Mars Showcase
Images from ESA’s Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet.
Images from ESA’s Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet.
After an eight-year long journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is quickly approaching Pluto. As of 21 January 2014, its distance from Pluto is about 4.29 AU (An AU is roughly the distance of the Earth...
Here is part 2 of this amazing documentary. The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars...
A look at the night sky this month with the main event being Jupiter at opposition, and Venus at conjunction. The Quadrantid meteor shower will put on a showing, as well.
Radford Uchihara has applied to be among the first humans to set foot on Mars as part of the Mars One program. Here is talking about why he applied.
More than 100,000 people are eager to make themselves at home on another planet. They’ve applied for a one-way trip to Mars, hoping to be chosen to spend the rest of their lives on...
An update from Curiosity as it journeys to Mount Sharp.
A further look at the Mars Maven mission. The Maven satellite will give us important data taken from the upper atmosphere and should give us data on whether water from Mars did escape into the...
The animation shows how the surface of Mars might have appeared during this ancient clement period, beginning with a flyover of a Martian lake.
India has launched a spacecraft to Mars orbit and hopes to become the fourth space agency to reach the red planet after the US, Russia ans Europe. The unmanned spacecraft will travel for 300 days...
Saturn’s large moon Titan is a surprisingly Earthlike place. But unlike on Earth, Titan’s surface is far too cold for liquid water – instead, Titan’s clouds, rain, and lakes consist of liquid hydrocarbons like...
Curiosity has confirmed the presence of water in the surface soil and we are finding out how similar Mars is to Earth. A look at some of the instruments on Curiosity and the disciveries...
A trip to Mars is fraught with many difficulties. Here we look at the problems that face Mars travellers and the steps being taken to overcome them.
A by product of life, methane, has not been found in large quantities in the Martian atmosphere by Curiosity. This means that the chances of finding living ‘life’ on Mars has greatly diminished.
More than 100,000 people are eager to make themselves at home on another planet. They’ve applied for a one-way trip to Mars, hoping to be chosen to spend the rest of their lives on...
An introduction to the NASA MAVEN mission, which is being launched in November 2013. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), will explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun...
Here is the latest update from the curiosity team. Curiosity is on its way to Mount Sharp and recently took a movie of the Martian Moons.
Following yesterdays post on the Mars Rover ‘Spirit’ we now present the full story of the two predecessors to ‘ Curiosity’. When the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity touched down on Mars in January...
