Mexican volcano is test bed for trees on Mars
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Scientists are using the pine-forested slopes of a Mexican volcano as a test bed to see if trees could grow on a heated-up Mars, part of a vision of making the chilly and barren red planet habitable for humans one day.
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Mars, the red planet, may not after all be the dead planet. New research yesterday by European scientists suggests that volcanoes on Mars last erupted only 2 million years ago and could erupt again.
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin
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Photographs sent by a NASA orbiter suggests that water may indeed be flowing on Mars. And where there's water, there's at least a chance of life. By the Associated Press.
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Engineers test an airbag system that could be used to cushion a European rover's landing on Mars.
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By Alicia Chang, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--LOS ANGELES -- Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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NASA is bringing high-tech satellite images and visualization tools to bear on the unique environmental problems of Central America.
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Methane and water vapour are concentrated in the same regions of the Martian atmosphere, say scientists studying data from Europe&#39;s Mars Express orbiter.
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For decades, photos of what appeared to be a huge, face-shaped rock formation on Mars &#151; or even a statue of Elvis &#151; fueled theories of intelligent life on the Red Planet.
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Stunning color images offer new evidence that plentiful water once percolated through Martian bedrock&#8212;and new hints as to where life might be hiding.
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CUATRO CI&#xC9;NEGAS, Mexico -- Dairy farming is endangering an ancient oasis in the Great Chihuahuan Desert that scientists say can help them understand earth's beginnings, global warming, and the chances of life on Mars.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Hunting for traces of life on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer.
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Concentrations of water vapor and methane gas in certain regions of the red planet strengthen speculation that Mars could be a haven for microbial life.
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Recent analyses of ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet.
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Mexico's so-called "Fire Volcano" spewed lava, glowing rocks and flames on Friday in an eruption that authorities said was not yet serious enough to evacuate nearby villages.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.
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A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor an environment favorable to life.