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  Martian Dust Storm Dissipating

  November 28, 2012 — A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going ... > full story
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  One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars

  November 27, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity began its flight to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft. One year after launch and ... > full story
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  Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express Relays Rocky Images

  November 26, 2012 — For the first time, ESA’s Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface. The data included detailed images of ... > full story
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  Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm

  November 21, 2012 — A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on ... > full story
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  Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities

  November 20, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook ... > full story
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  Instrument Delivered for NASA's Upcoming Mars Mission

  November 19, 2012 — A remote sensing instrument that will peer into the ultraviolet to offer clues to how Mars might have lost its atmosphere has arrived at Lockheed Martin for integration into NASA's Mars Atmosphere ... > full story
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  Mars Formed from Similar Building Blocks to That of Earth, Reveals Study of Martian Meteorites

  November 19, 2012 — A team of scientists studied the hydrogen in water from the Martian interior and found that Mars formed from similar building blocks to that of Earth, but that there were differences in the later ... > full story

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  Melt Water on Mars Could Sustain Life, New Research Suggests

  November 16, 2012 — Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet’s northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geologic history and comprise striking ... > full story
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  NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

  November 15, 2012 — Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's ... > full story
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  Meteorites Reveal Warm Water Existed on Mars

  November 15, 2012 — Hydrothermal fractures around Martian impact craters may have been a habitable environment for microbial life. New research into evidence of water on Mars determined that water temperatures on the ... > full story

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