NASA's InSight lander is due to set its first science instrument on Mars in the coming days. But engineers here on Earth already saw it happen—last week.
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Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA's InSight spacecraft sent back a "nice and dirty" snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists.
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Nov 27, 2018
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At just before 9pm Central European Time on 26 November, Mars will receive a new visitor: NASA's InSight lander.
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Nov 26, 2018
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Ground-penetrating radar has already helped scientists discover liquid water under Mars' surface. It might also be the key to discovering if life exists on our cosmic neighbour.
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Nov 26, 2018
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NASA has picked an ancient river delta as the landing site for its uncrewed Mars 2020 rover, to hunt for evidence of past life on Earth's neighboring planet, officials said Monday.
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Nov 19, 2018
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Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits ...
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Nov 12, 2018
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Modern-day Mars may be more hospitable to oxygen-breathing life than previously thought.
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Oct 22, 2018
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a detailed diagnosis of a technical ...
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Oct 4, 2018
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The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping.
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Sep 29, 2018
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NASA technology designed to protect spacecraft from heat and pressure when entering a planet's atmosphere will be launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico as part of testing.
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Sep 7, 2018
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