[Tuesday, February 5, 2008] Mars is about to come into 3D focus as never before, thanks to the data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC).

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[Tuesday, February 5, 2008] "This week, in stark contrast to the successful performance of the Mars exploration program, NASA announced a significant reduction in the FY09 budget for Mars exploration"

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[Saturday, February 9, 2008] Steve Halla's class at Leap Academy Charter High School in Camden, NJ, suggested this image, a region near the intersection of Elysium Chasma and Hyblaeus Chasma. The class suggested the image might shed light on the mechanism(s) that formed it.

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[Saturday, February 9, 2008] It's very flat, few rocks and actually a lot of ice in this case, he said during a presentation of the NASAbot to the McMurdo community. It's similar to Mars in that it'svery flat. You have different contour.

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[Friday, February 15, 2008] Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving.

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[Thursday, February 21, 2008] Editor's note; Several days ago I submitted some questions to NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate regarding progress in the Ares 1 & V and Orion programs.

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[Monday, February 25, 2008] The scenario of lithopanspermia describes the viable transport of microorganisms via meteorites.

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[Monday, February 25, 2008] Studies on the colonization of environmentally extreme ground surfaces were conducted in a Mars-like desert area of Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, with microalgae and cyanobacteria.

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[Monday, February 25, 2008] We have investigated how morphological biosignatures (i.e., features related to life) might be identified with an array of viable instruments within the framework of robotic planetary surface operations at Mars.

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[Monday, February 25, 2008] In the event that an asteroid or comet would impact Earth and send rock fragments containing embedded microorganisms into space, at least some of those organisms might survive and reseed on Earth or another planetary surface able to support life.

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[Tuesday, February 26, 2008] Onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It's the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth's orbit.

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[Tuesday, February 26, 2008] Modelling of the Earth's atmosphere has acquired economic importance due to its use in the prediction of ozone depletion and in measuring the impact of global warming.

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[Thursday, February 28, 2008] Three Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25.

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