Thursday, 25 September 2014 With the now increased traffic in the Red Planet’s region – since India’s satellite reached Mars’s orbit Wednesday – a traffic light might just be what’s been missing. And it didn’t take long for one… Read More ›
Red Planet
Promoting or being involved in a one-way trip to the Red Planet is prohibited in Islam
One-way trip to Mars prohibited in Islam Ahmed Shaaban / 19 February 2014 Fatwa committee under the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE says such a journey poses a real risk to life. Promoting or being… Read More ›
First scoop of Mars soil contains 2 percent water: study
27 Sep 2013 Washington (AFP) The first scoop of Martian soil analyzed by NASA’s Curiosity rover held about two percent water, offering hope for hydrating humans who someday explore the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. “We saw Mars as a very… Read More ›
Life DID begin on Mars – then we all travelled to Earth on a meteorite: Element crucial to the origin of life ‘would only have been available on the red planet’
Thursday, Aug 29 2013 Molybdenum mineral is thought to have been crucial to the origin of life Material may have been available on the surface of Mars and not on Earth This could suggest that life came to Earth on… Read More ›
Mars has Front-Row Seat for 2014 Comet
Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), discovered in January and now inbound from the Oort Cloud, promises to put on a spectacular show in October 2014 — for the spacecraft on and around Mars. . We’re just a couple weeks away… Read More ›
Private Manned Mars Mission Gets First Sponsors
A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to fund most of its… Read More ›