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NASA Plans Another Mission to Mars
Artist rendition of the InSight Lander at work on the surface of Mars. (Photo: JPL/NASA) NASA just can’t get enough of Mars. Two weeks after successfully landing the much-ballyhooed rover Curiosity...
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Curiosity Beams Back Stunning Mars Images, Human Voice
This photo of the base of Mount Sharp shows the layered geology of Mars. (NASA) NASA’s Curiosity rover has beamed back spectacular HD photos of the Martian surface. Captured by a 100-millimeter...
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Mars Meteorite Sparks New Questions About Red Planet
The Martian meteorite known as “Black Beauty” weighs approximately 320 grams. (Carl Agee/University of New Mexico) Scientists have determined a meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011 is...
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NASA Wants to Speed Journey to Mars
Mars in late spring as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) NASA wants to shorten the journey to Mars. It took about eight months for its Mars rover, Curiosity, to reach the red planet. And now,...
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Evidence of Water Found on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named “Hottah.” (NASA) The Curiosity...
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Curiosity Rover Finds Water on Mars
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite of instruments, prior to its installation on Curiosity. (NASA) The first scoop of Martian soil analyzed by Curiosity Rover’s built-in laboratory has revealed a...
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US, India Prep for Unmanned Missions to Mars
The planet Mars in late spring as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) Both the United States and India are gearing up for unmanned missions to Mars. India will launch its first interplanetary...
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Curiosity Determines Age of Martian Rocks
This sequence of images from Curiosity’ show the rover drilling into a rock target. (NASA) The Curiosity Rover has accomplished yet another first as it continues its amazing journey across the Martian...
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NASA Delves into Deep Recesses of Mars
Artist’s rendering of the InSight lander on Mars. Just under the spacecraft’s left dish, the mission’s heat-flow probe burrows into the surface of the Red Planet. (NASA) NASA hope exploring the deep...
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Science Scanner: Curiosity’s Mars Selfie, Jurassic Caterpillar & an X-ray of...
Odd X-ray Signal Might be Sign of Dark Matter Astronomers found mysterious X-ray signal in 73 galaxy clusters including Perseus, shown here. Inside the image is a plot of X-ray intensity as a function...
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Science Images of the Week
A customer in Santa Monica, California, purchases the popular digital currency, bitcoins, using one of two new ATM’s that were put into operation on June 21, 2014. (Reuters) An ESA ATV-5 spacecraft is...
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Science Images of the Week
Here’s an animated image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken July 14, 2014, by OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system aboard the European Space Agency’s comet hunting spacecraft Rosetta. The image...
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Science Scanner: Mars Rover Sets Off-Earth Distance Record; Infants Smell...
The gold line shows Opportunity’s path of travel on Mars. The start point, its Eagle Crater landing site, is on the top left. And, its current location after traveling a record-setting 40.25 km is...
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Two Martian Probes Set to Orbit Red Planet
The planet Mars in late spring as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology) Two unmanned spacecraft headed to Mars, one launched by the United States and the...
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Volcanic Activity Linked to A Warm and Wet Ancient Mars
Early in Mars history water formed an open-basin lake, filling the crater, forming a delta, and breaching the lower rim as water flowed to lower elevations (blue). (NASA/James Dickson, Brown...
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Science Scanner: Venus Mission Ends, Organic Chemistry on Mars, Hormone...
Artist impression of ESA’s Venus Express conducting special maneuvers to lower its orbit around Venus ((c) ESA–C. Carreau) ESA’s Venus Express Mission Ends The European Space Agency (ESA) announced...
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Mars Once Abundant With Water
An artist’s impression shows how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger) Past observations made by a number of Mars probes, such as the Curiosity rover and...
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Scientists Find Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
An artist’s impression shows how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger/skysurvey.org) Previous studies have indicated that liquid water once flowed on the...
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Watching Cat Videos Can Give You a Boost You can hardly surf the Internet without stumbling across a cat video, and new research suggests those videos could actually be good for you. Of all the...
View ArticleNASA’s Boomerang-Like Aircraft, Kid Athletes Excel in Class, Citrus and Skin...
Boomerang-Like Aircraft Could Help NASA Find Landing Sites on Mars NASA has built a prototype of what it hopes to be the first aircraft to fly on Mars sometime in the 2020’s. Shaped like a boomerang,...
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