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Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for water on Mars
US President Donald Trump talked about it in his inauguration speech this year. Such an epic endeavor could help to answer ...
After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
A Lunar Lander’s Busy Day: Eclipse Photos and Rock Collecting
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
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Blue Ghost Lander Successfully Completes Historic Lunar Mission
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...
Failure is more than an option in rocket science — it’s a necessity
The second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship, proved an old adage: ...
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Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying
While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after awkwardly stumbling and ending up on its side, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which touched down just a few days ...
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Bringing Mars to Earth: solving Mars Sample Return
a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, a Sample Return Lander, and an Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). Unlike the baseline plans, Rocket Lab’s will perform under a firm-fixed price contract to ensure ...
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Photos: Deftones, The Mars Volta thrust PHX Arena into the blissful dark
But in Phoenix, shrouded in near total darkness, the band started off slowly and methodically to lure in fans. By the time they'd reached their peak toward the set's end, The Mars Volta had built ...
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Private lunar lander declared dead after landing sideways
A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials have confirmed. The news came after the botched ...
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Lunar Lander Trips and Dies Inside South Pole Crater
Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot. The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 ...
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Private lunar lander declared dead after crashing in moon's South Pole crater
A Texas company's privately owned lunar lander was deemed non-functional after landing off-target sideways in a crater close to the Moon's south pole, the firm said on Friday. The mission to drop ...
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Moon mission goes sideways: Private lunar lander declared dead after botched landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.