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io9 - May 10, 2008
What happened to Polar Lander, the last Mars rover that NASA tried to land in the Martian polar region, where it hopes that the Phoenix rover will touch down on May 25? The mysterious fate of the lander that simply …
Also tagged: space, phoenix, space travel, nasa, mars rover, space colonization
io9 - May 9, 2008
In the year 3535, Mars is in pretty bad shape. Its proud past as a vacation spot for the rich and famous long forgotten, stripped of its natural resources, the red planet has become a home for - as Cher would say - …
Also tagged: comics, graphic novel
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
Being a member of the US military in Afghanistan takes it's toll after a few years. So last week, Sergeant First Class William Ruth of the Army's 101st Airborne Division proposed an alternative mission for his …
Also tagged: army, space exploration, moon, us army, space colonization, colonial marines
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
He was the man who launched a thousand imaginary rocketships to Mars — in the nineteenth century, before anybody knew the word "Martian" and War of the Worlds hadn't been written yet. Percival Lowell, a wealthy …
io9 - Apr 23, 2008
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Ever since the Columbia disaster, NASA's been hurting for some good press in the crewed spaceflight program. Agency scientists think they have the …
Also tagged: rant, nasa, moon, orion, neo, near earth object
io9 - Apr 20, 2008
Astrobiologists seem to have trouble putting their money where their mouths are. Generally among the most ardent supporters of planetary exploration, around 2/3 of them got cold feet yesterday at the Astrobiology …
Also tagged: astrobiology
io9 - Apr 17, 2008
Using telescopes, astronomers have been mapping the surface of Mars in surprising detail for over 100 years. This map of the entire Martian globe, showing everything from Mare Australe to Mare Boreum, was made in 1890 …
io9 - Apr 10, 2008
In yet another cool image from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter near Mars, we see these dunes on the planet's surface. This image comes from the Hellespontus region of Mars, where sand from local …
Also tagged: astronomy, nasa, plants, orbiter, space porn
io9 - Apr 9, 2008
NASA scientists have been arguing for years that Martian moons Phobos and Deimos may be the best place to in the solar system for humans to colonize. Some would argue even better than our own Moon. The Mars …
Also tagged: space, astronomy, phobos, space colonization
io9 - Apr 2, 2008
If only today's announcement from Google and Virgin were true. Supposedly Google and Virgin Inc. are teaming up to create Virgle, a scheme to settle Mars by about 2015, possibly because Mars is the last place Google …
Also tagged: google, colonization, virgin, exploration, terraforming, april fools jokes