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First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Dark Sand Dunes

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows dark sand dunes in the north polar region of Mars. The dominant winds responsible for these dunes blew from the lower left (southwest). They are located near 76.6°N, 257.2°W. The picture ... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Chasma Boreale

Topics: Environment, Space technology, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Coprates quadrangle, Michael C. Malin, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Chasma, , Malin Space Science Systems, Mars Global Surveyor, Planetary geology, Mars Orbiter Camera ... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Spacecraft, Space Travel

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Tikhonravov Layers

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows layered sedimentary rocks exposed by erosion, then mantled by dust, in Tikhonravov Crater in central Arabia Terra. Dark slope streaks occur where some of the dust has slid down the ... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Malin Space Science Systems

Daedalia Flow

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a portion of a lava flow in the Daedalia Planum region of Mars, south of the volcano, Arsia Mons. Daedalia Planum is known for its abundance of ancient, long, lava flows. MGS MOC Release ... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

When Curiosity killed the rat!

Even as scientists are searching for tell tale signs that are indicative of conditions that would have favoured life on Mars a few billions years ago, it appears that the red planet may well have a rat! Forget rat, a picture taken in 2012 by the High-Resolution ... [Published The Hindu - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Viking 1, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Security Blanket

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows material on the floor of a crater in Noachis Terra, west of Hellas Planitia. Windblown features, both the large, dark-toned sand dunes and smaller, light-toned ripples, obscure and ... [Published Red Orbit - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

First reported Mar 11 2013 - Updated Mar 11 2013 - 1 reports

A Day in the Life of a Living Mars

Back in January we posted some intriguing images showing concepts of what a terraformed “living Mars” might look like from orbit. With a bit of creative license, software engineer Kevin Gill turned the Red Planet into its own version of the Blue Marble. ... [Published Universe Today - Mar 11 2013]

Entities: Marble, Nancy Atkinson, Solar System, Astronomy, Mars Global Surveyor

First reported Jan 13 2013 - Updated Jan 14 2013 - 1 reports

Bacteria In Rio Tinto Could Be Like Those On Mars

With the help of microscopic techniques and molecular ecology, the team has discovered a film of bacteria and algae living in salt 'microniches' invisible to the naked eye. Up to five different morphologies have been found of microorganisms belonging ... [Published Space Daily - Jan 13 2013]

Entities: Rio Tinto Group, Bacteria, Dunaliella, Microorganism, Molecular Ecology

Quotes

...and lead author of a report published online by the journal Icarus. "Now I dream of snowboarding down a Martian sand dune on a block of dry ice."

Martian Dry Ice Gliders [Published Environmental News Network - Jun 14 2013]

"There's been a variety of other hypotheses discussed for these linear gullies, and I didnt know which was right" said University of Arizona planetary scientist Alfred McEwen, a study co-author and lead scientist for a camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Observatory...

Mysterious Martian tracks carved by dry ice slabs, scientists say [Published Los Angeles Times - Jun 12 2013]

"The salt deposits are good 'hosts' for biological remains and even life itself in extreme circumstances" as outlined to SINC by Felipe Gomez, coauthor of the study published in the journal Planetary and Space Science

Bacteria In Rio Tinto Could Be Like Those On Mars [Published Space Daily - Jan 13 2013]

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Dark Sand Dunes [Published Red Orbit - Jun 17 2013]
Martian Dry Ice Gliders [Published Environmental News Network - Jun 14 2013]
Chasma Boreale [Published Red Orbit - Jun 13 2013]
Mysterious Martian tracks carved by dry ice sla... [Published Los Angeles Times - Jun 12 2013]
Giant claw marks on Mars dunes? Blocks of dry i... [Published Christian Science Monitor - Jun 12 2013]
Tikhonravov Layers [Published Red Orbit - Jun 11 2013]
Gold is much more than a medium for jewelry and... [Published Canadian Mining Journal - Jun 10 2013]
Daedalia Flow [Published Red Orbit - Jun 10 2013]
Security Blanket [Published Red Orbit - Jun 05 2013]
When Curiosity killed the rat! [Published The Hindu - Jun 05 2013]
First Ever Topographic Map of Titan Produced [Published Discovery Health - May 23 2013]
A Day in the Life of a Living Mars [Published Universe Today - Mar 11 2013]
Radar reveals traces of monstrous Martian flood... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 07 2013]
Bacteria In Rio Tinto Could Be Like Those On Mars [Published Space Daily - Jan 13 2013]
Space History Photo: Armed and Ready An astrona... [Published Space.com - Dec 12 2012]

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Radar reveals traces of monstrous Martian flood... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 07 2013] NASA / MOLA / Smithsonian Mars' 600-mile Marte Vallis channel system is filled with young lavas that obscure the source of the channels. This map shows Marte Vallis against the background of an elevation map of the planet, based on readings from the ...