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Preparations for a manned flight to Mars

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Channels deep in the ground could be the key to habitability on Mars

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The Bio-SPHERE project investigates potential living and working conditions on the Moon and Mars
Image: In this artist's impression of the breadcrumb scenario, autonomous rovers can be seen exploring a lava tube after being deployed by a mother rover remaining at the entrance to maintain contact with a blimp or blimp. Credit: John Fowler/WikiCommons, Mark Treble Wolfgang Fink/University of Arizona

Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs reach Mars

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Engineers from the University of Arizona have developed a system that allows autonomous vehicles to scan underground habitats for astronauts
An artist's impression of a laser sail powered by directed energy. Credit: Q. Zhang/deepspace.ucsb.edu

Lasers will be able to send missions to Mars in just 45 days

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A group of researchers proposes to build a spacecraft that will rely on an innovative propulsion system - in which lasers are used to heat hydrogen fuel - that can shorten the flight time to Mars to only 45 days instead of 100
The six Harmonauts as soon as they left the Hav after the four days of the experiment, February 2018. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

A Mars simulation returns to the Ramon Crater

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The six Harmonauts as soon as they left the Hav after the four days of the experiment, February 2018. Photo: Avi Blizovsky
Artist illustration of "The Living Mars" Illustration by Kevin Gill, NASA

What can climate change on Earth teach us about climate change we will cause on Mars?

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A colony on Mars. Illustration: shutterstock

International competition for planning a human colony on Mars * Applications can be submitted until March 31

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An edible plant greenhouse on Mars. Image: shutterstock

White wine on the red planet

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Alon Shikar (right) and Jackie Faye, two of the astronauts who spent four days in an analog Mars simulator in the Mitzpe Ramon area. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

An international Mars simulation will take place in Israel

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Illustration of a human expedition to Mars. Credit: NASA

Sorry, Elon Musk, but now it's clear that colonizing Mars is unlikely - and it's a bad idea

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Alon Shikar (right) and Jackie Faye, two of the astronauts who spent four days in an analog Mars simulator in the Mitzpe Ramon area. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

For the information of travelers to Mars

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Building a base on Mars using a XNUMXD printer. Figure: (Les Bossinas, NASA Lewis Research Center)

"We could have been on Mars a long time ago"

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The "Ramonauts" simulate a mission to Mars at Mitzpe Ramon. Photo: Mincha Nofa.

First Mars simulation in Israel - the first round has ended successfully

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Simulation of the habitat structure. PR photo.

A first facility of its kind will be built in Israel that simulates a mission on Mars

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A simulation of a base on Mars, with several models of the giant ship that Elon Musk will use for development. Source: Elon Musk / SpaceX.

Elon Musk's space settlement vision

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One of four devices that researchers are testing for use on Mars. (Photo: NASA)

NASA wants to send a tricorder to Mars

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Visualization of the "Interplanetary Transportation System" (ITS) against the background of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. According to Musk, the system's motorized landing capability could allow it to reach even the distant moons of Jupiter, anywhere in the solar system. Source: Spice X.

Will Elon Musk and SpaceX establish the first human colony on Mars?

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Buzz Aldrin lectures as part of the International Space University at the Technion, July 2016. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to land on the moon and governor of the Space University presents: A circular orbit to Mars

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Astronaut Reynold Ewald at the IAC conference in Jerusalem, 16/10/15. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"If someone says that in two years he will be able to fly to Mars, that is simply not true, and does not fit with the spacecraft development schedule"

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, at the IAC conference in Jerusalem, 12/10/2015. Photo: Yair Zriker, CEO

Buzz Aldrin at the space conference in Jerusalem: "I'm not in favor of a one-time round trip to Mars - we need to build a permanent base there"

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Astronaut Clayton Anderson watches a drop of water and its reflection in the space shuttle Discovery. The cohesion of water in microgravity is different than on Earth. Photo: NASA

Save Mark Watney - the technology. Part 2: Water and Air

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The "HAB" as seen in the movie "Saving Mark Watney". Photo: FOX

Saving Mark Watney, The Technology – Chapter 1: Home on Mars

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The thin, dark streaks on the slopes of Bamai hills like the one in the section of the Horowitz Crater could have been formed by the seasonal flow of water on present-day Mars. The channels are several hundred meters long

Scientists from Stanford: discovery of flowing water on Mars increases the chances of life on the planet

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Water (frozen) on Mars. Illustration: shutterstock

Be careful of contamination of Mars with terrestrial bacteria - scientists grapple with the question of what the discovery of water on Mars means for life there and for the possibility of landing humans on it

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The Veggie Plant Growing System on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The meal is ready - the members of the space station team ate for the first time lettuce that they grew themselves

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An artistic interpretation of the Frantal Martian plane. Image: NASA

NASA's Frantal space plane will fly over Mars

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