News on Mars
- Discovery of significant changes in Martian sand-dunes
- Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars
- ESAs Mars Express gravity results plot volcanic history
- Impact sites hint at life on Mars
- Pit chains may hold caverns ideal for life
- New explanation for layered deposits in Mars Grand-Canyon
- A mounting - INSIDE a crater on Mars
- Wake-up on to a dusty season on Mars
- Discovery of new kind of surface on mars
- Lakes and shorelines on mars
- Tornado on Mars
- Recent geological activity on Mars
- ESA's Mars-express find evidence of past ocean
- Surface on Mars unlikely place for life
- Mars: A thin but windy atmosphere
- Observing campain of Mars's north pole
- Landslides on Mars occur spontaniously
- Martian avalanches caused by meteor impacts
- Water on Mars: maybe martian microbes
- Mars rover finds mineral vein deposited by water
- Martian polar gullies created by CO2 fluidation
- Sand-dunes move on Mars
- Most Martian-clay is subsurface originated
- Direct measurement of Mars's past temperature
- Clusters of newly formed craters on Mars
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Mars facts

Mars: 4th planet from the Sun
Distance from Sun: 228mio km.
Diameter: 6.794km.
Surface-pressure: 0,001atm.
Atm composition: 99% CO
Temp: -100ºC to +20ºC
Moons: Phobos & Deimos
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View of Mars-crater "Odyssey"s interior plains
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:18
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Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 21-kilometer-diameter Endeavour on Aug. 9, after a journey of almost 3 years.
Opportunity and Spirit completed their three-month prime missions on Mars in April 2004. Both rovers continued for years of bonus, extended missions. Both have made important discoveries about wet environments on ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life. Spirit ended communications in March 2010. More information about the rovers is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers |




