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'International Beam Team' Solves Martian Meteorite-Age Puzzle
By directing energy beams at
tiny crystals found in a
Martian meteorite,
geologists have proven that
the most common group of
meteorites from Mars is
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Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter
An image from NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter
released today shows NASA's
Curiosity Mars rover and the
wheel tracks from its
landing site to the
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Curiosity Makes Its Longest One-Day Drive on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity
drove twice as far on July
21 as on any other day of
the mission so far: 109.7
yards (100.3 meters). The
length of the drive took
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Valley Networks Suggest Ancient Snowfall on Mars
Researchers have shown that
some Martian valleys appear
to have been caused by
runoff from orographic
precipitation -- moisture
carried part of the way up a
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How Mars' Atmosphere Got So Thin: Reports Detail Curiosity Clues to Atmosphere's Past
July 18, 2013 — A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original ... > full story -
MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet’s Past
July 18, 2013 — When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in ... > full story -
Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch
July 17, 2013 — An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destination on ... > full story -
Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving
July 17, 2013 — The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 ... > full story -
Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
July 10, 2013 — The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red ... > full story -
Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination
July 3, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than half of the distance needed to get from a site where it spent 22 months to its next ... > full story -
Sterilizing Mars Spacecraft Is Largely a Waste of Money, Two Experts Argue
June 27, 2013 — Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on ... > full story -
Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes from Curiosity Rover
June 24, 2013 — A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great ... > full story -
Mars Had Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4,000 Million Years Ago
June 19, 2013 — Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago -- well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen ... > full story -
Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm
June 12, 2013 — Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but ... > full story
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