96 relations: Aberystwyth University, Airbag, Airbus, Associated Press, Astrium, Astrobiology, Atmosphere of Mars, Atmospheric entry, Baikonur, Baikonur Cosmodrome, BBC, BBC News, Beagle 3, Biosignature, Blur (band), British Summer Time, Charles Darwin, Chromatography, Climate of Mars, Colin Pillinger, Coordinated Universal Time, Damien Hirst, Darian calendar, David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, David Southwood, Earth, Electric battery, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars (rover), Exploration of Mars, Failure cause, Fregat, Geochemistry, Geology of Mars, Ground segment, HiRISE, HMS Beagle, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, HuffPost, Isidis Planitia, Isotopes of carbon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Leicester, Life, Life on Mars, List of artificial objects on Mars, List of missions to Mars, Logica, ..., Mars, Mars atmospheric entry, Mars Express, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars landing, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Martin-Baker, Mass spectrometry, Mössbauer spectroscopy, McLaren Applied Technologies, Meteorology, Micrometre, Microscope, Mineralogy, NASA, National Space Centre, National Space Science Data Center, New Scientist, Open University, Oxidation state, Parachute, Robot, Schiaparelli EDM lander, Science Museum, London, SCISYS, Sedimentary basin, Select committee (United Kingdom), Solar panel, Soyuz-FG, Space.com, Spirit (rover), Stereoscopy, Telecommunication, The Guardian, The New York Times, Transformers (film), Twitter, Ultra high frequency, United Kingdom, United States dollar, University of Leicester, Viking lander biological experiments, Viking program, Watt, X-ray spectroscopy, 2001 Mars Odyssey. Expand index (46 more) »
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales.
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Airbag
An airbag is a type of vehicle safety device and is an occupant restraint system.
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Airbus
Airbus SE is a European corporation, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Astrium
Astrium was an aerospace manufacturer subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) that provided civil and military space systems and services from 2006 to 2013.
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Astrobiology
Astrobiology is a branch of biology concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.
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Atmosphere of Mars
The atmosphere of the planet Mars is composed mostly of carbon dioxide.
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Atmospheric entry
Atmospheric entry is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet or natural satellite.
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Baikonur
Baikonur (translit; translit), formerly known as Leninsk (also, see Tyuratam), is a city of republic significance in Kazakhstan on the Northern bank of the Syr Darya river, rented and administered by the Russian Federation.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome (translit; translit) is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Beagle 3
Beagle 3 (also called Beagle 2: Evolution) was a proposed Mars lander mission to search for life on Mars, past or present.
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Biosignature
A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon – that provides scientific evidence of past or present life.
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Blur (band)
Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.
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British Summer Time
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (in effect, changing the time zone from UTC+0 to UTC+1), so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Chromatography
Chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture.
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Climate of Mars
The climate of the planet Mars has been an issue of scientific curiosity for centuries, in part because it is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from the Earth with help from a telescope.
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Colin Pillinger
Colin Trevor Pillinger, (9 May 1943 – 7 May 2014) was an English planetary scientist.
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Coordinated Universal Time
No description.
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Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector.
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Darian calendar
The Darian calendar is a proposed system of time-keeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars.
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David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, FRS, HonFREng (born 24 October 1940) is a British businessman and politician.
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David Southwood
Professor David John Southwood (born 30 June 1945) is a British space scientist who holds the post of Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Electric battery
An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections provided to power electrical devices such as flashlights, smartphones, and electric cars.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA; Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.
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ExoMars
ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is a two-part astrobiology project to search for evidence of life on Mars, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
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ExoMars (rover)
The ExoMars rover is a planned robotic Mars rover, part of the international ExoMars programme led by the European Space Agency and the Russian Roscosmos State Corporation.
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Exploration of Mars
The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft.
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Failure cause
Failure causes are defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure.
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Fregat
Fregat (Фрегат, frigate) is an upper stage developed by NPO Lavochkin in the 1990s, which is used in some Soyuz and Zenit rockets.
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Geochemistry
Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans.
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Geology of Mars
The geology of Mars is the scientific study of the surface, crust, and interior of the planet Mars.
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Ground segment
A ground segment consists of all the ground-based elements of a spacecraft system used by operators and support personnel, as opposed to the space segment and user segment.
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HiRISE
For the Apple accessory see Twelve South High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Isidis Planitia
Isidis Planitia is a plain located inside a giant impact basin on Mars, centered at; Isidis Planitia is partly in the Syrtis Major quadrangle and partly in the Amenthes quadrangle.
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Isotopes of carbon
Carbon (6C) has 15 known isotopes, from 8C to 22C, of which 12C and 13C are stable.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in Pasadena, California, United States, with large portions of the campus in La Cañada Flintridge, California.
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Jodrell Bank Observatory
The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999) is a British observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
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Leicester
Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.
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Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that do have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate.
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Life on Mars
The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of significant interest to astrobiology due to its proximity and similarities to Earth.
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List of artificial objects on Mars
The following table is a partial list of artificial objects on the surface of Mars, consisting of spacecraft which were launched from Earth.
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List of missions to Mars
There are a number of derelict orbiters around Mars whose location is not known precisely; there is a proposal to search for small moons, dust rings, and old orbiters with the Optical Navigation Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Logica
Logica was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Mars atmospheric entry
Mars atmospheric entry is the entry into the atmosphere of Mars.
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Mars Express
Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic spacecraft developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996.
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Mars landing
A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.
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Martin-Baker
Martin-Baker Aircraft Co.
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Mass spectrometry
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that ionizes chemical species and sorts the ions based on their mass-to-charge ratio.
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Mössbauer spectroscopy
Mössbauer spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique based on the Mössbauer effect.
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McLaren Applied Technologies
McLaren Applied Technologies is a British technology company that works in conjunction with companies such as GSK, NHS and more.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Micrometre
The micrometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is an SI derived unit of length equaling (SI standard prefix "micro-".
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Microscope
A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.
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Mineralogy
Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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National Space Centre
The National Space Centre is a museum and educational resource covering the fields of space science and astronomy, along with a space research programme in partnership with the University of Leicester.
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National Space Science Data Center
The National Space Science Data Center serves as the permanent archive for NASA space science mission data.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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Open University
The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.
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Oxidation state
The oxidation state, sometimes referred to as oxidation number, describes degree of oxidation (loss of electrons) of an atom in a chemical compound.
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Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift).
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Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
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Schiaparelli EDM lander
Schiaparelli EDM lander was the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) of the ExoMars programme—a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
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Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
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SCISYS
SCISYS PLC is a pan-European computer software and services company based in the United Kingdom and Germany.
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Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are regions of Earth of long-term subsidence creating accommodation space for infilling by sediments.
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Select committee (United Kingdom)
In British politics, parliamentary select committees can be appointed from the House of Commons, like the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, from the House of Lords, like the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, or as a "Joint Committee" drawn from both, such as the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
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Solar panel
Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.
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Soyuz-FG
The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle is an improved version of the Soyuz-U from the R-7 family of rockets, designed and constructed by TsSKB-Progress in Samara.
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Space.com
Space.com is a space and astronomy news website.
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Spirit (rover)
Spirit, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Transformers (film)
Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on the toy line of the same name created by Hasbro.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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University of Leicester
The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.
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Viking lander biological experiments
The two Viking landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars in 1976.
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Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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X-ray spectroscopy
X-ray spectroscopy is a gathering name for several spectroscopic techniques for characterization of materials by using x-ray excitation.
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2001 Mars Odyssey
2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2