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4 Billion Pixel Panorama from the Curiosity Rover

March 30, 2013

4 Billion Pixel Panorama from the Curiosity Rover

4-billion-pixel, 360 panorama from Curiosity Rover brings Mars to your screen. Gaze around Gale Crater, where NASA’s rover is currently exploring.    Have a look at the exceptional panorama after the jump…

Nomad Project- Mobile Skyscrapers to Terraform Mars

March 19, 2013

Nomad Project- Mobile Skyscrapers to Terraform Mars

Nomad Project consisting of mobile skyscrapers to terraform Mars, by changing the atmospheric and soil chemistry of the Red Planet, to make it hospitable for human colonization.

Walk around Earth and Mars with Virtual Reality 3-D images

March 18, 2013

Walk around Earth and Mars with Virtual Reality 3-D images

Professor Dawn Sumner from UC Davis geology, applies a new technology enabling the study of rocks, using virtual reality 3-D images to walk around the surface of Earth and Mars.    Have a look at the video…

Evidence for a Habitable Ancient Mars by Curiosity

March 13, 2013

Evidence for a Habitable Ancient Mars by Curiosity

Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients for life – in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on Mars last month.    Image © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Life On Mars

March 8, 2013

Life On Mars

Life On Mars written, directed and animated by Lukas Vojir, with an innovative 3D modeling technique and atmospheric colors.  Watch the 30 sec video…

Private Plan to Send Humans to Mars in 2018

March 1, 2013

Private Plan to Send Humans to Mars

An ambitious private manned mission to Mars has just been officially announced, by the Inspiration Mars Foundation, a non-profit company founded by millionaire and space tourist Dennis Tito.   Image © Inspiration Mars Foundation

Tito is planning Private Human Mars Mission

February 25, 2013

Human Mars Mission

The world’s first space tourist, Dennis Tito, who in 2001, became the world’s first space tourist, is planning to launch a manned mission to Mars by 2018.   Image © NASA

Scientist Explains the Weird Thing on Mars

February 13, 2013

Scientist Explains the Weird Thing on Mars

A scientist explains the weird thing on Mars on the images from the Curiosity rover showed what looked like a piece of shiny metal, that we posted the last week.   A zoomed-in view of the shiny protuberance.    Image © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems.

Who took this photo of Curiosity Rover on Mars?

February 10, 2013

Who took this photo of Curiosity Rover on Mars

This stunning self-portrait of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). The rover’s robotic arm is not visible in the mosaic. Image © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Another Weird Thing on Mars

February 6, 2013

Another Weird Thing on Mars

Another weird thing found by Curiosity Mars rover, a strange-looking little metallic-looking protuberance on the Martian soil.   Image © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems. Image via 2di7 & titanio44 on Flickr.

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