2003: Mars space probe disappears
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Scientists have failed to make contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2, which should have landed on the planet early today.
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The UK-led Beagle 2 team which tried to put a lander on the surface of Mars last year has published the findings of its own inquiry into what went wrong.
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After circling the red planet for more than eight months, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken images of three spacecraft that the agency had previously sent to the Martian surface.
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The Mars Odyssey orbiter was in safe mode Monday after a computer glitch prevented the 6-year-old spacecraft from relaying data from the twin rovers rolling across the Martian surface.
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New images of US landing craft on Mars are taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) probe.
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Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain&#39;s Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather.
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London - The British team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 probe to Mars, which vanished without trace in December 2003 while attempting to land on the Red Planet, unveiled plans on Wednesday for a possible successor mission.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has returned this view of its discard heat shield, which crashed to the planet&#39;s surface during the craft&#39;s descent and landing last January.
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Something strange is happening on Mars. It seems something or someone is cleaning the windows on one of two rovers probing the surface of the red planet.
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The hunt for evidence of life on Mars will go underground next year when a NASA probe digs beneath the surface of the red planet&#39;s arctic northern plains, US scientists revealed Monday.
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The European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe appears shining as it coasts away from Cassini in this image taken on Dec. 26, 2004, just two days after the probe successfully detached from the Cassini spacecraft.
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Washington - The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harboured life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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Even though they were expected to explore the Mars surface for only 90 days, the two Mars rovers are still gathering information about the Red Planet. This week, NASA extended their missions again.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--An unexplained object that apparently separated from shuttle Atlantis forced NASA to delay the crew's return to Earth by at least a day, mission managers said today.   The object could be as benign as a piece of ice or a small tool.
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NASA will miss a  precious opportunity to fly a probe to Mars due to a conflict  of interest in picking a contractor, delaying the mission by  more than two years, officials said on Friday.
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Five years ago, after two NASA missions to Mars were doomed by elementary mistakes - a software glitch and a mix-up between English and metric units - the space agency devised more elaborate