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Is There Life on Mars?
Looking to change your life? A visit to the "Pyramids of Mars" exhibition might help. The posters, tapestries, benches, films and...
Great Lakes On Mars
We have long had reason to believe that the Mars we see today is not the Mars that once was. That bleak, freeze-dried world, most planetary scientists agree, was...
Science: A Postcard from Mars
Like tourists everywhere, the two Viking landers and their orbiters have spent much of the 15 months since their arrival on Mars snapping pictures of the Red...
Science: The Mars Quads
Every 25 months the planet Mars moves into a position that favors launches of spacecraft from earth. Three weeks ago, the Russians took advantage of that...
Science: The Samovar That Landed on Mars
NEARLY a month after the event, the Soviet Union released photographs of its Mars 3 capsule, the first earthly vehicle to make a "soft landing" on the planet...
Space Exploration: The Full Picture from Mars
Mariner IV, the agile U.S. spacecraft designed to take the measure of Mars, has lived up to every expectation. At Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week,...
Science: Fruitful Mars
The news from Marsbrief as it was−was good. Astronomer E. C. Slipher, of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., recently returned from South Africa confident...
Science: Echo from Mars
The great radio telescope now under construction at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, England will have a "steerable" saucer of copper mesh 250 ft. in diameter...
Religion: On Mars' Hill
When the Apostle Paul made his famous speech on Athens' Mars' Hill, declaring to the pagan Athenians the reality of that unknown God whom they ignorantly...
Religion: Mars in White Raiment
Many people at home & abroad were horror-struck when a so-called Christian nation used the atomic bomb against its enemies. But one Methodist clergyman was not...
Education: Bachelors of Mars
How much of what a citizen soldier learns is useful in later life? That depends a good deal on the soldier, but educators will not admit that it all depends on...
Art: MARS
Since January 3, 15,000 Londoners a week have filed reverently into Burlington House to see the annual winter show of the Royal Academythis year a whopping...
Science: Mars
Nearer to men than it had come for two years, but seven million miles less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to...
Phoenix Moves Away from Pop on Latest Album, Bankrupt!
The band doubles down on fake-outs throughout their fifth studio album
Asteroid in a Bag: NASA’s Long, Strange Trip
The space agency's latest plan for a manned mission—including capturing an asteroid and towing it to the moon—begs crddulity
Space Tech at South By Southwest (SXSW) — After the Shuttle, Boom Times for Space Innovation?
Somewhere between the harebrained idea and the humble one is where real space vision lives
Wisconsin Scientists Help Search for Alien Life
(MADISON, Wis.) -- Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by...
Martian Life? Not. Learning From a False Alarm
A few ill-chosen words led to an explosion of speculation — and that matters
Shiny Fleck on Martian Surface! Why it Matters
OK, let’s all settle down. Nothing to see here, move on. That, alas, is the word from NASA after the newest pictures taken from the Curiosity rover on Mars...
Could Martian Bacteria Have Seeded Earth?
If you were a passenger aboard the meteorite from Mars bearing down on the town of Tata, Morocco in July 2011, you would be in a decidedly unenviable position...
