Faces of the solar system
"Look, it has a tiny face on it!"
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New website gathering public input on NASA Mars images
Science-team members for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are soliciting help from the public to analyze exotic features near the south pole of Mars.
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Image: July 7, 2003, NASA's Opportunity rover launches to Mars
On July 7, 2003, NASA launched its second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, aboard a Delta II launch vehicle. Opportunity's dash to Mars began with liftoff at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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Opportunity's 7th Mars winter to include new study area
Operators of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity plan to drive the rover into a valley this month where Opportunity will be active through the long-lived rover's seventh Martian winter, examining outcrops that contain ...
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Jul 7, 2015
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover studies rock-layer contact zone
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is examining a valley where at least two types of bedrock meet, for clues about changes in ancient environmental conditions recorded by the rock.
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Jul 2, 2015
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Image: Light toned deposit in the Aureum Chaos region on Mars
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a light-toned deposit in Aureum Chaos, a 368 kilometer (229 mile) wide area in the eastern ...
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Jul 2, 2015
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Mars crater wetter than thought, had water tracks in the last million years
Mars is thought to have had a watery past, but when exactly it transitioned to its dry and dusty present is up for debate. Now, though, a team of scientists studying the marks on a young Martian crater has found signs that ...
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Jun 24, 2015
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Mars camera makes 60,000 orbits of Red Planet
Next week, a visual and infrared camera designed at Arizona State University will pass 60,000 orbits of the Red Planet.
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NASA prepares for first interplanetary CubeSats on agency's next mission to Mars
When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars – a stationary lander in 2016 – the flight will include two CubeSats. This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space. If this flyby demonstration ...
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Martian glass: Window into possible past life?
Researchers from Brown University have used satellite data to detect deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, the glasses just might provide a delicate window ...
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