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Cosmonewts Come Home After Russians Send Animals To Space

45 mice, 15 newts, eight gerbils and a handful of snails returned to Earth today after a month in space in a Russian capsule. The Bion-M completed a parachute-assisted landing about 750 miles southeast of Moscow, and researchers immediately set up a mobile lab near the capsule to begin tests on the animals.

17 May 2013

Science

Oldest Water Cache Ever Discovered May Hold 1.5 Billion-Year-Old Life

After kindly asking a group of Canadian miners for a sample of some water they’d struck, a team of scientists who had been investigating similar finds discovered that the fluid they were looking at may have been sealed up for 1.5 billion years.

13 May 2013

Science

The Dust On Mars Would Be Dangerous To Human Visitors

It’s going to take more than a Swiffer to deal with this situation. Researchers and public health experts at the Humans 2 Mars Summit (H2M) grappled with the question of how to deal with Martian dust if a manned mission to Mars could actually get off the ground by 2030.

10 May 2013

Science

How NASA Imagined Humans On Mars, Back In 1990

NASA’s had Mars on the brain for many, many years, way before it was drawing massive male members in the martian sand. Ever since it sent astronauts to the moon, NASA’s had its sights aimed at the Red Planet. These amazing retro images dug up from the archives show just how NASA thought Mars would be.

5 May 2013

Geek Out

NASA Is Giving You The Opportunity To Send A Message To Mars… As A Haiku

We’ve sent more than a few rovers to Mars over the decades and we’ve yet to encounter intelligent life. But on the off chance something is there, what better way to communicate our peaceful intentions than with a haiku? Well, NASA not only wants you to submit one for consideration, but get the public to vote for the top three.

25 April 2013

Science

NASA Apparently Drew This Giant Penis On The Surface Of Mars

Apparently, this drawing of the male genitals etched into the surface of Mars — which has popped up on NASA’s website — was just an amusing accident. Either that, or a very dirty-minded individual got hold of the controls of NASA’s ageing Opportunity Mars rover.

5 April 2013

Online

This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is From Earth

This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars?

3 April 2013

Science

Would You Accept A One-Way Trip To A Colony On Mars?

Now that nuclear-thermal rockets are becoming a reality, we may very well be shipping off the first human pioneers to Mars (both safely and efficiently) in the not-too-distant future. This, of course, leaves the question of exactly who will become the first generation of Martian-Earthlings.

29 March 2013

Science

Street View Hits Mars With This 4-Gigapixel Panoramic

There’s been no shortage of Mars pictures since Curiosity landed. We’ve got Martian mountains, rover selfies, the works. But thanks to a little image stitching by a clever dude back here on Earth, now we have Mars Street View, kind of.

18 March 2013

Science

What A Giant Martian Mountain Would Look Like On Earth

The red planet is an alien world, and though it may have once held life, it’s certainly no Earth. But that’s to a recent mammoth panorama shot by Curiosity we can get a glimpse of what it would be life if one of Mars’ mountains was transplanted here to ol’ Terra.

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