Mars Gets a Close-Up and a Photo Bomb as Europe’s Hera Mission Swoops Past
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.
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Check Out These Rare Images of Deimos, One of Mars’ Mysterious Moons
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
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ESA Probes Capture ‘Black Spider’ Phenomenon on Mars
European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...
European spacecraft got rare close-up of Mars' lesser-known moon
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
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Could Mars’ red color have formed under wet conditions?
A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...
Why Is Mars Red? Scientists Have A New Theory
With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...
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Scientists may finally know what makes Mars red
The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like ...
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How the Zhurong Mars rover’s special features helped it survive on the Red Planet
The adverse environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire deity Zhurong and ...
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Explorer Scouts in Shropshire will soon launch into learning space skills
Explorer Scouts here in Shropshire will now be able to earn a Space Activity Badge for the first time in the section’s ...
Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space, a Rocket Start-Up, as C.E.O.
The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, ...