As NASA prepares to launch its new Curiosity Mars rover, we look back at some of the highlights--and the misfires--in more than 50 years of Mars missions
November 3, 2011 |
Scientific American Magazine
The Mars Phoenix mission revived hopes that the Red Planet may be habitable, preparing the way for a new rover to be launched this month
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Two Mars missions are scheduled to launch this month. How have their predecessors fared?
Interactive Features
Here is a look at where humankind's many Mars landers have touched down, and where the planet betrays a history of all-important liquid water
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Mars has plenty of minerals that suggest a watery past, but that does not mean that the Red Planet once looked like Earth
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The Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative (GBFAI) is launching the 2013 Geoffrey Beene Global NeuroDiscovery Challenge whose
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