Martian Image: the ridges of 'South Séítah'
NASA's Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area's mysterious past.
NASA's Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area's mysterious past.
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The arrival of three astronauts at China's new space station on Saturday marks a landmark step in its space ambitions, its longest crewed mission to date.
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2021
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Australia has agreed to build a 20-kilogram (44-pound) semi-autonomous lunar rover for NASA to take to the moon as early as 2026 in search of oxygen.
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2021
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NASA, along with the European Space Agency, is developing a campaign to return the Martian samples to Earth.
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Oct 12, 2021
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Since the Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on Mars in February, the rover and its team of scientists back on Earth have been hard at work exploring the floor of the crater that once held an ancient lake. Perseverance ...
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The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars' Jezero crater—which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression—was once a quiet lake, fed steadily by a small river some ...
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Oct 7, 2021
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NASA on Monday announced it would land an ice-seeking rover on a region of the Moon's south pole called the Nobile Crater in 2023.
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Sep 21, 2021
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ESA's Rosalind Franklin twin rover on Earth has drilled down and extracted samples 1.7 meters into the ground—much deeper than any other martian rover has ever attempted.
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Sep 15, 2021
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This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars [10.3°N, 159.5°E] was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
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NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.
Planetary Sciences
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