All posts tagged "Mars"

  • This undated photo provided by NASA and taken by an instrument aboard the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks on the surface of Mars that scientists believe were caused by flowing streams of salty water. Researchers said Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, that the latest observations strongly support the longtime theory that salt water in liquid form flows down certain Martian slopes each summer. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona via AP)
    NASA discovers flowing water on Mars

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars appears to be flowing with rivulets of salty water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that boosts the odds of life on the red planet. “It...

    • Posted September 28, 2015
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  • This Aug. 15, 2014, composite image released by NASA and made by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows a view looking back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, Cornell University, Arizona State University)
    NASA’s Mars Rover arrives at Mount Sharp

    PASADENA (CNS) – The Mars rover Curiosity arrived at its primary destination on the Red Planet and is set to begin a new phase of its scientific mission as it treks along a mountain the size of Mount Rainier,...

    • Posted September 11, 2014
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