The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and is yielding promising samples for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign.
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Patches of Rock Record Erased, Revealing Clues
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A new paper enriches scientists’ understanding of where the rock record preserved or destroyed evidence of Mars’ past and...
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NASA’s MAVEN Observes Martian Light Show Caused by Major Solar Storm
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For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA’s MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet...
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Flight 44 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 44 Flight date: No earlier than Feb. 19 Horizontal flight distance: 1066 feet (325 meters) Flight...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
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Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so...
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Flight 54 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight 54 Expected Flight date: 08/03/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 0 (pop-up flight) Flight time: 24.62 seconds Flight altitude:...
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Perseverance’s Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science
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NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake....
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NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday
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A livestream will begin at 3:15 a.m. PDT that morning as the helicopter team prepares to receive the data...
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Seeing NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D
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A new video of the helicopter’s third flight gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and...
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