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Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars
The heaviest vehicle to successfully land on Mars is the Curiosity Rover at 1 metric ton, about 2,200 pounds.
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More than 835 recovery commands have been sent to Opportunity
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site is estimated to be somewhere in the range of 0.9 to 1.3.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Departs Vera Rubin Ridge
After exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge for more than a year, NASA's Curiosity rover (https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl) recently moved on.
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ESA’s Mars rover has a name – Rosalind Franklin
The ExoMars rover that will search for the building blocks of life on the Red Planet has a name: Rosalind Franklin.
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Beyond Mars, the Mini MarCO Spacecraft Fall Silent
Before the pair of briefcase-sized spacecraft known collectively as MarCO launched last year, their success was measured by survival: If they were able to operate in deep space at all, they would be pushing the limits of experimental technology.
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InSight’s Seismometer Now Has a Cozy Shelter on Mars
For the past several weeks, NASA's InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec.
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What Can Curiosity Tell Us About How a Martian Mountain Formed
The density of rock layers on the terrain that climbs from the base of Mars' Gale Crater to Mount Sharp is less dense than expected, according to the…
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Research Uses Curiosity Rover to Measure Gravity on Mars
Apollo 17 astronauts drove a moon buggy across the lunar surface in 1972, measuring subtle changes in gravitational pull with an instrument called a gravimeter.
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Mars Rover Curiosity Makes Gravity-Measuring Traverse
A clever use of non-science engineering data from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has let a team of researchers, including an Arizona State University graduate student, measure the density of rock layers in 96-mile-wide Gale Crater.
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Curiosity Says Farewell to Mars’ Vera Rubin Ridge
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp.
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NASA’s Opportunity Rover Logs 15 Years on Mars
NASA's Opportunity rover begins its 16th year on the surface of Mars today.
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Dust storm activity appears to pick up south of Opportunity
Dust storm activity appears to have picked up again, with a regional storm tracking south about 124 miles (200 kilometers) to the west of Opportunity.
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ExoMars software passes ESA Mars Yard driving test
Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.
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Team selected by Canadian Space Agency to study Mars minerals
In the coming years, new rovers will explore Mars with better scientific instruments, as capable as those that exist in labs here on Earth today.
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UK tests self driving robots for Mars
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
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ExoMars mission has good odds of finding life on Mars if life exists.
As Dr Dartnell pointed out, at this point it is unclear whether life actually exists on Mars; and if it does exist, it remains to be seen how similar this life may be to that on Earth.