the spherical 1-ton Mars 2 lander was about the size of a kitchen stove and designed to parachute to the Martian surface and use rockets for final braking. Despite surviving the long trip the Mars ...
Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...
However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes living on Mars with too much water. While impossible to know for sure, this ...
The European-led Mars lander is approaching the Red Planet as part of the ExoMars mission between the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos. The lander will be searching for signs of alien ...
Using in part Viking Mars lander temperature and pressure datasets gleaned in the 1970s, Olszewski and research team members have simulated a variety of processes on Mars, both at present and in ...