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Watch NASA Build Its Next Mars Rover
A newly installed webcam offers the public a live, bird's-eye view of NASA's Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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Massive Mars crater could have hosted life
Physicist Brian Cox says the Red Planet Mars, which looks like a rocky desert now, might have once been a true paradise with waterfall cascades and rivers, offering conditions that made life possible.
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InSight’s Team Tries New Strategy to Help the Mole
Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars.
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‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars
A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology.
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The radiation showstopper for Mars exploration
An astronaut on a mission to Mars could receive radiation doses up to 700 times higher than on our planet - a major showstopper for the safe exploration of our Solar System.
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Mars on Earth – what next?
A Mars Sample Return campaign would bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth for examination in the best terrestrial laboratories - but choosing the…
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NASA’s Mars 2020 gets HD eyes
One of the first operations the Mars 2020 rover will perform after touching down on the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on Feb.
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A European mission control for the Martian rover
The ExoMars rover has a brand new control centre in one of Europe's largest Mars yards.
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Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it.
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the "clay-bearing unit," is well deserving of its name.
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NASA photo showcases landing site for Mars 2020
A new photo captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shared online this week features the landing site for the space agency's Mars 2020 mission.
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Europe to Mars and back
Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning a sample from the Red Planet.
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Getting ready for Mars – on the Space Station
From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission Drops in on Death Valley
On a test flight in Death Valley, California, anAirbus helicopter carried an engineering model of the Lander Vision System (LVS) that will help guide NASA's next Mars mission to a safe touchdown on the Red Planet.
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On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling up sand dunes, carving out rocky escarpments or filling impact craters has eluded scientists until now.
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Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions
Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover, a new study finds.