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Phoenix Mars Lander officially dead / The Register

NASA has confirmed that its Phoenix Mars Lander has not survived the harsh Red Planet arctic winter, and appears to have suffered serious ice damage to its solar panels.

Alfred Hitchcock Does Sci-Fi - With Steve McQueen and Arthur Hill

In this completely whacked-out episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Steve McQueen plays a reporter sent to a bar to interview a man who claims he's really a Martian thrust into the body of a human.

My Year at Newsvine in Review - 2009

About every Thanksgiving, I do a review of my activity at the Vine for the previous year. I went into January at full speed, doing a whopping twenty-one articles, starting with a plea for our new President to end the war in Iraq now, instead of waiting for 2011.

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The Top Ten Events That Shaped the Exploration of Space - and Why They Did

Within a single generation, mankind has gone from the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik 1 to an International Space Station.

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NASA Says - 'Send Your Name to Mars'

NASA currently has a webpage where you can fill in your name and zip code, and this information will be written on a microchip going to Mars with the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory.

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NASA Sets the Date We Finally Land on Mars: April 15, 2025 - and Here's How They Plan To Do It

You just knew they had something in mind for the International Space Station besides studying the weather and sending really nice pictures back to Earth. In fact, the ISS is critical in NASA's plan to land astronauts on Mars in less than sixteen years.

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Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution

Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.

Launched in '97, Saturn Probe is 'Volvo of the Solar System' - Still Sending Back Pictures and Data

The Cassini-Huygens Planetary Probe, a twenty-two foot tall monster-of-a-spacecraft, recently switched to its backup thrusters. After years of zipping around the rings and moons of Saturn, the original thrusters were beginning to wear down.

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NASA - Discovery of Methane Reveals Mars Is Not a Dead Planet

A team of NASA and university scientists has achieved the first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This discovery indicates the planet is either biologically or geologically active.

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