Tag Archives: Mars

NASA abandons Mars rover Spirit, chooses to remember the good times

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by author-unknown

More than a year after it first lost contact with its Mars rover Spirit, NASA has finally decided to throw in the towel. Yesterday, the agency confirmed that it will end all planned communications with the robot on May 25th, effectively ending the c… Continue reading →

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The Crazy Design of NASA’s New Mars Rover [Mars]

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 by author-unknown

Nasa is getting ready to throw a Mini Cooper-sized mobile science lab up into space. Curiosity, as the rover is affectionately called, is headed toward Mars with a payload of lasers and mass spectrometers and multi-million dollar robotic drills-basical… Continue reading →

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Charles Darwin performed the world’s first terraforming experiment [Mad Science]

Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 by author-unknown

Nearly two centuries ago, famed scientists Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker transformed the barren volcanic island of Ascension into a lush artificial ecosystem, unwittingly inventing terraforming. Now, Darwin’s incredible achievement could help us tra… Continue reading →

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Space Food Turns Gross Within a Year

Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by author-unknown

CHICAGO — Most people find the palatability of in-flight entrees an oxymoron. But even frequent fliers seldom encounter more than a few such meals per week. Astronauts, in contrast, may have to survive months in orbit dining on a really limited menu… Continue reading →

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