MARS - OIL AND GAS DAILY

Nov 01, 2013 (VOA)

India will launch a spacecraft to Mars on November 5 - an ambitious feat attempted only by a handful of countries. The Red Planet mission marks a major expansio...

Indian space head braced for tricky Mars challenge

Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)

The head of India's space agency warned Thursday of the immense complexity of sending a mission to Mars as the country prepares to send its first interplanetary...

Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches 'Cooperstown'

Oct 31, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage point for pictures useful in s...

NASA to probe why Mars lost its atmosphere

Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)

NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere. The unmanned spaceship ...

Scientists discover how the atmosphere of Mars turned to stone

Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London may have discovered ho...

Mars Crater May Actually Be Ancient Supervolcano

Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from NASA and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., have identified what could be a supervolcano on Mars-the first discovery of its kind....

Mars Rover Opportunity Heads Uphill

Oct 24, 2013 (JPL)

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover has begun climbing "Solander Point," the northern tip of the tallest hill it has encountered in the mission's nearly 10 Earth year...

MAVEN Launch Preps on Schedule

Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)

MAVEN launch preparations remain on schedule and have continued to go well since spacecraft processing resumed earlier this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, MAVEN is...

India sets November 5 for Mars mission launch

Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)

Scientists on Tuesday set November 5 for the delayed launch of India's first mission to Mars, which was postponed due to problems in positioning a seaborne trac...

Heading to a High Slope for Some Sunshine

Oct 18, 2013 (JPL)

Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contacts at the base of Solander...

Phobos-Grunt-2: Russia to probe Martian moon by 2022

Oct 18, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Russia is set to launch a probe to the Martian moon Phobos by 2022, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute has revealed. The renewal of the ambitious ...

Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites

Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)

Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth - a.k.a. Martian meteorites - really are ...

Russian scientists set sights on space

Oct 18, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Russian scientists plan to once again attempt to launch an exploratory mission on the Martian satellite Phobos - the date for the launch of the new probe entitl...

Mission To Mars: A Critical Step In Space Globalization

Oct 17, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

India is getting ready to become the fifth country to send a spaceship to Mars. The USA, Russia, the EU, China and Japan are working on their own programs of st...

Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mission

Oct 17, 2013 (RIA Novosti)

Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing b...

Martian scars Run Deep

Oct 16, 2013 (ESA)

Ripped apart by tectonic forces, Hebes Chasma and its neighbouring network of canyons bear the scars of the Red Planet's early history. ESA's Mars Express has f...

Curiosity rover finds proof of Mars origin of meteorites

Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has found evidence confirming some meteors found on Earth did in fact come from the Red Planet, scientists report. A key new meas...

Russia to make another attempt to bring back Mars moon material

Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)

Russia will mount a second attempt to bring back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after a failed 2011 try, a leading scientist says. Followin...

ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert

Oct 14, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's test rover has been fitted with scientific instruments and made its first tracks in the sands of Chile's Atacama Desert. Meanwhile, team members have expl...

US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission

Oct 14, 2013 (IANS)

The partial shutdown of the US government would not affect the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) scheduled for launch Oct 28, the Indian space agency said Satur...