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Freaky finding: NASA's Curiosity rover has found something on Mars that shouldn’t have existed there!
Scientists say this Martian discovery by Curiosity is akin to finding an oasis in the desert—it sho…
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ISRO announces plans to make India the third country to reach Mars, draws inspiration from NASA’s probes
ISRO is all set for the historic Mangalyaan-2 mission where the space agency will land a rover and …
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Another point for life on Mars: Signs of liquid water discovered under the planet's surface
NASA's InSight lander measured Marsquakes, and now its data is hinting there's a reservoir of liqui…
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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A device on NASA's Perseverance rover generated enough oxygen on Mars for a small dog to breathe for 10 hours. Astronauts could be next.
Scientists hope to use the pilot technology to build out a more robust system that would produce en…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McG…
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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA thinks it solved the mystery of the Perseverance rover's missing rock sample, but now it has to drive away and try again
Perseverance drilled into Mars rock for the first time - only to find that the sample it cored had …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA can't find the Mars rock sample that the Perseverance rover drilled - it mysteriously disappeared
Last week, Perseverance was finally ready to collect the first sample in its search for ancient Mar…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A mysterious hole on Mars could be a jackpot of scientific discoveries, from extraterrestrial life to where astronauts could live
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a hole on Mars in 2022 that recently resurfaced, reigniti…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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NASA's Mars helicopter survived its first night alone on the red planet after the Perseverance rover set it free
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has separated from the Perseverance rover on Mars. It's almost ready to…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA mission control live as the Perseverance rover attempts to land on Mars on Thursday
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to record video and audio as it plunges through the pla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover is preparing to drop a helicopter from its belly and watch it fly on Mars
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is set to lift off from the Martian surface in April. It will be a "Wri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA reveal the first video footage of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars
The footage could reveal the rover's entire descent and landing: a parachute deploy, jetpack maneuv…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Now on 'Mars time,' NASA's Perseverance team has to shift their work hours 40 minutes later every day
NASA asks the engineers and scientists behind the rover to make this daily change for three months,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover has beamed back the first-ever photo of a Mars landing
NASA also has the rover's first color photos of the Martian surface, and an image from a spacecraft…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover already beamed back its first photos from the surface of Mars
Before the dust of the landing had even cleared, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped two photos …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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NASA's Perseverance rover captured images of its own litter, and it shows how Mars is becoming a junkyard
The Perseverance team took pictures of a thermal blanket used during its landing. Space junk is a g…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's Mars rover landed in the perfect place to hunt for alien fossils: an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater
Perseverance will scour mud and clay in Jezero's river delta and shorelines for signs of microbe co…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars mission - involving an orbiter, lander, and rover - just reached the red planet
China is the sixth nation ever to reach Mars. It could soon become the third to successfully land a…