Most people are likely to believe that life is possible somewhere else in the universe. So far, life has not been discovered anywhere outside our planet. However, signs that life is certain to develop on the red planet at some point in the future, is without doubt. As Earth may not always be the planet of choice forever.
Mars Odyssey, launched in April 7, 2001, is a robotic spacecraft which is observing Mars from space. It came into Mars’ orbit on February 19, 2002 and started its scientific observation of the red planet. The mission is part of NASA’s Mars exploration program whose aim is to find out whether Mars contained liquid water [...]
The Phoenix Mars lander is an ongoing success. It is creating its own Mars phoenix pics collection of some sort and is greatly contributing to science. I tried to collect some of the latest Mars pics direct from phoenix on board camera.
Mars phoenix pics collection.
Taken on sol 95 (Day 95) after Phoenix landed on the [...]
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a highly sophisticated spacecraft whose main purpose is to explore Mars from orbit. It has specialized cameras that feeds high resolution images of Mars to our scientists. Another purpose of the orbiter is to map out landing sites for future rovers, the MRO was the one used to map [...]