Mars

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Sol System: Mars
 * Satellites:
 * Artificial: see Missions: Orbit
 * Natural: Deimos, Phobos
 * Near to: Earth, Asteroid Belt

News

 * 2008-03-07 Mars crater's ancient lakes may have been habitable: "Clay-encrusted boulders recently discovered on Mars are evidence of ancient and perhaps once-habitable lakes, a new study finds."
 * 2007-09-21 NASA spacecraft finds possible Mars caves: "An orbiting spacecraft has found evidence of what look like seven caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano, the space agency NASA said on Friday."
 * 2007-03-15 Ice on Mars' South Pole Is Deep and Wide: new radar data from the Mars Express spacecraft suggests that the southern polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 36 feet deep.
 * 2005-12-21 ASU geologists suggest Mars features are result of meteorite strikes, not of evaporated lakes

Topics

 * Colonization
 * Mars Simulation Project "an effort to simulate management of human settlements on Mars, from tiny outposts to sprawling communities."
 * 2005-11-12 article
 * Maps
 * Google
 * Missions
 * Orbit
 * Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
 * Surface
 * 2008-04-06 The Next Giant Leap For Mankind: "NASA is serious, very serious, about launching the most difficult mission ever attempted by the human race - putting an astronaut on Mars. The voyage will cover hundreds of millions of miles and take two-and-a-half years roundtrip."
 * Mars Exploration Rovers
 * Periodicals
 * Mars Journal