# mars - Saturday 25 January, 2014
# Interstellar Trekker
# Interstellar Trekker
The rover was only supposed to run for 90 days, but 10 years a 40 Martian kilometers later, it shows no signs of stopping.
# mars - Friday 17 January, 2014
# Stargazer
# Stargazer
Most of us grew up learning that there were nine planets in the Solar System. But why did Pluto get demoted? Conor Farrell explains how our understanding of the icy body changed.
# mars - Saturday 11 January, 2014
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: Where did Michael Noonan rank out of Europe’s Finance Ministers in a Financial Times list?
# mars - Thursday 9 January, 2014
# Mars One Mission
From The Daily Edge
# Mars One Mission
Dr Joseph Roche, from Kildare, is one of 1,000 people shortlisted for the Mars One colony mission.
# mars - Wednesday 8 January, 2014
# Polar Vortex
# Polar Vortex
The extreme cold weather is causing chaos across the United States and Canada as temperatures plunge as low as -37 degrees Celsius.
# Mission To Mars
# Mission To Mars
Florence Porcel is down to the last 1,000 candidates for the six-month, no-return trip.
# mars - Monday 18 November, 2013
# Ten Nine Eight
# Ten Nine Eight
Arrival at Mars is scheduled for September 2014.
# mars - Sunday 17 November, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everybody’s talking about Ireland pledging more towards the Philippines, the botched armed robbery in Drogheda and the plane crash in Russia.
# mars - Monday 4 November, 2013
# Mars
# Mars
The country is aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet.
# mars - Saturday 26 October, 2013
# Misperceptions
# Misperceptions
You’ll be making sure your i’s are dotted and your t’s crossed after this.
# mars - Thursday 19 September, 2013
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
New findings from NASA’s Curiosity rover found only tiny amounts of methane gas in the atmosphere, making it unlikely that there was life on Mars .
# mars - Tuesday 13 August, 2013
# Food On Mars
# Food On Mars
The six people spent four months living in Hawaii in a simulated exercise, eating foods made from shelf-stable ingredients.
# mars - Tuesday 6 August, 2013
# NASA
# NASA
Today will see special NASA livestream events taking place to mark the work of the rover over the past 12 months.
# mars - Friday 12 July, 2013
# NASA
From The Daily Edge
# NASA
Here’s the full correspondence, as revealed by Dexter’s dad.
# mars - Friday 7 June, 2013
# Mars
# Mars
The unmanned solar-powered vehicle has just analysed what may be its oldest rock ever, known as Esperance 6, which contains evidence that potentially life-supporting water once flowed in abundance.
# mars - Sunday 12 May, 2013
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
The Curiosity rover is the size of a small car – but now researchers are looking at how to land something the size of a two-storey house on Mars .
# mars - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
# Mars Todger
From The Daily Edge
# Rude Planet
# Rude Planet
The unfortunate sketch was found on the NASA website.
# mars - Sunday 21 April, 2013
# Sitdown Sunday
# Sitdown Sunday
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# mars - Friday 5 April, 2013
# Mars
# Mars
For much of April, the sun blocks the line of sight between Earth and Mars , making it difficult for engineers to send instructions or hear from spacecraft Curiosity and Opportunity.
# mars - Saturday 23 March, 2013
# mars - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
# Curiosity
# Curiosity
Nasa Curiosity Rover, which is living on the Red Planet, has taken samples of rock for analysis by scientists back home.
# mars - Sunday 3 March, 2013
# Final Frontier
# Final Frontier
“We are a long way from the Terminator, or the Matrix” says Nasa chief historian.
# mars - Thursday 28 February, 2013
# Mars
# Mars
Many of the finer details of the Inspiration Mars project – initially funded by the world’s first space tourist Dennis Tito – have yet to be worked out but it is hoped it will allow for zero-gravity sex.
# mars - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
# Mars
# Mars
NASA has downplayed talk of a ‘major discovery’ by its Curiosity rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the planet.
# mars - Monday 5 November, 2012
# Wish You Were Here
# Wish You Were Here
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
# mars - Monday 3 September, 2012
# Curiosity Rover
# Curiosity Rover
It’s to help scientists keep track of where it moves on Mars , see?
# mars - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
# Oh The Humanity
# Oh The Humanity
(Mars , we’re sorry.) What would you have picked to be the first song from space?
# mars - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
Things we learned, loved and shared today.
# Nextdoor
# Nextdoor
NASA has released the first high-resolution photo from the Curiosity rover. This is how the neighbours live.
# mars - Friday 24 August, 2012
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
This video of Curiosity’s landing is humanity’s first recording of a touchdown on another planet.
# mars - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
# Mars
# Mars
The rover is being put through its paces ahead of its first drive on Mars today.
# mars - Saturday 18 August, 2012
# Road Trip
# Road Trip
Researchers will be carrying out tests in the coming days to prepare the rover for its first journey across the surface of Mars .
# Current Affairs
From The Daily Edge
# Current Affairs
BREAKING via The Mire wire: The GAA dismisses reports of vajazzling – and the Mars Curiosity rover faces a hostile reaction from the natives.
# mars - Thursday 16 August, 2012
# Gimme Mars
From The Daily Edge
# Gimme Mars
Well, they DO have a lot in common.
# mars - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
# Review
From The Daily Edge
# Review
The Irishman does a fine job of playing a factory worker turned super spy but a certain wow factor is missing.
# Space
# Space
See the first colour photograph of the pale blue bot.
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