Latest Mars Stories
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Today Mars Chocolate North America announced SNICKERS® Brand will showcase their new "You're Not You When You're Hungry®" :30 second commercial during the Grammy's on CBS this Sunday. The spot, which originally aired during the SAG Awards, features Robin Williams and Bobcat Goldthwait, and is the latest addition to the popular global campaign that was created by BBDO New York. The new commercial also will kick-off an exciting...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online With all the attention being paid to Mars, we are learning something new about the red planet almost daily. Each new revelation is pretty heady information. But what about the weather on our celestial neighbor? One of the most common questions that people have is whether Mars is hot or cold. The early days of Earth was marked by a climate that was both warm and wet, and mirrors what Mars was like some 3.5 billion years ago....
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA announced on Thursday its Curiosity rover has performed a mini drilling test on Mars for the first time. The drill, according to NASA, went through percussion and rotation tests to bore into about 0.8-inches of rock on Mars, generating cuttings for evaluation in advance of the rover's first sample-collection drilling. NASA said this test was confirmed in data received from Mars late Wednesday at the Jet Propulsion...
Rayshell Clapper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online If you were going to open a space-themed restaurant, what planet would you choose to focus the place around? Well in 1999, one group thought Mars would be the best space object for a themed restaurant, so they opened Mars 2112. And why not? If Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and a slew of others can write about Mars, why not create a restaurant tourist trap in none other than New York paying homage to Earth’s favorite sister...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists will never know who first looked to the heavens and noticed the pale pink, barely visible orb that graces our early morning skies. We do know the Greeks named the red planet Ares in honor of their god of war. It wasn’t until the Romans came on the scene and renamed this celestial sphere for their own god of war, however, that we came to know our heavenly neighbor as Mars. Over the years, Mars has received a lot of...
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Mars Chocolate North America introduced M&M'S® Brand's M'Prove America(TM),' a new cause-related marketing partnership with Habitat For Humanity International designed to make 'America Better With M' by funding home construction across the United States. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130206/CG55633) M&M'S® Brand will donate $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity International to help fund the construction...
NASA The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive action. The successful activity, called a "drill-on-rock checkout" by the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, is part of a series of tests to prepare for the first drilling in history to collect a sample of rock material on Mars. Another preparatory test, called "mini drill," will precede the full...
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid 150-feet in diameter that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15. The flyby creates a unique opportunity for researchers to observe and learn more about asteroids. The teleconference participants are: --Lindley Johnson, program executive, Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington --Timothy Spahr, director, Minor Planet Center, Harvard-Smithsonian...
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., Feb. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Mars Chocolate North America unveiled a new M&M'S® Brand 30 second television commercial featuring actress Naya Rivera and the M&M'S character, Red. The spot aired during the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVII on CBS as part of the brand's new integrated marketing campaign, 'Better With M(TM),' which showcases how M&M'S irresistible chocolate makes moments more fun and delicious. The ad, created by BBDO New York,...
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Mars Chocolate North America introduced a teaser video of M&M'S® Brand's new 30 second television commercial that will air during the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday. The ad, which was created by BBDO New York, is part of the brand's new 'Better With M' campaign. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
Latest Mars Reference Libraries
Hematite (AE) or haematite (BE) is the mineral form of Iron (III) oxide, (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. The ore sometimes contains slight amounts of titanium. When shaped into ornaments, it is often called black diamond. Hematite is a very common mineral, coloured black to steel or silver-gray, brown to reddish brown, or red. It is mined as the main ore of iron. Varieties include Bloodstone, Iron Rose, Kidney Ore, Martite, Paint Ore, Specularite (Specular Hematite), Rainbow Hematite...
Terraforming -- Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") is the process of modifying a planet, moon or other body to a more habitable atmosphere, temperature or ecology. The term was first used in a science fiction novel, 'Seetee Shock' (1940?) by Jack Williamson, but the actual concept is older than that. An example in fiction is 'First and Last Men' by Olaf Stapledon in which Venus is modified, after a long and destructive war with the original inhabitants, who naturally object to the...
Extraterrestrial Life -- Extraterrestrial life is life beyond planet Earth (apart from humans travelling in space, and living organisms they bring along or send). There are many questions about extraterrestrial life, including: -- Does it exist? -- Where? -- What kind? -- Could there be non-carbon based life forms, e.g. life forms based on other elements like silicon (See Carbon chauvinism)? -- How does life differ depending on the type of structure (unicellular life,...
Drake Equation -- The Drake equation (also known as the Green Bank equation) is a famous result in the speculative fields of xenobiology and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake in the 1960s in an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact. The main purpose of the equation is to allow scientists to quantify the uncertainty of the factors which determine the number...
Olympus Mons -- Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain in the solar system, at 25 km. Located on Mars, and officially called by its Latin name Olympus Mons. It is named for the mountain on Earth. Olympus Mons is an apparently extinct shield volcano, the result of highly fluid magma flowing out of volcanic vents over a long period of time, and is much wider than it is tall; the average slope of Olympus Mons' flanks is very gradual. The Hawaiian islands are an example of similar shield...
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