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Curiosity sends a picture postcard from Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp.
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ASU team celebrates 20th anniversary of NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter arrival at the Red Planet
This year, NASA is observing the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet; and a mission that has helped locate water ice, find landing sites and study Mars' mysterious moons.
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Rocky roads through Lanzarote
Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars.
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 16th flight
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 16th flight over the weekend, the space agency announced Monday.
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NASA’s Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars Helicopter
Video footage from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 13th flight on Sept.
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Ingenuity makes short hop to the north for Flight 16
With Flight 15, Ingenuity began the journey back towards "Wright Brothers Field" at "Octavia E.
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Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests.
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Curiosity continues to dine on Zechstein drill fines
The SAM and CheMin instrument teams decided that they did not require further analyses of the "Zechstein" drill sample.
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Twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover begins terrain tests
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, begins a series of rigorous tests to assess the risk of potential driving hazards on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale
We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of their weekend EGA analysis on the drilled sample.
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Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface.
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Mars – or Arrakis
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well over 50 million kilometers away from the nearest tow company, getting your wheels stuck in sand can be a mission-critical problem.
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Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science
When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in Curiosity's ongoing drill campaign at Zechstein.
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Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes
A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to learn how to best explore the Moon and Mars during ESA's Pangaea geological training course.
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Docking the Perseverance robotic arm
Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its robotic arm, the coring drill, and the Adaptive Caching Assembly.
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Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!"