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NASA's Perseverance Just Broke The Off-World Driving Record, While Mostly Steering Itself

The Perseverance rover's first selfie, snapped with the WATSON camera on its robotic arm, on April 6, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

NASA may already have proof life once existed on another planet. Scientists might never get to find out

US officials canceled NASA’s ambitious Mars Sample Return program, leaving potential evidence of ancient life sitting on Mars ...

Mars without its makeup can look a little blue. Here's why.

Is the camera tricking us, then? Mostly not. Lemmon traces the blue to the ground itself. Rocks scoured clean of dust and ...

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Has ‘Blown Well Past’ Expectations, Sets New Space Exploration Record

Perseverance traveled 28.1 miles, surpassing the distance Opportunity covered during its nearly 15-year mission ...
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See sunrise on Mars in breathtaking new NASA images — as mysterious, billion-year-old crags come into view

NASA's Curiosity Rover has snapped stunning images of Mars at dawn, revealing the planet's mysterious crags -- known as the yardang layer -- in unprecedented detail. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / SWNS NASA ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Detailed Martian Rover Photograph Highlights Mysterious Cliffs on the Edge of One of Mars’ Mountains

The yardangs sit on the northwest side of a three-mile-tall mountain called Mount Sharp, and both features sit in Mars’ Gale ...
Yahoo

A NASA rover just discovered something strange on Mars - and scientists can’t explain it

NASA's Curiosity rover just made a strange discovery. The vehicle stumbled upon honeycomb-like patterns of polygons on the surface of the Martian valley known as "Valle Grande" last month. While this ...
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Animation of NASA spacecraft's flyby of Jupiter's volcanic moon Lo

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...
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Mars did have complex carbon. A NASA rover found its hiding place.

NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in October 2020. Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / MSSS Scientists know those ...