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NASA’s Perseverance Rover 22 days from Mars landing
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars.
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Purdue scientist ready for Mars rover touchdown
The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio signal confirming the rover has landed will seem like an eternity for scientists and researchers back on Earth.
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Six things to know about NASA’s Mars helicopter on its way to Mars
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet.
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New Mars rover may collect first sounds recorded on another planet
When three new Mars missions reach the Red Planet in February, recording the first sounds from another planet is to be among the scientific milestones.
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Crater study offers window on temperatures 3.5 billion years ago
Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland.
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Mystery of Martian glaciers revealed
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a groundbreaking new analysis of the mysterious glaciers of Mars.
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Analyzing different solid states of water on other planets and moons
Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature.
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Dust storm grounded Mars helicopter, but it’s ready to fly again
One of the Red Planet's famous dust storms has kept the Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for two weeks, but the aircraft is scheduled for its 19th flight as early as Sunday, according to NASA.
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With $3M NASA Grant, UArizona scientists will test Mars exploration drones in Iceland
A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars exploration concept.
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Making methane on Mars
Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to fly back to Earth?
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InSight ‘Mole’ payload ends operations on Mars
The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission.
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Curiosity Rover reaches its 3,000th day on Mars
It's been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug.
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Frosty scenes in martian summer
The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured remnant frost deposits in a region near Sisyphi Tholus, in the high southern latitudes of Mars…
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Seven things to know about the NASA rover about to land on Mars
With only about 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) left to go in its 293-million-mile (471-million-kilometer) journey, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is nearing its new planetary home.
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China Focus: 400 mln km within 163 days, China’s Mars probe heads for red planet
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 400 million km by Sunday morning and is expected to enter Mars orbit next month, according to the…
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Tianwen 1 robotic probe to enter Mars orbit in Feb
China's Tianwen 1 robotic Mars probe had traveled more than 400 million kilometers by Sunday morning and is set to enter a Mars orbit next month, according to the China National Space Administration.