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Rocket carrying Phoenix probe lifts off (pic: Nasa)

Lift off for Nasa's Mars probe

Nasa launches a spacecraft on a nine-month trip to Mars, where it will search for signs of past or present life.

MARS NEWS

Request for Mars rover price

Mars dust storms threaten rovers

Volunteers sought for Mars test

Design boost for European rover

Days ahead crucial for Mars rover

Mars-probe failure 'human error'

'Cave entrances' spotted on Mars

Polar water 'would blanket Mars'

Google launches a web-based mapping service of the surface of Mars, allowing users to explore the Red Planet.

Planet search
Google offers detailed views of Martian neighbourhoods

New evidence from a Martian meteorite has re-opened the debate over whether Mars once had life.

The big question
Can it ever be proved that meteorites hold traces of Martian life?

Reull Vallis Image taken by High-Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express, 15 January 2004

Bold visions
Postcards from Mars show the Red Planet in a brand new light

FUTURE MISSIONS

Success for Mars rover bag test

Engineers test an airbag system that could be used to cushion a European rover's landing on Mars.

Space agencies will 'co-ordinate'

Russia, China aim for Red Planet

European Mars launch delayed

Phoenix lander gets go-ahead

MARS EXPRESS AND BEAGLE 2

Beagle 2 'could go to the Moon'

Scientists behind the UK's ill-fated Beagle 2 Mars mission say a near-identical probe could be used on the Moon.

Frozen sea may harbour Mars life

Beagle 2 probe 'spotted' on Mars

Martian gases pose life question

Ice belt 'encircled Mars equator'

MARS ROVERS

Rover may get one-way ticket

The chief scientist on Nasa's Mars rover mission mulls whether to send Opportunity on a risky trip into a crater.

In pictures: Probe lands on Mars

US mission lands safely on Mars

Mars probe 'in great shape'

Q/A: Robots on Mars

Martian timeline
Witness the history of Red Planet space missions

British engineers head to Tenerife to test systems they hope will keep a European rover trundling across the rocky landscape of Mars.

Meet Bridget
The research robot testing Europe's Mars technology

Nasa's rovers are getting a software upgrade that will allow them to search "intelligently" for clouds and dust devils on Mars.

Smart robots
How spacecraft now get to make up their own minds

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