Red Planet
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Is there an alien 'coffin' on the Red Planet?
World | Dec 29, 2014, 07:58 PM ISTNew York: Hunters of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have spotted an object that looks strangely like a coffin on the Martian surface.In the video posted on YouTube, spotting the alien coffin is difficult to view
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Alien rock brimming with traces of life on Mars
World | Dec 03, 2014, 11:15 AM ISTLondon: An international team has performed a detailed analysis of organic carbon traces from a Martian meteorite, concluding that life on Red Planet is more probable than previously thought.The scientists argue that carbon could have
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'Beam Me to Mars' sends 90,000 messages into space
World | Nov 30, 2014, 02:08 PM ISTWashington: In a tribute to NASA's first successful mission to Mars 50 years ago, the space funding corporation Uwingu sent nearly 90,000 personal messages by radio into space.The Mariner 4 mission was successfully launched on
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Curiosity rover to probe mysterious rocks on Mars
World | Nov 21, 2014, 11:10 AM ISTNew York: The US space agency has directed its Mars rover Curiosity to probe mysterious rocks on Red Planet.The rover is currently investigating an outcrop called Pahrump Hills at its destination mountain "Mount Sharp".“We see
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'Mars One' not ready to colonise humans on Red Planet
World | Oct 15, 2014, 11:15 AM ISTWashington: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have questioned the technical feasibility of the 'Mars One' project that aims to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025.'Mars One' is
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US, India to collaborate on Mars exploration
World | Oct 01, 2014, 07:07 AM ISTWashington: India and the US, after sending their own respective spacecraft into Mars' orbit, have now agreed to cooperate on future explorations of the Red Planet, which America said will yield ‘tangible benefits' to both
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5 amazing things that cost more than India's successful Mars Mission
India | Sep 25, 2014, 05:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: We Indians are known for getting things done at cheap prices and today our Scientists have proved it to the world. The country's Mangalyaan satellite successfully made it into orbit around the Mars
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India will explore Mars for life-sustaining elements
India | Sep 24, 2014, 04:53 PM ISTBangalore: Five scientific instruments onboard the Indian spacecraft will explore Mars during the next six months in search of life-sustaining elements on the Red Planet."Though our spacecraft will take 77 hours or 3.2 earth days
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India's Mars Orbiter crosses half-way mark on journey to Red Planet
India | Apr 10, 2014, 11:55 AM ISTNew Delhi: India's first interplanetary exploration programme, The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has crossed the half-way mark on Wednesday morning by traveling over 340 million km on its long journey towards the Red planet.In a
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You can grow food on Mars, says Researcher
World | Jan 17, 2014, 11:39 AM ISTThe Hague: Growing food on a frozen desert planet with a suffocatingly thin atmosphere, however, will be a challenge. Scientists are now bioengineering plants that can grow on mars.To investigate whether it is possible to
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Know the secret of the origin of planet Mars
World | Jul 21, 2014, 07:59 AM ISTNew Delhi: Munir Humayun, a scientist at Florida State University, has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust.Munir Humayun is a professor in FSU's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric
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Curiosity rover snaps billion-pixel photo of Mars
World | Jun 21, 2013, 05:51 PM ISTWashington, June 21: NASA's rover Curiosity has captured a stunning 1.3-billion-pixel image of Mars that would allow viewers to zoom in and investigate parts of the Red Planet in incredible detail.The first NASA-produced view from
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Mars could have supported life, claims NASA
World | Mar 13, 2013, 06:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Curiosity rover has found the best evidence yet that Mars was once a habitable planet.The rover made the discovery by collecting rock samples using its on-board drilling tool and analyzing them using
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Mars rover Curiosity begins exploration of red planet
World | Aug 23, 2012, 07:00 PM ISTPasadena, Calif, Aug 23: NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test drive around the gravel-strewn Martian terrain on Wednesday, in preparation for the ultimate road trip to find out if life could have existed on
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Mars mission to boost India's credentials, says Kasturirangan
India | Aug 20, 2012, 02:38 PM ISTBangalore, Aug 20: India's proposed Mars mission in November next year would boost its credentials to take part in possible international collaborative ventures on exploring the Red Planet.“Besides doing it on its own, ISRO will
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Mock Russian Mars Mission Ready For Landing On Red Planet
World | Feb 14, 2011, 07:25 PM ISTMoscow, Feb 14: After 257 days in a locked steel capsule, an international crew of six researchers on a mock trip to Mars prepared Monday to simulate landing on the Red Planet.The crew of three