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Watch NASA launch Perseverance, the space agency's alien-hunting car-size Mars rover, to the red planet
On Thursday at 7:50 a.m. ET, NASA launched its fifth Mars rover, Perseverance, aboard an Atlas V ro…
Susie Neilson
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The Very First Pictures Of Mars At Night
"The purpose of acquiring observations under ultraviolet illumination was to look for fluorescent m…
Jennifer Welsh
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The Mars Rover Came To Dinner Last Night
I gather that because a replica of the Mars Rover was parked in the lobby of the museum during the …
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NASA is launching its $2.4 billion Perseverance Mars rover on Thursday. The nuclear-powered robot will test technologies astronauts need on the red planet.
The nuclear-powered rover will roam Mars' Jezero Crater, where some of the planet's oldest rock is …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will fire a laser from its 7-foot robotic arm to cut its first sample of Martian rock
NASA's Mars rover will cut a sample of Martian rock and send it back to Earth. The mission will hel…
Kate Duffy
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NASA's Perseverance rover beamed back striking images of Mars after 2 weeks cut off from Earth
NASA's Perseverance rover was out of touch for two weeks during the "solar conjunction," during whi…
Marianne Guenot
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China's Mars rover has beamed back its first images of the red planet
China landed its Zhurong rover on Mars Saturday. After taking photos, the rover will start scanning…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bot': NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is snapping remarkable new selfies
NASA's Perseverance rover is using its robotic arm to take selfies on Mars. It captured its body in…
Aria Bendix
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Listen to the snap, crackle, pop of NASA's Perseverance rover zapping rocks on Mars with a laser
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars last month. Microphones on board have recorded sounds of t…
Aylin Woodward
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TOUCHDOWN ON MARS: NASA's Perseverance rover has landed safely after a supersonic plunge
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has landed in Jezero Crater, beginning a new era of exploration on t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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For the first time, we have an audio recording from the surface of Mars - take a listen
Microphones on NASA's Perseverance rover have recorded audio from Mars' Jezero Crater. You can hear…
Aylin Woodward
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Watch live as NASA engineers build an alien-hunting, nuclear-powered Mars rover that's slated to launch next year
The RTG is the part of the rover that generates energy. The device will be fueled by a rare, human-…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's next Mars rover will launch in 2020, and it's being built before our eyes - here's what the robot's birth has looked like
Upon completion, Mars 2020 will be 10 feet long, weigh 2,314 pounds, and run on nuclear power. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the first-ever video of a Mars landing from NASA's Perseverance rover
Cameras captured Perseverance's descent and landing, including the moments a 70-foot parachute depl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover recorded the screechy sounds of its own driving on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars last month. Microphones on board have recorded sounds of t…
Aylin Woodward
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Software Bug Stalls The Curiosity Rover
This is the second software hiccup in Curiosity's seven months on Mars. In late February, Curiosity…