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NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. (read full story)

The Red Planet Report wrote an article about Dr. Livio Tornabene's (CPSX Research Associate) research! (read full story)

A dust devil on Mars has been caught in the act of tearing across the Red Planet in a spectacular new photo by a NASA spacecraft. (read full story)

Geologic and Hydrologic Evolution, Physical and Chemical Environments, and the Implications for Life (read full story)

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Next week a Russian probe called Phobos-Grunt is due to be launched towards the tiny moon of Mars. Piggybacking on the Phobos-Grunt mission is something called the LIFE experiment, or the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. This mission, supported by the Planetary Society, is to help provide evidence for the panspermia (or transpermia) hypothesis. (read full story)

The Haughton Mars Project is a Mars Institute led project to explore the technical challenges of Martian exploration in a terrestrial analogue site. Many CPSX students and researchers have visited the Haughton impact site for research ranging in nature from the geophysical to the astrobiological. Recently, a team from NASA Ames was at the Martian analogue site to test a new drill for a potential followup mission to Phoenix, dubbed IceBreaker (read full story)

Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. (read full story)

NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. (read full story)