Mars changed from a warm planet into a colder one, now some news

Long ago, something bad happened to Mars, transforming a warm and hospitable world into the cold, seemingly lifeless desert we view today. Many scientists believe the Red Planet lost most of its atmospher. A new NASA mission named MAVEN is specifically designed to answer some questions about the series of events.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/06nov_maven.htm?list1285438

Ice seen in Martian craters produced by meteorites

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24sep_martianice.htm?list1285438

Mars will not look as big "as a saucer " this August

Here it comes again. The planet Mars will be close but it will NOT appear as "big as the Moon" so some people and naysayers say.
This cartoon was just in the newspaper concerning this.

Methane gas on Mars : might it indicate life

Interesting development finding methane gas
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/01/15/methane_plume_on_mars_a_sign_of_life/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed5

Has Pheonix lander demise end the mission?

Possibly the end has come to the Phoenix mission, five months after the spacecraft first landed 0n Mars' in the arctic plains and found water on another planet.

Mars Mission Ends for Phoenix Spacecraft
By ALICIA CHANG

http://news.aol.com/article/nasa-says-phoenix-mars-mission-is-over/180473

Mars news

Snowfall Seen on Mars
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 29 September 2008
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080929-phoenix-update.html


Wind and Snow Do Strange Things on Mars
By Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
posted: 29 September 2008
06:53 am ET
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080929-mm-mars-ice.html


Melting Glaciers Sculpted Mars Gullies
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 25 August 2008
05:56 pm ET
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080825-mars-gullies.html

Mars Lanader probes soil even further

Analysis has begun of soil sampled  delivered to NASA's
Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug
in the Martian arctic plains.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080902trenching.html

mars rover leaves crater

One of the rover needed to leave the crater it was in

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/080829-opportunity-marscrater.html


mars rover 10 best discoveries
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top10_rover_discovery.html

More clues to water and more for Mars

Layers of clay-rich rock have been found in Mars’ Mawrth Vallis

http://www.seti.org/news/press-releases/martian-clays.php

Getting those 3D glasses to see the ditch made on Mars

Pheonix is trying to put soil from a hole and put it in the oven to learn more about the soil composition and more
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/images/press/anaglyphSS058EFF901343526_16776L1M1_full.html

Phoenix Mars Lander shows Sun in Arctic Midnight

It's the Midnight Sun on Mars. Phoenix Mars Lander shows Sun in Arctic Midnight in this panorama landscape. More about the mission and the lander and photos at

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html

Photographic studies of Mars showed there once was water

Scientists are now saying Mars once had water and if so ancient fossils may lie in the sediments . Latest evidence and photos and more.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro-20080716.html

Mars rocks glide mysteriously across surface

Like rocks that mysteriously glide across desert surfaces, these Martian rocks have some how skittered across the Martian surface. Read more about what may be causing this
Get some 3D glasses and look at the path
7/13/2008 (if not read archives)
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Got your 3D glass/viewers - use to look at Martain features

Looking into this Martian area, look  at the 3d effect on Mars.
http:/http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2008/28jun08/vantuyne1.jpg?PHPSESSID=ngh7bv2u4jt2b71p1es9m6m717

Martian soil is analyzed

The Mars Pheonix lander has started and completed a first round of soil analysis. Interesting results have already been concluded.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080626.html

We know it was Martian ice because it has disappeared

Watch this time lapse photo swap and see how the Martian ice disappeared into the thin Martian air. Phoenix has now already proven and found (water ) ice on Mars.
6/23/2008 (if not this day use archives
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Can rugged alien life forms exist on Mars?

Extremophiles, organisms that thrive in very inhospitable places compared to human life habitats have been discovered in many places in the oceans, in hots pools, arid places and more. Perhaps martian organisms may be hardy enough to survive the Martian weather.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5221478

That white substance was most likely Mars ice

Scientists say refering to the white materials found in a ditch that the Phoenix lander dug.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080619.html

Pheonix Mars lander inspects soil samples

The investigation and more research begins.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/phoenix/news.php

There might be ice on Mars

There might be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday, May 25. The possible ice appears in an image the robotic arm camera took underneath the lander, near a footpad.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080530.html