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78,000 People Apply for One-Way Trip to Mars Through Mars One
Nearly 80,000 people have already applied for a one-way trip to Mars through Mars One, a Dutch non-profit that plans to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023. (May 10, 2013)

NASA's MAVEN Magnetometer to Measure Martian Magnetic Field
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) magnetometer will measure the magnetic field on Mars. (March 27, 2013)

Martian Crater May Have Contained Lake Fed by Underground Water
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) looked down on the floor of McLaughlin Crater, a 57 mile diameter and 1. (January 24, 2013)

ESA Shares Images of Reull Vallis, a River-like Structure on Mars
The European Space Agency has shared new images of the Reull Vallis, a river-like structure on Mars. (January 18, 2013)

Researchers Revisit Famous Stanford Marshmallow Test With Added Factor of Reliability
Scientists from the University of Rochester have revisited the famous Stanford marshmallow experiment from the 1960s that tested how long a child would hold out before consuming a yummy fluffy white marshmallow. (October 14, 2012)

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found remnants of an ancient streambed on Mars. (September 27, 2012)

Curiosity Rover to Examine Football-Sized Rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has selected a football-sized rock to examine with its arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer and its mast-mounted, laser-zapping Chemistry and Camera Instrument. (September 19, 2012)

Opportunity Rover Finds More Little Martian Spheres
Mars Opportunity rover took a photograph of little Martian spheres. (September 17, 2012)

Curiosity Rover Takes Self Portrait
NASA's Curiosity rover snapped this photograph of itself on Mars. (September 10, 2012)

Curiosity Rover Shares New Images of Mount Sharp
NASA's Curiosity rover has returned impressive new images of Mount Sharp, its future science destination, taken by its Mast Camera. (August 28, 2012)

Image of First Laser-Zapped Rock by Curiosity Released
Curiosity has already zapped its first rock on Mars with its laser. (August 19, 2012)

Curiosity Rover Getting Brain Transplant as Driving Smarts are Installed
NASA reports that Curiosity will be getting a "brain transplant" over the weekend. (August 10, 2012)

First Images Taken by Curiosity's Navigation Cameras Revealed
NASA has released the first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface taken by the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover. (August 8, 2012)

NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped an amazing photo of Curiosity during its descent to the Mars surface. (August 6, 2012)

Curiosity Rover Makes Successful Landing on Mars, First Photos Released
NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully landed on Mars in the Gale Crater. (August 6, 2012)

NASA's Curiosity Rover to Land on Mars in About 2 Hours
NASA's Curiosity rover will land on Mars at 10:31 p. (August 5, 2012)

NASA Creating Menu for Mars Mission in 2030s
NASA scientists are building menus for a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s. (July 18, 2012)

NASA Releases Mars Panorama
NASA has released a Mars Panorama, which it calls the "next best thing to being there. (July 6, 2012)

NASA Video: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror
Before Curiosity can begin investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life it first has to survive the descent to Mars. (June 25, 2012)

Researchers Catalog More Than 635,000 Martian Craters
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have found that Mars is truly a beaten and battered planet. (June 11, 2012)

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on Mars occurs on a scale similar to dune fields on Earth. (May 13, 2012)

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Takes First Drive of 2012
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again. (May 10, 2012)

NASA's Curiosity Rover to Touchdown on Mars on August 5th
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will touchdown on Mars late on the evening of August 5, 2012 PDT. (May 6, 2012)

Bomb Sag Study Provides More Evidence of Early Water on Mars
The atmosphere on Mars is less than 1% the density of Earth's. (May 5, 2012)

Lava Coils Found on Mars
High-resolution photos (see here and here) of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. (April 26, 2012)