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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover,
Opportunity, is driving to a
new study area after a
dramatic finish to 20 months
on "Cape York" with
examination of a rock
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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
While Apollo 17 astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt visited Earth's moon
for three days in December
1972, they drove their
mission's Lunar Roving
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New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
Taking before and after
pictures of the Martian
terrain, researchers have
identified nearly 250 fresh
impact craters on the Red
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NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on NASA
The team operating NASA's
Curiosity Mars rover has
selected a second target
rock for drilling and
sampling. The rover will set
... > full story
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Wind, Not Water, Formed Mound on Mars, New Analysis Suggests
May 6, 2013 — Researchers suggest that Mars' roughly 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into Gale Crater where the mound sits. If correct, the research could dilute ... > full story -
Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life
May 1, 2013 — In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ... > full story -
Mars Opportunity Rover in Standby as Commanding Moratorium Ends
April 30, 2013 — During a moratorium on commanding this month while Mars passed nearly behind the sun -- a phase called solar conjunction -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered a type of standby ... > full story -
Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
April 15, 2013 — New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's ... > full story -
NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander
April 11, 2013 — Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, ... > full story -
Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still Dynamic
April 8, 2013 — Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate, scientists report. Evidence has strengthened that Mars ... > full story -
How Carbon Moves Within Planet Plays Big Role in Planetary Atmosphere Formation
April 8, 2013 — A new study suggests that the way carbon moves from within a planet to the surface plays a big role in the evolution of a planet's atmosphere. Mars, which likely released much of its carbon as ... > full story -
Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind
April 4, 2013 — Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ... > full story -
Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft
April 3, 2013 — An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated to NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN has a scheduled launch date of ... > full story -
Growing Plants on Mars
March 28, 2013 — Concrete plans for a one-way ticket to Mars have been forged. Food will have to be grown on location. Is this a distant future scenario? Not for scientists researching whether or not it is possible ... > full story
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