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"We have had a very serious anomaly on the vehicle." Peter Theisinger, project manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on the sudden interruption in communication from the Mars rover Spirit
If mankind is visiting Mars, why not the reverse? Maybe signs of life are hard to come by up there because all the Martians are down here. And maybe not. But here are the top destinations for the discerning Martian hunter.
There's nothing terribly remarkable about Building 29 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston until you consider that that's where they will be storing Mars--or at least a pretty good facsimile of it. Spread out inside the sprawling structure will soon be a dead-ringer Mars base...
This ersatz Mars has been in the works for years, but until now few people have paid much attention to it, largely because nobody realistically expected to set human eyes on the genuine planet anytime soon. As of last week, however, Building 29 could become the center of the universe...
ESA Overshadowed for weeks by the U.S. rover Spirit, Europe's Mars Express - which has been orbiting the Red Planet since Dec. 25 - finally got its day in the sun. As well as relaying stunning close-ups of Mars, the orbiter detected ice at its south pole and identified water...