Mars Challenge

NASA Contest Wants Your Ideas to Keep Astronauts Safe on Mars
by Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor   |   May 07, 2015 

 

To prepare for future colonies on Mars, NASA is asking the public for ideas on how to keep Red Planet astronauts safe that require minimal resupplies from Earth.
The "Journey to Mars Challenge" will give a $5,000 award to each of the three winning participants who describe an original idea that could assist the human exploration of Mars.

China's Jade Rabbit On The Moon

Last week China landed its first robotic probe to the Moon. A monumental feat as the Moon Rover now begins its journey exploring the lunar surface and a visitation on the Moon not seen since the United States Man-Moon landings over 40 years before. The “Jade Rabbit” probe landed in the Bay Of Rainbows. Many still wish other countries would send other probes or more man missions to the Moon and investigate known regions of strange surface anomalies that postulate an alien presence of some kind. For now the Jade Rabbit is on the move and sniffing the ground for buried mineral deposits.