Tag: Mars

Squirrel on Mars photo goes mainstream – evidence of Martian life?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on May 30, 2013.

Close up of NASA/JPL photo of what appears to be a squirrel/rat on Mars. Credits: UFO Sightings Daily A photo of what looks like a squirrel or rat on Mars first released in September 2012 suddenly became a hot topic after Fox News covered the story on May 29. Fox was quickly followed by Discovery...

Artist’s rendering of a manned Mars mission. Credit: NASA

Plan announced for manned mission to Mars in 2018

Written by Dr Michael Salla on February 21, 2013.

Artist’s rendering of a manned Mars mission. Credit: NASA It has just been announced that the world’s first space tourist, Dennis Tito, is leading a private effort to send a manned space flight to Mars in January 2018. A Media Advisory titled “The Planets are Aligning for a Once-in-a-Generation...

Is that a crashed UFO on Mars?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on January 7, 2013.

An anomalous object has just been found on Mars that appears to be a crashed UFO lying just under the Martian dust. The object was discovered by Scott Waring using Google Mars Map which gives users the ability to examine the Martian surface using satellite imagery. In an announcement released...

Is NASA muzzling scientific results from Mars Curiosity Mission?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on November 30, 2012.

Mars Curiosity Rover scoops up five soil samples for analysis by its SAM instrumentYesterday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) took the extraordinary step of dampening speculation over comments made by one of the leaders of the Mars Curiosity Mission. Just before Thanksgiving, on...

SpaceX to create Mars colony of 80,000 – antigravity technology would enable vision before end of decade

Written by Dr Michael Salla on November 27, 2012.

Artist depiction. Mars Colony. Credit: SpaceXIn 1606, King James I of England granted the first Royal Charter to establish colonies in the New World. In a modern day reprise, Elon Musk, the founder of Paypal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, plans to build a colony of up to 80,000 people on Mars....

Is NASA set to announce discovery of Martian fossils by Curiosity Rover?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on November 24, 2012.

Artistic depiction of NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a nuclear-powered mobile robot for investigating Mars past or present ability to sustain microbial life. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA is about to make a big announcement from its Curiosity Rover Mars mission according to John...

Curiosity lands on Mars – a step forward or backward in finding life?

Written by Dr Michael Salla on August 6, 2012.

This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Early this morning US Eastern Time, the Mars Science Laboratory (aka Curiosity rover) successfully landed on Mars. “Curiosity's main assignment,” according to NASA,...