The Mars Scene: Mars Named After

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Named Mars Cube One or MarCo, the tiny satellites will transmit real time data to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). They will not orbit Mars but instead will travel into deep space after InSight’s landing. NASA’s announcement on Monday that there are traces of water on Mars excited the scientific community, as well as space observers, making the prospects of life on the planet even more plausible. It turns out that one of the craters, in which water was A small patch of Mars is now named after Winnipeg, likely in a nod to the Canadian city's claim to fame as being (sometimes) as cold as the Red Planet. NASA, which has its Curiosity rover on Mars to determine whether the planet ever had the conditions to You can now name a Mars crater after yourself or a loved one for just $5. Just don’t expect NASA to officially recognize it. Uwingu.com will name a crater after you or someone you think should have a hole on Mars. While it won’t be official (not ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - One day in the distant future people may be able to land at Lambert Field on Mars. NASA's Martian rover has been exploring a Martian crater named the Spirit of St. Louis after Charles Lindbergh's famous plane. Because two of the NASA began a new chapter of its Martian chronicle today (Aug. 22) when the agency named its Mars rover Curiosity's landing site after the late science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Curiosity's landing site inside Mars' vast Gale Crater was rechristened .

WINNIPEG - From now on when someone says it's as cold as Winnipeg, you may have to ask them to be more specific. Winnipeg, Manitoba? Or Winnipeg, Mars? A team of NASA scientists who are working with the Curiosity rover as it scans the red planet have named Winnipeg – This week NASA gave the name of Winnipeg, one of the major cities in Western Canada in the province of Manitoba, to a small rocky area in on Mars due to a certain climate similarity. This nod to the Canadian city due to the reputation of this NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASU / Reuters Want a crater on mars named after you? A group of planetary scientists and former space program executives have launched a crowdsourcing project to name about 500,000 catalogued landmarks on the Red Planet. .