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Mars thigh bone is really just a rock spotted by Curiosity
The Internet says thigh bone; NASA scientists say plain old rock.
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Curiosity’s Brushwork on Martian ‘Bonanza King’ Target
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Dust Removal Tool on its robotic arm to brush aside reddish, more-oxidized dust, revealing a gray patch of…
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Humans to Mars a Principle of Space Exploration
Let's say it straight. Mars is, without any doubt our next step in space exploration, sparking our imagination for many years in spaceflight history.
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Life on Mars? Implications of a newly discovered mineral-rich structure
A new ovoid structure discovered in the Nakhla Martian meteorite is made of nanocrystalline iron-rich clay, contains a variety of minerals, and shows evidence…
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Twin Galileos meet, ready for Thursday’s launch
Final functional testing of Europe's twin Galileo navigation satellites has been completed at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on track for launch this Thursday.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Prepares for Fourth Rock Drilling
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation.
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Tall Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright
A track about one-third of a mile (500 meters) long on Mars shows where an irregularly shaped boulder careened downhill to its current upright position, seen…
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Opportunity Heads to ‘Marathon Valley’
Opportunity is moving south along the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards 'Marathon Valley,' a notch observed from orbit to have an abundant clay mineral signature.
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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover: Two Years and Counting on Red Planet
NASA's most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug.
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Russia To Construct Landing Pad For ExoMars Mission
Russia will create a landing deck and provide a range of unique scientific equipment for a new Russian-European Mars mission known as ExoMars, Daniel Rodionov…
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Robotic Rock Climbers Could Uncover Clues to Mars’ Past
A robot that can scale the faces of steep cliffs might one day help explore Mars and find signs of life.
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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop
As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale Crater.
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Absence of Russia Instrument On NASA Mars Rover Not Political
The absence of a Russian scientific instrument on board NASA's new Mars rover, scheduled for launch in 2020, should not be linked to political reasons…
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NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet.
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Los Alamos Laser Selected for 2020 Mars Mission
NASA has announced that laser technology originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected for its new Mars mission in 2020.
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Mars 2020 rover will carry tools to make oxygen
The suite of space-age tools loaded on NASA's next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon dioxide.