(Phys.org) —Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004. Bekah Sosland, 14 at the time, learned about a NASA rover landing on Mars when the bouncing-ball video on the next morning's ...
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2014
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A week after launching a new orbiter to investigate the upper atmosphere of Mars, NASA is sending a sounding rocket to probe the atmosphere of Venus.
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2013
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NASA's newest robotic explorer, Maven, rocketed toward Mars on Monday on a quest to unravel the ancient mystery of the red planet's radical climate change.
Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2013
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NASA's newest Martian explorer is on its launch pad in Florida, ready to soar.
Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2013
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(AP)—NASA hopes its newest Mars spacecraft lives up to its know-it-all name.
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2013
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Billions of years ago when the planets of our solar system were still young, Mars was a very different world. Liquid water flowed in long rivers that emptied into lakes and shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2013
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NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the U.K. and the Netherlands has found evidence of carbonation in a meteorite that was found in the U.S. back in 1931—prior research has proven that the meteorite is actually a rock ...
Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth—a.k.a. Martian meteorites—really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere ...
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2013
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At first glance, Mars' clouds might easily be mistaken for those on Earth: Images of the Martian sky, taken by NASA's Opportunity rover, depict gauzy, high-altitude wisps, similar to our cirrus clouds. Given what scientists ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2013
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