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Mars Rover Discovers Lost Spacecraft Wreckage After Skycrane's Fiery Crash Landing
The Mars Perseverance Rover has made an unexpected discovery, capturing stunning images of the wreckage from its own descent vehicle, the Skycrane. This groundbreaking find unveils a hidden chapter in ...
Mars Rover's Camera Hit With Charged Particles From Solar Storm
The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged particles from a solar storm," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL ...
Mars rover captures first close-up images of ridges that hint at planet's watery past in "really surprising" discovery
The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.
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Firouz Naderi, NASA official who put rovers on Mars, dies at 77
Firouz Naderi, a NASA official who oversaw the successful landing of two exploration rovers on Mars, a feat that vastly expanded human understanding of the Red Planet and made him a hero to fellow ...
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?
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Pete Theisinger, who led Mars rover missions for JPL, dies at 78
Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78 ...
Another beautiful day on Mars: NASA’s curiosity takes a leisurely winter stroll, one sol at a time
Mastcam captured colourful images of a trough and a nearby displaced block nicknamed “Ouro.” Scientists suspect it could be ...
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Mars rovers make separate finds: Did the Red planet host life?
Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet.
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Can we save Mars robots from death by dust? | Space
NASA's Mars InSight lander died a slow death by dust last week. For months and months, the robot, built to study the tectonic activity on the Red Planet, has been running on less and less power as ...
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NASA’s Mars rover reveals what it’s grateful for this Thanksgiving
It’s not just people who are sharing what they’re grateful for during Thanksgiving today — Mars rovers are, too. In a post on X, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012 ...
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Curiosity rover finds key ingredient for past life on Mars
A photomosaic taken by the Curiosity Rover on April 30, 2023 at the Ubajara drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples drilled here contained substantial amounts of siderite (an iron ...
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NASA InSight Mars Mission Is Dead After 4 Years Listening for ...
As InSight comes to an end, one of the other active NASA spacecraft on the surface of Mars, the Perseverance rover, is setting the stage for a future mission.