Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples
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The Red Planet rover snapped a portrait of the sample depot it has assembled with 10 backup...
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InSight Is Meeting the Challenge of Winter on Dusty Mars
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As dust collects on the solar panels and winter comes to Elysium Planitia, the team is following a plan...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
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The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in...
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NASA InSight Study Finds Mars Is Spinning Faster
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Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast...
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Flight 45 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 45 Flight date: No earlier than 02/22/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 1,614.38 feet (492.063 meters) Flight time:...
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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 InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars
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The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. Read More
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NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission
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The news briefing will present the architecture proposal that is expected to be finalized in September 2022. Read More
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