The Mars Scene: The Planet Mars

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A novel study has examined the erosion patterns of rocks on Mars and determined they were carried by water for some 30 miles on the Red Planet. Photos: When Liquid Water Gushes on Mars While recent evidence from Mars has suggested the planet hosts a small Mars isn’t nearly as simple as scientists once believed. Only weeks ago, they discovered that briny water once existed on the red planet. And now, NASA has announced that rivers and lakes once did, too. Scientists once thought Earth was pretty simple Martians are not the villains. Mars is. At least, that's the message in the new big-screen space thriller "The Martian."After an astronaut is stranded alone at a Martian research base, the planet does its best to starve, suffocate, and freeze the puny human. Video Description: (courtesy - ACCDN) Dabo Swinney tells a funny memory about Steve Spurrier that played out in the media involving a comparison of the planets Mars and Pluto. As most Spurrier stories go, Spurrier delivered a trademark jab at Dabo's expense. That NASA has aspirations for a manned mission to the Red Planet is already well known, but the space agency has now revealed in greater detail how it plans to make such a mission reality. In a document titled "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps In this column, staff writer J.E. Reich rounds up the most important and fascinating space news of the past week in bite-sized summaries to keep you up-to-date on what's happening way up above us. After last week's supermoon and the discovery of (very .

KARACHI: The model of a spaceship supposed to explore planet Mars was the centre of attention on the second day of the two-day Space Fair at PAF Museum, Karachi, on Sunday. The fair was part of the World Space Week being observed internationally to The film paints a believable picture of the first human missions to Mars. The technology that fictional astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) uses to try to survive on the planet is inspired by existing technology, as NASA itself has revealed. The bad tech However, it's not the rover's safety NASA is worried about — it's the planet mars. And right now NASA's planetary protection officer, Cassie Conley, is trying to figure out if Mars and its flowing water is safe from contamination. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin While new evidence suggests that Mars may harbor a tiny amount of liquid water, it exists today as a largely cold and arid planet. Three billion years ago, however, the situation may have been much different. In 2012 the Mars Curiosity rover beamed images .