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| | Exploration of Mars Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
 | | Many scientists have argued that if life is found on Mars, all human activities on the planet should be carried out with the goal of preservation in mind. | | | Mars 4 and 7 both missed the planet. | | | Mars is a rocky planet, like Earth, that formed around the same time, yet it is only between one-quarter and one-third the surface area and its surface is cold and desert-like. |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Exploration_of_Mars
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| | CBC News - Indepth: Space: Mars |
| | However, the question of life on Mars, either past or present, remains a great motivator in the exploration of the Red Planet. | | | But it has not lost its appeal; in fact, we now know the surface of Mars almost as well as we know the deserts of our own planet. | | | Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has often been called a sister planet to our own Earth. |
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| | Mars |
| | The presence of methane on Mars would be very intriguing, since as an unstable gas it indicates that there must be (or have been within the last few hundred years) a source of the gas on the planet. | | | Observations of the magnetic fields on Mars by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have revealed that parts of the planet's crust has been magnetized. | | | One interesting theory, published in 1999 and reexamined in October 2005 in a publication by the same group, is that these bands could be evidence of the past operation of plate tectonics on Mars. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/m/ma/mars.html
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| | MARS - ENCHANTED LEARNING SOFTWARE |
| | Mars, the red planet, is the fourth planet from the sun and the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. | | | How to write a report on a planet - plus a rubric. | | | Mars is 1.524 times farther from than the sun than the Earth is. It averages 141.6 million miles (227.9 million km) from the sun. |
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| | Face On Mars Encyclopedia Article @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) |
| | The Face on Mars is a large feature on the surface of the planet Mars located in the Cydonia region, thought by many to resemble a human face. | | | The popular TV show Futurama portrays the face of Mars as the entrance to the center of the planet where the ancient Martians live. | | | Mars Global Surveyor's 1998 image of the 'eye' |
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| | NASA - Approaching Mars |
| | Between now and August, Mars will brighten until it "blazes forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself." Astronomer Percival Lowell, who famously mapped the canals of Mars, wrote those words to describe the planet during a similar close encounter in the 19th century. | | | Mars and the sun are on opposite sides of the sky. | | | Mars and Earth have been almost this close many times in recent history. |
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http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/18jun_approachingmars.html
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| | ORRERY: Mars - the red planet |
| | Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. | | | Like Earth, Venus, and Mercury, Mars is a rocky planet, but is relatively small, being between Mercury and Venus in size. | | | Viking 1 and 2 were to land on the planet in 1976 and provided the first views from the planet's surface. |
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| | MarsNews.com :: NewsWire for the New Frontier |
| | The most advanced spacecraft to reach Mars has begun adjusting its orbit so that it can study the planet in detail this fall, scientists said Friday. | | | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Aerobraking The Planetary Society | | | The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) began the six-month aerobraking phase with rehearsals or drag passes last Friday and tomorrow night the spacecraft will dip down for its first "taste" of the Red Planet's atmosphere. |
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| | Mars rovers showing signs of age CNET News.com |
| | Bell and his team have captured images of an eclipse on Mars (where the Martian moon Phobos gets obscured by the shadow of the planet) and what appears to be a meteor shower. | | | Spirit and Opportunity, the two robotic vehicles roving the red planet, have lasted more than 22 months, far longer than anyone anticipated, said scientists and program managers from the Mars rover program speaking at the American Geophysical Union, an annual conference of earth scientists taking place here this week. | | | "Mars lost most of its atmosphere and, with it, its water," he said. |
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| | Mars [encyclopedia] |
| | Since Mars and the sun appear on opposite sides of the sky, we say that Mars is in "opposition." If Earth and Mars followed perfectly circular orbits, opposition would be as close as the two planets could get. | | | If Earth and Mars both had perfectly stable orbits, then each perihelic opposition would bring the two planets as close as they could be. | | | Over the past centuries, Mars' orbit has been getting more and more elongated, carrying the planet even nearer to the sun at perihelion and even farther away at aphelion. |
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| | CNN.com - Earth braces for Mars close encounter - Aug. 26, 2003 |
| | Looking to the skies for the best view of the planet Mars in 60,000 years | | | "Mars fever has caught, not only for amateur astronomers, who are getting their best look at the planet ever and that we'll ever have in our life, but also for professionals, as you know, with the [NASA] Mars Rovers and other spacecraft that are en route," said David Eicher, editor of Astronomy magazine. | | | Besides awing the curious, the alignment has motivated numerous governments to dispatch missions to the red planet. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/26/mars.closeup
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| | CBC News - Indepth: Space: Mars |
| | However, the question of life on Mars, either past or present, remains a great motivator in the exploration of the Red Planet. | | | But it has not lost its appeal; in fact, we now know the surface of Mars almost as well as we know the deserts of our own planet. | | | Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has often been called a sister planet to our own Earth. |
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| | Holger Isenberg's Mars News |
| | Mars was tidal locked in orbit of this planet, like the Moon to Earth, which deformed Mars and caused higher water concentrations at two antipodal regions at the equator. | | | According to the Lectures Programme the latest results from the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on Mars Express are discussed, which might be about the possible discovery of ammonia, formaldehyde and other gases indicating biological activity. | | | This paper is about the model of Mars as a former moon of the exploded planet in the orbit of todays asteroid-belt. |
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| | Mars (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The planet Mars and the male sex are both commonly represented by the astronomical or gender symbol ♂, which originally represented the shield and spear of Mars and was popularized as the alchemical symbol for iron. | | | The blood-red fourth planet in the Solar System, Mars, was also named after Mars; an adjective form of Mars, Martian (from Martianus), is most commonly used in reference to the planet. | | | Mars' wife was also said to be Nerio. |
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| | MARS (PLANET) Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the SOLAR SYSTEM, the next one beyond Earth's orbit. | | | Mars speeds along at 24 km/sec (15 mi/sec) in the same counterclockwise direction (when viewed from above the planet's north pole) as all the other planets. | | | Mars and Earth have similar global atmospheric circulation patterns because of their other similarities. |
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| | Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mars has two tiny natural moons, Phobos and Deimos, which orbit very close to the planet and are thought to be captured asteroids. | | | One theory, published in 1999 and reexamined in October 2005 in a publication by the same group, is that these bands could be evidence of the past operation of plate tectonics on Mars. | | | Wells' The War of the Worlds, in which Martians seek to escape their dying planet by invading Earth. |
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| | MARS - LoveToKnow Article on MARS |
| | The least possible distance would occur in an opposition about the end of August, a little before Mars reached the perihelion, because the eccentricity of the earths orbit throws our planet a little farther from the sun and nearer the orbit of Mars in July than it does in August. | | | 1.Orbits of Mars and the Earth, showing aspects of the planet relative to the earth and sun. | | | Comparison spectrograms of Mars and the Moon, taken by him at equal altitudes on such plates, eight in all, show the a band, the great band of water-vapour was distinctly stronger in the spectrum of Mars, thus affording what appeared decisive evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of the planet. |
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| | Zecharia Sitchin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Its catastrophic collision with Tiamat, a planet that was between Mars and Jupiter, would have formed the planet Earth and the asteroid belt and comets. | | | According to his theories of Sumerian cosmology, Nibiru was the twelfth member in the solar system family of planets (which includes 10 planets, the Sun, and the Moon). | | | However, Anu was one of the Nefilim who came from the planet Nibiru (Marduk). |
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| | Talk:Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Finally, it is weird that Mars has no own article on its geology, as it is by far the most studied planet after the Earth. | | | Mars (planet) is being proposed to be moved to Mars, with reference to Mars (disambiguation) at the top. | | | Mars is visibly redder than the other planets, and to someone who is good at seeing these color differences (I'm not so good at it) the difference can be pronounced to the naked eye. |
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| | ESA - Mars Express - The mission |
| | Mars Express has completed its nominal mission lifetime and has been in orbit around the Red Planet for one Martian year, 687 Earth days. | | | Having escaped the Earth's pull, Mars Express was sent on course for the Red Planet, cruising at a velocity of 10 800 kilometres and hour, relative to Earth. | | | During each orbit, Mars Express spends some time turned towards the planet for instrument observations and some time turned towards Earth for communications with ground stations. |
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| | Mars Today |
| | This circle represents the largest possible apparent size of Mars as viewed from Earth (which is achieved only on those very rare occasions -- like the one earlier this year -- when the planets are both favorably positioned at the nearest points in their orbits). | | | In contrast, it is late winter in the northern hemisphere of Mars and the sun is approaching that planet's equator. | | | The upper left panel diagrams the current positions of Mars and Earth in their orbits around the Sun. |
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| | red_faction.txt |
| | Mars is the planet of opportunity, its mineral wealth feeding the insatiable needs of Earth, a planet stripped of raw materials and minerals. | | | Ultor Corporation, aptly named after the ancient Roman temple dedicated to Mars the god of war, owns all the mining rights on the planet. | | | For weeks now, we've been blanketing the barracks with pamphlets condemning Ultor and blaming them for everything wrong on Mars. |
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| | Mars (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | "Mars, the Bringer of War" is a (A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something) movement in (Click link for more info and facts about Gustav Holst) Gustav Holst's (Click link for more info and facts about The Planets) The Planets suite. | | | (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars was a short-lived (Click link for more info and facts about No Wave) No Wave (Something elongated that is worn around the body or one of the limbs) band. | | | (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars was the god of (The waging of armed conflict against an enemy) war in (The mythology of the ancient Romans) Roman mythology. |
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| | Mars - Astronomy for Kids |
| | It is perhaps fitting that a planet with the ominous reputation of Mars should have two moons that are named for the horses that pulled the chariot of the Roman god of war. | | | Also, there appeared to be dark lines on the surface of the planet that some overenthusiastic observers thought were canals made by intelligent life forms on the planet. | | | All of these "observations" just fueled the speculation, or perhaps wishful thinking, that Mars was inhabited by intelligent life. |
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| | StarDate Online Solar System Guide Mars |
| | The farthest of the terrestrial planets from the Sun, Mars orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt. | | | The planet's surface is red because iron in its soil long ago reacted with the tiny amount of oxygen left on Mars to produce rust. | | | Scientists, too, have speculated about the possibility of life on Mars. |
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| | Home Page |
| | Mars was a lush green, life supporting planet with a much closer orbit to the sun | | | It passed close to priori-Mars on numerous occasions, transferring further orbital energy to the Red Planet. | | | But these were not nearly as traumatic as the earlier close encounters of proto-Venus which had wreaked total havoc and killed most animal life on the planet. |
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| | The Face on Mars |
| | mars martian face face on mars cydonia viking mariner red planet planet nasa photograph photographs canali canal canals channels channel lines giovanni virginio schiaparelli ancient civilization lost ruins message percival lowell water irrigation polar ice caps telescope telescopes observatory sphinx pyramids conspiracy conspiracies global surveyor orbitor camera cameras satellite satellites | | | Lowell's widely-publicized (and widely criticized) theory was that a highly evolved civilization of creatures used the canals to direct water from the Mars polar ice caps to irrigate crops in the equatorial areas of the planets. | | | Lowell never did make any definitive discoveries about Mars, but before his death in 1916 using measurements he made on irregularities in the orbit of Uranus, he accurately predicted the existence of the planet Pluto which was discovered in 1930. |
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| | The centuries-old allure of Mars - Return to the Red Planet - MSNBC.com |
| | The Mars Global Surveyor, which began orbiting the planet in September 1997, is still sending back detailed images of the surface. | | | He described an Earthlike Mars criss-crossed by “canals” which, he said, were artificial waterways built by Martians, and said the planet’s surface was covered with vegetation. | | | The Viking landers were accompanied by Mars orbiters that found water ice at the planet’s north polar region, in contrast to solid carbon dioxide in the south polar region. |
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| | Prophecy In The News Articles List |
| | Upon closer examination during the last half of the twentieth century, since the advent of space probes, Mars has yielded ample evidence that it deserves the title “god of war.” The planet has been the site of several ancient catastrophes. | | | According to the theory, on March 20, 701 B.C., Mars was to harass the Earth for the last time. | | | While many speculations about ancient life on Mars have been made in recent years, JPL photos are beginning to dispel those theories. |
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| | The Planetary Society: Missions to Mars |
| | Identical to the Mars 2 spacecraft, Mars 3 delivered a descent craft to the Red Planet that survived on the surface for 20 seconds before mysteriously shutting down. | | | When Pathfinder arrived at Mars on July 4, 1997, it passed directly through the atmosphere, shed its heat shield, fired its retro-rockets, deployed a set of airbags and then bounced to a stop on the martian surface, all within four minutes of arriving at the Red Planet. | | | Mars 3 completed 20 orbits around Mars before it was shut down on August 22, 1972. |
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