Mars

MARS ONE: Mars-Bound Candidate Walks Away – Pulls Back the Curtain Revealing a Mess or is it?

Since the first announcement of the Mars One program, people have either picked up the story and hailed it with headlines trumpeting our colonization of the red planet or they’ve been standing there with confused looks slapped on their...

Opportunity Rover Celebrates 11 Years on Mars

What was supposed to be a hopeful three month mission has quietly stretched into an unbelievable journey. Opportunity bounced onto Mars back in 2004. During that time the little rover has traveled twenty six miles and transmitted a lot of...

The Face on Mars

U.S. Leads Applicants in One-Way Ticket To Mars!

The totals are in for all the people who are ready to get off this rock and get to colonizing Mars. Mars-One, the program that’s planning on getting people to Mars to begin the colonization process in the very near future, have tallied the...

Meteorites Reveal More Water on Mars Than Thought!

Science can’t seem to make up its mind about Mars. Over one hundred years ago, scientists thought that Mars ran wild with water. Many decades later, scientists discovered they were wrong and that the planet may have once had water but was...

The Monolith of Mars

Is this a 2001: A Space Odyssey style monolith plopped on the surface of Mars? Kind of. Maybe. Not really. But it still looks awesome. [Yahoo]

How Much Does a Piece of Mars Rock Cost?

Pieces of Mars (thankfully not Drops of Jupiter) crashed to Earth last year in Morocco. Pieces of the rock are trading for $8,500 per ounce at minimum and $28,350 at max. To keep that in perspective, Gold is currently trading at $1,650....

Man Claims Obama Teleported to Mars as a Teenager, White House Denies

And so was birthed, the Mars-er. In a shocking new revelation surely set to explode into the national conversation as our 2012 election draws closer, a man has claimed that a 19-year-old Barack Obama teleported to Mars twice as part of a...

Send Your Name To Mars

You have until June 13th to submit your name to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be included on a microchip in the Mars Science Laboratory rover which is headed to Mars later this year. To date 1,171,344 names have been submitted and...

Google Mars Anomaly

So, yeah. 71 49 19.73n 29 33 06.53w in Google Mars if you want to see it yourself. What do you think it is? [Sighting UFO]

Did Space X just show its secret plans for a mission to Mars?

Space X released a video today showing their plans and capabilities for their Dragon space capsule. Besides the ability to ferry crew to and from orbit and to the International Space Station, Elon Musk, head of Space X has said that the...

Elon Musk Says Falcon 9 Heavy Rocket Could Successfully Go To Mars And Back

Elon Musk’s Space X promised a big announcement today and it was the unveiling of the Falcon Heavy. The short list of features: it can put 100,000 – 120,000 lbs. in orbit, has the thrust capacity of 15 Boeing 747s combined, is 30% the cost...

Are We Descended From Martians?

If one day, in a shiny future filled with hope and promise science and engineering finally succeeds in putting the feet of a human on Mars, we could just be returning home. That is the theory of one MIT research team which aims to...

Did Mars Suffer From A Natural Nuclear Explosion?

Mars is the bomb. Or rather, may have been bombed. But not by rogue Martians or those weenusmunchers from Venus. No, it was totally natural. This explosion wiped out all life on the planet and left it a wasteland of red sand. At least,...

Does Methane On Mars = Sign Of Life?

Possibly. But probably not. [Pop Sci]

Who Created A Smooth 200-Yard Trench On Mars?

Well… duh. Other theories (notably less awesome than an all powerful, semi-emo superman) include an “oblique impact, when a small body struck the surface at a very shallow angle.” Boring. [Pop Sci]

Dismissed Study Alleging Proof Of Martian Life On Earth Finds New Support

In 1996 a team of NASA scientists published a study saying the they’d found signs of life on a Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1984. They were summarily dismissed by many. 14 years later, as science has caught up, their findings...

7th Graders Pwns Geological Surveyors By Finding Unknown Mars Cave Opening

I believe that children are the future, give them pictures of Mars and let them find the caves. A heretofore unidentified Martian cave opening was found by a group of 7th graders. It was completely unrecorded by our official geological...

Scientists Solve 40-Year Old Martian Ice Cap Mystery

If you had “strange but undeniable resulting pattern caused by a million years of whipping from Martian wind” in the What With The Bizarre Shape Of The Mars Ice Cap pool, please collect your winnings. According to a new NASA study, the...

Man Rescues Yeti, Heart Restarted, Too Gross For Mars, Dan Aykroyd’s Alien Advice [WeirdThingsTV]

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No Matter How Gross We Are, We Likely Won’t Contaminate Mars

There has long been a school of thought that bacteria from Earth could contaminate possible life on Mars should be take a man made trip to the Red Planet. However, a new study out of the University of Central Florida says no matter how...

New Evidence for Life on the Martian Meteorite

According to Spaceflight Now, NASA researchers are about to release new evidence that a Martian meteorite shows evidence for life. The research team originally announced the discovery of the meteorite back in 1996. There was a lot of...