 images taken on the fourth anniversary of probe's landing on the red planet.

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  Seashell ‘spotted’ on Mars surface indicates life once existed on the Red Planet

  World | July 29, 2016 12:49 IST

  Alien hunters believe that there was a primitive ocean on Mars that had more water than the Arctic Sea. A broken seashell spotted on the surface further indicates that life once inhabited the ancient sea.

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  Mars makes closest approach to Earth in more than a decade: NASA

  World | June 01, 2016 16:24 IST

  Washington: Mars and Earth got unusually cosy drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade. The two planets passed at 120.7 million kilometres (75 million miles) away from each other

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  Time to become a NASA astronaut and fly to Mars

  World | December 15, 2015 11:12 IST

  Washington: Want to become an astronaut and fly to Red Planet? NASA is now accepting applications for future explorers and the final selection list will be announced in mid-2017.Those chosen may fly on any of

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  Learn how to grow food on Mars

  World | October 21, 2015 13:06 IST

  Washington: Inspired by astronaut Mark Watney, a character played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in the critically acclaimed movie "The Martian", scientists have published the first case study on how future astronauts can learn to

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  NASA prepares 'real Martians' to land and stand on Red Planet

  World | October 01, 2015 13:08 IST

  Washington: As NASA is planning to send humans on Mars by 2030, its researchers back on the Earth are experimenting with astronauts for whom readapting to gravity and walking through the obstacle course after a

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  NASA seeks students' ideas to land manned probe on Mars

  World | September 21, 2015 11:50 IST

  Washington : The US space agency is seeking innovative ideas from students for generating a novel technology that can help land heavy manned spacecrafts safely and swiftly on the surface of Red Planet.Called inflatable spacecraft

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  In Pics: Mangalyaan sends back stunning 3D images of Mars

  India | August 18, 2015 8:30 IST

  Bengaluru: India's Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, has sent home stunning 3D images of the Red Planet's Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the solar system.The images taken by Mars Colour Camera (MCC) onboard Mangalyaan

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  NASA deploys new system to avoid traffic jams at Mars

  World | August 02, 2015 17:52 IST

  Washington:  Five active spacecrafts are now orbiting the Red Planet, including one from India, leaving NASA with no option but to beef up traffic monitoring, communication and manoeuvre planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do

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  NASA to explore safe landing sites on Mars

  World | June 26, 2015 12:02 IST

  Washington: In its bid for the next giant leap to Mars, NASA is seeking ideas for enabling human explorers to safely land, live and work on the Red Planet.NASA's first "Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for

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  NASA's Odyssey set to complete record 60,000th Martian orbit sans pit stops

  World | June 22, 2015 18:09 IST

  Washington:  NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft will complete its 60,000th orbit on June 23 since arriving at the Red Planet in 2001.Jim Green, NASA's director of Planetary Science, said that this orbital milestone is an opportunity

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  ISRO bags Space Pioneer Award for its Mars mission

  India | June 09, 2015 15:04 IST

  Bengaluru: The country's low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US' National Space

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  NASA successfully tests 'flying saucer' for Mars mission

  World | June 09, 2015 12:25 IST

  Washington: After a series of weather-related delays, NASA has successfully tested its revolutionary "flying saucer" that will help land heavier payloads on the surface of long-distance planets, including Mars.NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed

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  Mars missions to rest as Red Planet hides behind Sun

  World | June 08, 2015 13:59 IST

  Washington: From June 7 to June 21, NASA's Mars Missions will not beam any new data to the Earth as the Red Planet goes behind the Sun and the spacecraft and rovers take their biennial

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  NASA seeks public inputs for longer human stay on Mars

  World | May 06, 2015 12:23 IST

  Washington: The US space agency has sought ideas from people about what is necessary to ensure a continuous human presence on the Red Planet.The new NASA challenge invites public to write down their ideas, in

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  Curiosity set to drill into crystal-rich rock on Mars

  World | January 15, 2015 11:39 IST

  Washington: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is all set to drill into a crystal-rich rock on the Red planet to find out salt mineral left behind when lake water evaporated, says an Indian-American scientist associated with

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  Scientists plan to grow lettuce on Mars

  World | January 04, 2015 14:41 IST

  London: A British-led group is planning to grow lettuce on the Red Planet for future dwellers, media reports said.The plan has been proposed by a group of students at Southampton University to send a greenhouse

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  NASA to set test inflatable technology

  World | January 04, 2015 14:21 IST

  Washington: The US space agency is planning to test inflatable spacecraft technology for future missions to Red Planet.For this, NASA scientists are considering to use a blow-up heat shield which resembles stacking ring of doughnuts