When the agency’s newest rover mission searches for fossilized microscopic life on the Red Planet, how will scientists know whether they’ve found it?
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Why NASA Is Trying To Crash Land on Mars
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Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact. Read More
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Video of Record Flight
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Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent fight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes Selfie With ‘Mont Mercou’
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The rover also snapped a pair of panoramas to create a 3D view of the stark cliff face featured...
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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’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...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
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The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in...
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NASA Explores a Winter Wonderland on Mars
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Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet’s coldest season. Read More
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NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023
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MOXIE, the oxygen-generating experiment aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, is among the technologies honored by the magazine....
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