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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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Mayan Apocalypse: One-Way Tickets Show Travelers’ Panic

from Huff Post Travel

Posted: 12/11/2012 11:27 am EST

The Mayan prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012, is now affecting flight bookings according to fare finder Skyscanner, which reports that its customers have taken a sudden interest in one-way tickets to places rumored to be safe havens from the purging flames.

The villages of Bugarach in Southern France, where a UFO supposedly lies dormant in a mountain, and Şirince in Turkey are the current destinations of choice among believers who would prefer not die. This is presumably why one-way tickets searches to the South of France have increased 41 percent while one-way tickets searches to Turkey have surged by nearly a third. . . . Read Complete Report