A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface.
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars
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The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist is staying strong, despite wear and tear from...
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NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report
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The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior...
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored
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The team behind the agency’s history-making rotorcraft soars, picking up high-profile awards alongside a new-and-improved system to assess asteroid...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars
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The type of carbon is associated with biological processes on Earth. Curiosity scientists offer several explanations for the unusual...
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Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards
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The three award recipients – Diana Trujillo, Christina Hernandez, and Clara O’Farrell – are engineers from the NASA rover...
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NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’
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The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system. Read More
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Biggest Moments on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Rover 2021 Year in Review
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A new video looks back on the six-wheeled scientist’s first 10 months on the Red Planet and all that...
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My Favorite Martian Image: ‘Enchanted’ Rocks at Jezero Crater
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Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for....