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Red Planet's Moons, Together at Last

(Dec. 11) -- The Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been photographed in the same frame for the first time. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter snapped a series of images of the two diminutive moons on Nov. 5 and released the pictures today. The images will help researchers refine models of the two moons'...

If Red Planet Turned Green, We Might Miss It

(Dec. 3) - If a little green man on Mars waved at us, would NASA notice? Probably not, at least not at the moment. Three of the four U.S. spacecraft monitoring the Red Planet are on the fritz -- one of them perhaps never to recover. The wheeled robot Spirit, which has motored around Mars since 2004, is stuck in a sand...