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NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars (+) How 3,500 of us want a one-way trip to Mars and be filmed on a ‘space-age reality TV programme’

Featured Image: Planet Mars. SOURCE: NASA (Public-Domain).

From Mars Daily by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2013

NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars

The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days

This second drilling target, called “Cumberland,” lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity’s drill first touched Martian stone in February. Curiosity took the first rock sample ever collected on Mars from that rock, called “John Klein.” . . . Read Complete Report

And while we’re talking about Mars. . . 

From Mail Online (UK)

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 16:50 EST, 12 May 2013 | UPDATED: 17:03 EST, 12 May 20 2012

How 3,500 of us want a one-way trip to Mars and be filmed on a ‘space-age reality TV programme’

More than 3,500 Britons have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars under a bold plan to fly four people there every year from 2023.

The colonists have to agree to stay on the red planet for the rest of their lives – and be filmed for a reality TV programme.

Mars One, the Dutch company behind the project, says energy will come from solar panels and eats will be grown on the planet. The venture has attracted 78,000 applications from more than 120 countries. . . . Read Complete Report

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From youtube uploaded by UFOTVstudios Aug 14, 2012

UFOTV® Presents – MISSION TO MARS: The Red Planet

Ongoing: Insight into possable alien life in Lake Vostok & Upcoming Lake Elsworth Drilling (video)

from ZME Science “Not Exactly Rocket Science”

Thu, Feb 16, 2012

After two decades of drilling in the frozen wastelands of Antarctica, Russian researchers have finally managed to drill down to lake Vostok, which has been sealed under kilometers of ice for over 15 million years.

When they first announced they reached the water, biologists were ecstatic; not only did they get a unique chance to fill in some evolutionary gaps, but they also have access to organisms which have evolved differently then other ones from our planet. But they weren’t the only ones to be thrilled – . . . Read complete report

from youtube

British scientist disperses rumors about Lake Vostok & Updates Lake Elsworth project

UPDATE: ‘Lost World’ Reached: 20 Million Yr Old Antarctic Lake ‘Drilled’

from RT.com

After 30 years spent drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice crust, researchers have finally broken through to a unique subglacial lake. Scientists are set to reveal its 20-million-year-old secrets, and imitate a quest to discover ET life.

The Vostok project breathes an air of mystery and operates at the frontiers of human knowledge. The lake is one of the major discoveries in modern geography; drilling operations at such depths are unprecedented; never before has a geological project required such subtle technologies.

The main inspiration for the project – the Russian scientist who posited the lake’s existence – died just six months before the moment of contact with the lake’s surface. Now, the whole world is looking to Lake Vostok for crucial data which might help to predict climate change.

Yesterday [on Sunday] our scientists at the Vostok polar station in the Antarctic completed drilling at depths of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the subglacial lake,” RIA Novosti reported, quoting an unnamed Russian scientist. . . Read complete report