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Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, opening the door to bringing astronauts safely home one day
A rock on Mars nicknamed Cheyava Falls is speckled with 'leopard spots' — tiny rings of iron and phosphate that, on Earth, only form where microbes once lived, making it the strongest candidate for ancient life scientists have ever drilled
How does a city-state with no large rivers or natural aquifers now meet up to 40 percent of its water demand with recycled sewage?
How did a captured German rocket, fired straight up from a New Mexico desert range in 1946, return the first photograph ever taken of Earth from beyond the atmosphere on 35mm film?
