Mars mission hailed as top 2004 breakthrough
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The discovery that Mars could have supported life billions of years ago has been ranked by the editors of international journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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Nearly three years after landing on Mars, the rover "Opportunity" has reached a region of the planet that may provide the the best clues yet about the history of the red planet.
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New close-up pics of the Red Planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has delivered its first close-up snaps of the Martian surface, courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).â¦
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The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harbored life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These efforts proved successful today when Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory
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Scientists using data from a European probe orbiting Mars have made new topographic maps of the Red Planet.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity found evidence for a lake or sea on Mars, and new research suggests the body of water was deep, large and long-lasting.
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Mars rover Spirit has found its own compelling evidence that liquid water flowed at its landing site on the Red Planet.
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As NASA's Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one of the vehicles has actually gained power recently.
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NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments inside the giant crater a month after reaching the edge of the crevasse.
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NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.
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Thriving on NASAâs Mars Odyssey in January, 2004, NASA is going ahead with its plans for a new rover mission to the red planet. NASAâs massive Mars rover is said to be twice as long and three times as
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Which do you think was the most significant discovery of the year 2004? The discovery of Hobbitâs fossil, a mere two meter tall human who shared planet earth with modern human for thousands of years or is it the landing of NASAâs two rovers on Mars?
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Finally, it was Europe's turn to take a giant leap into an unexplored world. After decades of running third in space headlines behind the U.S. and Soviet-Russian programs, the 15-country ESA last week captured center stage with the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after a seven-year voyage.
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The final results of the Rover research will be reported next year, but a growing body of evidence shows that Mars had a great deal of water several billion years ago, about the same time life was emerging on Earth.
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Talks to resolve the design of Europe's rover mission to Mars are converging on a "best solution for science".