On Mars, no life yet, but plenty blue screens of death
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Evidence from busy rovers suggests one-time presence of water, but system reboots almost dried up the sea of data.
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The longest-lasting orbiter of another world falls silent. Scientists lose hope of reviving NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, blaming a faulty solar panel for the loss. In Gear Factor.
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Three years after the two Mars rovers were expected to stop working, they're still exploring the red planet, having shut down for the better part of two months because of dust storms.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars began a risky drive Tuesday into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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In an advance that could lead to lighter spacecraft and smarter cars, researchers have developed a new technique for producing a high-quality computer chip that is much more resistant to extreme conditions than the silicon found in most of today&#39;s
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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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New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported Wednesday.
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.
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Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the red planet, further eroding its image as a dead world and offering prime sites to prospect for signs of Martian life.
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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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With each passing day, those peppy robots on Mars - Spirit and Opportunity - churn out extraordinary new views of the red planet. Each android is over a year in operation, relaying a steady stream of eye-catching photos.
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J. Richard Gott III has issued a wake-up call: To ensure our long-term survival, we need to get a colony up and running on Mars within 46 years.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is suffering science-reducing glitches, although the spacecraft is nearing a milestone in churning out record-setting levels of data.
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Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars  lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the red planet&#39;s arctic northern  region.
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NASA's best effort to find a missing Mars space probe have failed, scientists said Tuesday as they began to lose hope for the 10-year-old planet-mapping workhorse.
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A major dust storm on Mars has worsened and is causing the Mars Exploration Rovers to lose power.