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Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?
Three rovers will launch to Mars in 2020 aiming for different landing sites. The US mission, the Chinese mission, and a joint European-Russian mission will all pack chemical and geological ...
If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate, ...
When the Curiosity rover touches down on the surface of Mars in August 2012, it will be the fourth rover to make tracks across the Red Planet in fifteen years. Curiosity, or the Mars Science ...
Because while Mars might have claimed NASA's little Wall-E rover, that's not going to stop us from launching more rovers and getting them to reccy the planet before us humans head to Mars as well ...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop that stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
This summer NASA's two car-sized labs exploring Mars each discovered rocks that neither mission had seen before, revealing a more diverse history for the planet than previously thought. Three ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, February 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. The agency is sharing multiple ways for people to experience the landing.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot it is creating within an area of Jezero Crater nicknamed "Three Forks." ...
More importantly, both rovers sparked even more questions with every discovery they made, influencing the design of the $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover launched in 2011 that is currently ...