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Exploring Mars with Java: At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data...; Tags: Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mars, NASA, JMARS; Videos 2008-05-09
Heating Mars with mirrors: This University of Arizona UA project doesnt want to terraform the whole Red Planet. In fact, this project is funded with a very modest $9,000 grant from NASA and just wants to heat a one-square kilometer area of Mars surface by using space mirrors as reports New Scientist. The plan...; Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Mars, Rigel Woida; Blog posts 2006-11-16
Images: Marooned after 1,000 days on Mars: Mars rover Spirit has been still for the Martian winter but still celebrates 1,000 days on the Red Planet with a new panorama.; Tags: winter, Mars; Image galleries 2006-10-27
Photos: Hi-res camera spots visitor on Mars: NASA's high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes photos of one of the Martian rovers.; Tags: Mars, camera, NASA, photograph; Image galleries 2006-10-06
Photos: New camera brings Mars closer: The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter sent the first images from its highest resolution camera. Plus, updates from other Mars explorers.; Tags: Mars, camera, image; Image galleries 2006-10-02

Photos: Zooming in on the 'Face on Mars': A 1976 image from NASA's Viking 1 showed a rock formation on Mars that resembled a human face and triggered 30 years of speculation.; Tags: photograph, NASA, image, Mars; Image galleries 2006-09-22
Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars: NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.; Tags: Mars, NASA; Image galleries 2006-06-07
Images: A moon shot on the way to Mars: NASA hands out assignments for the man-on-the-moon Constellation project, to be followed by a mission to Mars.; Tags: Mars, NASA; Image galleries 2006-06-07
An antimatter spaceship for Mars?: If you're a science fiction reader, you know that spaceships are using antimatter to travel through space. Now NASA is working on such a spaceship to go to Mars in 45 days using only 10 milligrams of anti-electrons -- or positrons -- for the round trip mission. These positrons will...; Tags: Mars, spaceship; Blog posts 2006-04-19
Photos: Mars in full color: A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.; Tags: NASA, camera, Mars; Image galleries 2006-04-10
Photos: Mars in full color: A high-res camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back infrared color images of the Red Planet.; Tags: NASA, camera, Mars; Image galleries 2006-04-10
Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image: NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.; Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image; Image galleries 2006-03-24
Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image: NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.; Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image; Image galleries 2006-03-24
Photos: Mars Orbiter snaps first high-res image: NASA scientists are all smiles after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sends back its first image.; Tags: Mars, smile, NASA, scientist, image; Image galleries 2006-03-24
Mooning over Mars: Teaching about space this year? Check out this excellent narrated and computer-animated video of a flythrough through Mars' Mariner Valley, assembled by Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility. It was constructed from more than 500 individual photos taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System THEMIS aboard...; Tags: Mars; Blog posts 2006-03-13
Google lands on Mars: Tonight I noticed that mars.google.com now has a CNAME record that points to www.google.com. This usually means that something is about to happen with that subdomain -- with the exception of calendar.google.com of course. So I started digging and you will never guess what I found -- a...; Tags: Mars; Blog posts 2006-03-12
Images: Mars or bust: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will study the Red Planet for evidence of water.; Tags: Mars; Image galleries 2006-03-09
Images: Mars or bust: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will study the Red Planet for evidence of water.; Tags: Mars; Image galleries 2006-03-09
Inside Mars rocks in 3-D: Researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA have found a way to produce 3-D images of microfossils embedded in rocks. This new technique is not destructive and they were able to spot fossils up to 850 million years old. The scientists are now waiting for samples of...; Tags: technique, fossil, Mars, University of California at Los Angeles; Blog posts 2006-02-02
Exploring Mars will be a risky business: Are humans ready to stay on Mars for several months? Can we deal with all the risks that its environment may cause to astronauts and space missions? Red Nova says that some answers are contained in a report from NASA. According to this report, the #1 risk is Martian dust...; Tags: Mars; Blog posts 2005-10-31