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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
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Was ancient Mars habitable? NASA's Perseverance rover is grinding into a 'weird, uncooperative' rock to find out
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
NASA's Curiosity rover discovers unusual 'boxwork' patterns on Mars linked to ancient waterways
The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...
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Is the US forfeiting its Red Planet leadership to China's Mars Sample Return plan?
"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure ...
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Does Mars have a moon?
One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...
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How China Could Win the Race to Return Rocks from Mars
China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...
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Nasa astronaut Anil Menon to embark on first mission to International Space Station
NASA astronaut Anil Menon has been assigned his first mission to International Space Station, serving as a flight engineer ...
Indian-origin NASA astronaut Anil Menon to embark on first International Space Station mission
NASA astronaut Anil Menon has been assigned his first mission to International Space Station, serving as a flight engineer ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: ‘very large rolls’
The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, ...
Mars Mystery Deepens: Curiosity Uncovers a Secret Lattice of Bizarre Ridges in Gale Crater
A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...
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What Mars can teach us about life
In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...