The Mars Scene: Reddish Planet

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NASA has released a long-range report detailing its ambitions for sending astronauts to live on Mars, along with the obstacles the space agency will have to tackle to make reaching the Red Planet in the 2030s a reality. "There are challenges to pioneering NASA once said that no private company's reaching the red planet without its help. If that's true, then private space corps should be thankful that the agency has a solid plan to get us there. America's space agency has published a document that details You might not have noticed, but NASA is pretty excited about Mars. Things have been ramping up lately, what with the convenient pop culture tie-in of the film, “The Martian,” and NASA has been flooding the Interwebs with optimistic #JourneytoMars Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver chats with Alan Boyle on stage during the 2015 GeekWire Summit. If we want to send astronauts to Mars, we better find a way to do it within 10 years. And if we want to discover a blue planet around an alien "The Martian," starring Matt Damon, has earned more than $100 million globally in its first week of release. Helped by NASA's announcement the same week, about water found on Mars, the film has led to renewed interest in the red planet. The same can't Ancient Mars harbored long-lasting lakes, boosting the odds that life could have existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago, a new study suggests. A series of freshwater lakes within Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater likely persisted for .

So, in our solar system, where’s the water? With the recent announcement that liquid water (salty, seeping water) exists on Mars, the Internet erupted with ideas about life on the Red Planet and future missions to dig around in that damp sand. Jupiter is the first to get its new close-up, and the new ultra-HD 4K images have revealed some interesting new features, including a rare wave just above the planet's equator, and a stringy feature in its Great Red Spot. “Every time we look at Jupiter 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 Filmmakers created a believable otherworldy existence in a new film, continuing a long tradition of movies set on the Red Planet. Mars has been at the forefront of the world’s mind lately, what with NASA’s recent announcement that evidence of flowing .