NASA unveiled a new service today where you could add your name to a list that will be included in the next shuttle to Mars, and two reddit users took advantage of the oppurtunity to make their voices heard.

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1. Send Your Name To Space!

SCIENCE BUZZ: After a five-year long alcohol-induced slumber, NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter awoke yesterday, wondering, “Woah, Universe, where am I?” Hope you slept well, sweet prince. Now just dust off those space rays and get back to work.

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1. Mars Odyssey Orbiter Reboots for First Time in Five Years

SCIENCE BUZZ: NASA, ever coy, officially announced they might have found life on Mars. That, or the planet is geologically active. But probably there is biological life there! Maybe. Sorry David Bowie, you have to keep wondering.

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1. Methane Means Mars “Is Not A Dead Planet”!
2. David Bowie: “Life On Mars”
3. Nasa’s Historic Discovery of Methane Gas On Planet Mars

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Whip out your 3D glasses and take in the topology of the surface of Mars. These 362 new images of Mars from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the Red Planet's surface in unprecedented detail.

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SCIENCE BUZZ: NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has finished its mission and powered down, and science fans will mourn its passing. As fall turns to winter on the Martian surface, the Lander will be buried in carbon dioxide ice as temperatures plummet. Its batteries are dead and the robot, which discovered the first proof of ice on Mars, has stopped transmitting. Farewell, sweet prince.

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1. Phoenix Mars Lander’s Farewell Transmission From Mars
2. Phoenix Mars Lander’s Goodbye Series on Gizmodo
3. MarsPhoenix’s Final Twitter
4. Nasa Holds An Irish Wake for the Mars Phoenix Lander
5. Phoenix Mars Mission - It’s Over

It’s Phoenix as you’ve never seen her before, fully naked and completely see-through! NASA must have released these after a rather rough break-up, because sharing your private collection of Space Porn is most undoubtedly the ultimate revenge act.

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1. Naked Martian Robot
2. NASA Image of the Day

Is this a dust storm on the Martian surface, or mud pots in the Bolivian highlands? Sometimes Earth and Mars aren’t as different as they seem.

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1. A George Steinmetz Photogallery on National Geographic

SCIENCE BUZZ: The NASA Phoenix Mars mission says they’ve found proof of water on the Red Planet. Small white patches that the Phoenix lander discovered when digging into the Martian soil earlier this week have shrunk, and bits of debris in the trench have disappeared, which NASA says could only mean they were ice.

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1. NASA: Disappearing Chunks Must Have Been Ice
2. Watch the Disappearing Ice!
3. Phoenix Twitter: w00t!!! Best day ever!!
4. A Step Towards Discovering Whether Mars Was Habitable
5. It MUST Be Ice

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera orbiting Mars snapped a stunning shot of the Earth and the moon. Depending on your mood, this could either be inspiring or terrifying — ‘tis a mighty small speck we circle on.

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1. Images From the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA’s Mars rover Spirit (from 2005) sent back a nice sunset picture from the Red Planet. It looks like parts of Nevada, only minus the clouds, vegetation, or casino on the horizon.

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1. Official NASA Images
2. Animation of the Pheonix Lander’s Landing
3. Mars Pheonix on BuzzFeed

SCIENCE BUZZ: The NASA Mars explorer has safely landed on the Red Planet’s north pole, where it will search for life. You can follow it on Twitter!

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1. Mars Phoenix’s Twitter Stream
2. Phoenix, The Mission to Mars’ North Polar Region
3. The New Images of Mars Taken by Phoenix
4. A 9-Month, 420-Million-Mile Journey Ends Safely