NASA has tested new technology designed to bring spacecraft—and one day even astronauts—safely down to Mars, with the agency declaring the experiment a qualified success even though a giant parachute got tangled on the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the Curiosity ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2012
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Two NASA and one European spacecraft, including NASA's MAVEN mission led by the University of Colorado Boulder, have gathered new information about the basic properties of a wayward comet that buzzed by Mars Oct. 19, directly ...
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2014
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Why is Mars cold and dry? While some recent studies hint that early Mars may have never been wet or warm, many scientists think that long ago, Mars once had a denser atmosphere that supported liquid water on the surface. ...
Space Exploration
Sep 13, 2012
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Wind erosion has been ruled out as the primary cause of methane gas release on Mars, Newcastle University academics have shown.
Environment
Aug 12, 2019
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NASA's Opportunity rover is silently marking the 15th anniversary of its touchdown on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2019
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A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go?
Space Exploration
Aug 23, 2011
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Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released Monday that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather.
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2017
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(Phys.org) —Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings today at the European ...
Space Exploration
Apr 8, 2013
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A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2021
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