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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3,000th Day on Mars
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Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA’s Perseverance Work on Mars
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Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one...
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Tricky Terrain: Helping to Assure a Safe Rover Landing
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NASA’s Perseverance Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites
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The six-wheeled explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
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The rocks it has analyzed for sample collection are helping the team better understand a past marked by volcanic...
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NASA’s InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science
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The mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out...
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NASA Begins Testing Robotics to Bring First Samples Back From Mars
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Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out...
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7 Things to Know About the NASA Rover About to Land on Mars
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