For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA’s MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. 27.
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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Inventory of Key Life Ingredient on Mars
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Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks. Read More
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NASA Selects Developer for Rocket to Retrieve First Samples From Mars
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The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars’ Surface
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The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for...
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
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Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of...
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Flight 36 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight number: 36 Date of flight: NET Dec. 10 Flight duration: 60.82 seconds Horizontal flight distance: 361 feet (110...
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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 Captures Shining Clouds on Mars
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The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about...
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NASA’s InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars
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The magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 temblors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this...