International Business News - MARS http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif NASA on Monday declared an end to the Phoenix mission, some five months after the spacecraft became the first to land in Mars' arctic plains and taste water on another planet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172824-phoenix-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/nasa-phoenix-mars-mission-has-ended.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/nasa-phoenix-mars-mission-has-ended.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:50:48 EST Mars Inc. has closed a $23 billion deal to purchase chewing-gum giant Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the companies said Monday, making the combined business the world's largest candy maker. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146430-mars-wrigley.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/mars-wrigley-close-23-billion-deal-create-giant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/mars-wrigley-close-23-billion-deal-create-giant.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:53:47 EDT NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time, scientists reported Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/mars-lander-finds-minerals-suggesting-past-water.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:51:40 EDT The fastest-growing premium chocolate brand in the United States has more room to grow. Mars Inc., the maker of Dove chocolate, on Monday unveiled its expanded facility in this south-central Pennsylvania town, just a short distance from its main U.S. competitor, Hershey. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/mars-unveils-new-facility-to-meet-demand-for-dove.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:49:07 EDT Shareholders of chewing-gum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. approved the company's $23 billion sale to Mars Inc., paving the way for the formation of the world's largest candy maker. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/a-closer-look-at-candymakers-mars-and-wrigley.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:09:44 EDT Shareholders of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. have approved the company's $23 billion sale to Mars Inc., a move that will end more than a century of family control as the chewing-gum company becomes part of what will now be the world's largest candy maker. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138616-mars-wrigley.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/wrigley-shareholders-approve-23b-sale-to-mars.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/wrigley-shareholders-approve-23b-sale-to-mars.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:31:52 EDT NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again. The three-legged spacecraft has been digging trenches near the Martian north pole since landing on May 25 and its work was supposed to end this month. Phoenix is studying whether the site could have been favorable for microbial life to emerge. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/nasa-extends-mars-lander-mission-again.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:59:45 EDT NASA chose a University of Colorado proposal for a $485 million Mars mission on Monday after a nine-month delay caused by a conflict of interest in the selection process. The delay cost the space agency time, money and science. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/nasa-awards-485m-mars-project-delayed-by-conflict.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:32:58 EDT Six Flags Inc. said Wednesday it expanded an existing sponsorship deal with Mars Snackfood US that gives the confectioner's prepackaged candy exclusive marketing rights for in-market promotion and in-park advertising. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/six-flags-expands-deal-with-mars-snackfood-us.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:54:55 EDT Traces of a rocket fuel ingredient found in the Martian soil would not necessarily hinder potential life, mission scientists said Tuesday. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft earlier this summer detected the chemical perchlorate, a highly oxidizing salt, in soil samples dug up from near the Martian surface. On Earth, it can be found naturally in the arid Atacama Desert in Chile where some extreme organisms use it as a source of energy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/scientists-salt-in-mars-soil-not-bad-for-life.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:33:21 EDT NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected the presence of a chemically reactive salt in the Martian soil, a finding that if confirmed could make it less friendly to potential life than once believed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/scientists-martian-soil-may-be-harsh-to-life.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:40:01 EDT Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/100565-mars-monkey.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/monkey-from-mars-a-ga-crime-labs-museum-oddity.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/monkey-from-mars-a-ga-crime-labs-museum-oddity.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:26:13 EDT Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/100376-mars-monkey.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/monkey-from-mars-a-ga-crime-labs-museum-oddity.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/monkey-from-mars-a-ga-crime-labs-museum-oddity.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:00:25 EDT A sample of icy soil collected by the robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is apparently stuck in its scoop, foiling efforts to analyze it. The arm picked up 3 cubic centimeters of material Friday night and lifted it over an oven designed to heat samples for analysis, mission officials said Saturday. The arm tilted its scoop, ran a tool motor to try to sprinkle the sample into the oven, and finally inverted the scoop directly over the oven's open doors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/mars-lander-has-trouble-getting-sample-in-oven.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:12:21 EDT Will the Mars lander's next baking test of soil and ice be its last? Scientists worry that it could be, thanks to an electrical glitch that threatens the $420 million quest to find the chemical ingredients for life near the Martian north pole. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89766-phoenix-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/mars-bake-test-hastened-after-oven-short-circuit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/mars-bake-test-hastened-after-oven-short-circuit.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:52:12 EDT The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last. Engineers said a short circuit that occurred last month in one of its test ovens designed to shake and bake miniscule soil samples could happen again when the instrument is turned on. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/mars-landers-next-bake-test-could-be-its-last.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:27:09 EDT The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last. Engineers said a short circuit that occurred last month in one of its test ovens designed to shake and bake miniscule soil samples could happen again when the instrument is turned on. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/mars-landers-next-bake-test-could-be-its-last.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:56:02 EDT The Phoenix lander's first taste test of soil near Mars' north pole reveals a briny environment similar to what can be found in backyards on Earth, scientists said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/80288-phoenix-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/mars-lander-finds-salty-environment-in-taste-test.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080626/mars-lander-finds-salty-environment-in-taste-test.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:21:28 EDT Why is Mars two-faced? Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any heavenly body in the solar system. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/79248-two-faced-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/scientists-think-big-impact-caused-two-faced-mars.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/scientists-think-big-impact-caused-two-faced-mars.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:08:34 EDT Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the Pacific. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77143-phoenix-mars.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/can-the-martian-arctic-support-extreme-life.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/can-the-martian-arctic-support-extreme-life.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:25:18 EDT