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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars

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  • Post published:January 23, 2022
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The type of carbon is associated with biological processes on Earth. Curiosity scientists offer several explanations for the unusual carbon signals. After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface…

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How the Tonga eruption is helping space scientists understand Mars

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  • Post published:January 21, 2022
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NASA scientists say that the eruption of a submarine volcano in Tonga is helping them to understand how features formed on the surfaces of Mars and Venus. The unusual explosion…

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China’s Mars rover has amassed reams of novel geological data

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  • Post published:November 30, 2021
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More than 30 scientists across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau are rushing to process data collected by China’s Mars rover, Zhurong, and by the nation’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which is…

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Read more about the article The Curiosity Rover May Have Discovered What Wiped Away Ancient Signs of Life on Mars

The Curiosity Rover May Have Discovered What Wiped Away Ancient Signs of Life on Mars

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  • Post published:July 18, 2021
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Evidence of ancient life may have been scrubbed from parts of Mars, a new NASA study has found. The space agency's Curiosity rover made the surprising discovery while investigating clay-rich…

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Flight 9 Was a Nail-Biter, but Ingenuity Came Through With Flying Colors

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  • Post published:July 10, 2021
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t has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred…

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Curiosity’s skycrane maneuver

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  • Post published:February 27, 2021
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CURIOSITY'S SKYCRANE MANEUVER In this artist's concept, Curiosity is in the final moments of its descent toward Mars, and is being lowered from the descent stage to the surface on three…

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Mars’ Twin Peaks – Super-Resolution Image From Mars Pathfinder

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  • Post published:September 8, 2020
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NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. It’s tiny rover, named Sojourner after abolitionist Sojourner Truth, spent 83 days of a planned seven-day mission exploring the…

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Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory    The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared…

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Mars 2020 opposition

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2020_Mars In October 2020 Mars will be roughly the closest it gets to Earth. This close approach is call an "opposition" and means that the Earth and Mars are on…

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China’s successful launch of Mars mission seals global era in deep-space exploration

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  • Post published:July 23, 2020
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China’s successful launch of Mars mission seals global era in deep-space exploration   Tianwen-1 is the second of three spacecraft set to take off this month for the red planet.…

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You can help a Mars Rover’s AI learn to tell rocks from dirt – TechCrunch

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  • Post published:June 22, 2020
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  You can help a Mars Rover’s AI learn to tell rocks from dirt – TechCrunch   Curiosity doesn’t navigate on its own; there’s a whole team of people on…

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Read more about the article Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins

Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins

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Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in Northern Arizona University's Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, just processed new…

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Did Mars Once Have a Ring?

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We Just Got Even More Evidence Mars Once Had a Ring   Mars - glorious, dusty, complex Mars - may once have been even more dazzling. New research provides even…

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Read more about the article Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life

Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life

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  Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life   New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater – the destination of NASA’s Perseverance…

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