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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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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  Marks on Martian Dunes May Be Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds

  June 11, 2013 — NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers ... > full story
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  Martian Clay Contains Chemical Implicated in the Origin of Life, Astrobiologists Find

  June 10, 2013 — Researchers have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate), boron may have played a key role in the formation of RNA, one of the ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers

  June 7, 2013 — Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. The destination, called ... > full story
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  NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point

  June 6, 2013 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars' Gale Crater last summer. Curiosity is finishing investigations in an ... > full story
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  Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars

  May 30, 2013 — Detailed analysis and review have borne out researchers' initial interpretation of pebble-containing slabs that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity investigated last year: They are part of an ancient ... > full story

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  Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions

  May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story

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