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The Newest NASA Mars Mission Is Already Unraveling The Mystery Of Mars' Missing Atmosphere
The spacecraft also captured a map of the abundance of ozone across the planet. On Earth, ozone is …
Jessica Orwig
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This Is The Biggest Problem Facing Elon Musk's Dream Of Building A City On Mars
As Mars warms, its frozen soil would thaw enough to release carbon dioxide, and more carbon in the …
Ajai Raj
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Curiosity Rover Witnessed Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars - A Tantalizing Clue That It Could Hold Life
In the past, instruments like the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft have measured eve…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists just found hard evidence of what probably killed Mars
Hydrogen was swept away at a similar rate to oxygen's loss. That piece evidence supports the idea t…
Kelly Dickerson
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The Spacecraft That Will Answer The Biggest Mars Mystery Launches Today
More than four billion years ago, scientists think that Mars has a thick atmosphere and was warm en…
Dina Spector
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NASA is about to announce 'key findings' on Mars - here's how to watch live
How thick the atmosphere used to be and how Mars lost most of it is still an ongoing subject of res…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA On Mars Spacecraft Entering Orbit: 'We Nailed It'
The spacecraft will spend the next six weeks testing out its instruments before moving into the sci…
Dina Spector
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NASA just revealed how extreme climate change transformed Mars into a lifeless desert
"We can't actually go back in time," Bougher said during a presentation at the University of Michig…
Jessica Orwig
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What The Air On Mars Was Like Four Billion Years Ago
Previous atmospheric measurements from the Viking lander missions in the 1970s were too crude to pr…
Dina Spector
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Elon Musk is now walking back his 'nuke Mars' theory, and instead proposing to launch thousands of satellites to warm the red planet
However, Musk has not fully abandoned the nukes. "Nuke Mars refers to a continuous stream of very l…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
A solar eruption left a void around Mars last year, causing the red planet's atmosphere to balloon …
Erin Snodgrass,Morgan McFall-…
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Scientists have detected oxygen on Mars - and it could reveal something fascinating about the planet's past
SOFIA, which flies between 37,000 and 45,000 feet above sea level, actually measured about half the…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA's Mars lander is just days from reaching the red planet - here's how to watch the InSight landing live
InSight's design, including its heat shield and parachute, are very similar to that of NASA's Phoen…
Peter Kotecki
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Elon Musk wants to live on Mars, but this planetary scientist says that's a terrible idea
Titan, on the other hand, has got this natural shielding device, which is its nice thick atmosphere…
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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Scientists have a plan to make breathable oxygen on Mars for the first time
Ultimately, the idea is that NASA would send both an empty rocket and a larger version of MOXIE to …
Jessica Orwig
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Here's What Mars Looked Like 4 Billion Years Ago
According to Joseph Grebowsky from NASA's Goodard Space Flight Center, the leading theory is that l…