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The Launch Is Approaching for NASA’s Next Mars Rover, Perseverance
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date.
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Airbus wins next study contract for Martian Sample Fetch Rover
Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples from the surface of Mars.
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NASA’s new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm life
NASA's new microbe-hunting Mars rover, scheduled for launch July 20, is the most sophisticated rover yet, but it will take at least a decade to determine whether samples the machine collects exhibit signs of life, agency officials said Wednesday.
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Martian rover motors ahead
European engineers, together with Canada, are working on the technologies needed to find and retrieve samples from Mars, as part of ESA's plans to send material from the Red Planet to Earth.
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Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
How's the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds.
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ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars' atmosphere - the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
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NASA’s Mars Rover Drivers Need Your Help
You may be able to help NASA's Curiosity rover drivers better navigate Mars.
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Three new views of Mars’ moon Phobos
Three new views of the Martian moon Phobos have been captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter.
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First Arab mission to Mars designed to inspire youth
The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday.
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Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins
Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in NAU's Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, just processed new images of the Martian moon Phobos that give scientists insight into the physical properties of the moon and its composition.
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China to carry out its first mission to Mars this summer
China has set a goal to become a major space power as a means of catching up with Russia and the United States, pursuing ambitions to launch missions to the red planet and the Moon.
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Martian moon orbit hints at ancient ring
Scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University have found that the only way to produce Deimos's unusually tilted orbit is for Mars to have had a ring billions of years ago.
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Perseverance Mars Rover’s extraordinary sample-gathering system
Two astronauts collected Moon rocks on Apollo 11. It will take three robotic systems working together to gather up the first Mars rock samples for return to Earth.
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The detective aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb.
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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospheric loss
Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
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Air deliveries bring NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover closer to launch
Progress continues to speed along as NASA's Perseverance rover readies for its launch this summer.