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China’s Mars orbiter captures series of selfies using remote camera
The China National Space Administration released photos on New Year's Day, of its Mars orbiter circling high above the Red Plant.
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Fluvial Mapping of Mars
It took fifteen years of imaging and nearly three years of stitching the pieces together to create the largest image ever made, the 8-trillion-pixel mosaic of Mars' surface.
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A Martian Roundtrip: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes
Marvels of engineering, the rover's sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition.
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NASA video shows Perseverance rover’s planned ‘terror’ landing on Mars
NASA has shown what it will look like when its Perseverance rover touches down on Mars, a challenging sequence that the agency describes as "7 minutes of…
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How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again
There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched.
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NASA moves forward with campaign to return Mars samples to Earth
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are moving to the next phase in a campaign to deepen understanding of whether life ever existed on Mars and, in turn, better understand the origins of life on Earth.
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Three things we’ve learned from NASA’s Mars InSight
NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down Nov. 26, 2018, on Mars to study the planet's deep interior.
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Study of dune dynamics will help scientists understand the topography of Mars
Barchans are crescent-shaped sand dunes whose two horns face in the direction of the fluid flow.
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China’s Mars probe 100m km from Earth
China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had been 100 million kilometers far from the Earth as of Monday evening, and had traveled nearly 360 million km by that time, according to the China National Space Administration.
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Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars
Thinking like Earthlings may have caused scientists to overlook the electrochemical effects of Martian dust storms.
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Ice-Rich flow features in Martian southern hemisphere reveal effects of recent climate cycles
A large, previously unrecognized reservoir of water ice on Mars is well preserved and formed within the past few million years, says a paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Daniel C.
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From NASA JPL’s Mailroom to Mars and Beyond
Allen was just 17 years old when he first set foot on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the mailroom in the summer of 1981. Voyager had recently encountered Saturn, and the Lab was crawling with members of the media.
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Water on Mars not as widespread as previously thought, study finds
Water on Mars, in the form of brines, may not be as widespread as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences.
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Five hidden gems are riding aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover
More than halfway to the Red Planet, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover isn't just shuttling sophisticated science instruments and tubes to be filled with Earth-bound rock samples.
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Biomining study could unlock future settlements on other worlds
Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of "biomining" will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they need to build a long-term presence beyond Earth.
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Best region for life on Mars was far below surface
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.