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Viking Found 'Organics' on Mars

Irene Klotz Discovery.com 01/07/2011
Viking Found 'Organics' on Mars

More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt.

Trip to Mars could leave crew 'dangerously weak'

If a human ever sets foot on Mars, will it be a giant step or an exhausted shuffle?

Russia launching 520-day Mars mission simulation

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Yahoo! News 06/02/2010

Nasa photographs 'trees' on Mars

Ben Leach Telegraph 01/14/2010
Russia launching 520-day Mars mission simulation

A manned mission to Mars may be decades away, but an international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themselves up in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half — the time needed for a roundtrip to the red planet.

Nasa photographs 'trees' on Mars

A Nasa probe has sent back photographs of what appears to be trees on the planet's surface.

Evidence found of lightning on Mars

U.S. scientists say they have detected the first direct evidence of lightning occurring on Mars.

First liquid water may have been spotted on Mars

NASA's Phoenix lander may have captured the first images of liquid water on Mars - droplets that apparently splashed onto the spacecraft's leg during landing, according to some members of the Phoenix team.