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NASA is investing in a rocket that could get humans to Mars and back in 2 months — and travel at 100,000 mph
The Pulsed Plasma Rocket could significantly shorten a round-trip to Mars, reduce risks to astronauts' health, and be ready to launch in 20 years.
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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
DSS-43 is the only antenna that can communicate with the probe
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NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year
The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.
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Surgeon Reacts To THE MARS MISSION | Dr. Chris Raynor
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While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter
One day on Mars is about 37 minutes longer than an Earth day – but it seems both planets are working to fix the gap. Data from NASA’s InSight lander have revealed Martian days are getting ever so slightly shorter, and scientists aren’t sure why.
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NASA makes contact with Mars helicopter after long silence | Digital Trends
NASA has restored contact with its Mars helicopter after 63 days of silence. The communications dropout, however, wasn't unexpected.
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Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars after 63-day silence
After 63 days of silence, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is talking again. The little chopper took to the Martian skies on April 26 for its 52nd flight but lost contact with mission controllers before landing — creating a monthslong communications blackout.
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NASA Re-Establishes Contact With Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
Washington: The official mission logbook now lists the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 52nd flight as a success. The trip took place on April 26 but mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost communication with the chopper as it dropped towards the Mars surface for landing.
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Using photosynthesis for Martian occupation—while making space travel more sustainable
Researchers are working on sustainable technology to harvest solar power in space—which could supplement life support systems on the moon and Mars. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists assess a new technique which could convert renewable, green energy from outside the Earth's atmosphere. They are taking advantage of photosynthesis—the chemical process plants undergo every day to create energy—to help the space industry become more sustainable.
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How NASA Plans to Melt the Moon—and Build on Mars
Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.
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A deep underground lab could hold key to habitability on Mars
Tunnels deep underground in North Yorkshire are providing a unique opportunity to study how humans might be able to live and operate on the
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First up-close images of Mars’s little-known Moon Deimos
The United Arab Emirates’ space probe Hope has taken the first high-resolution images of the farside of Mars’s moonlet Deimos. The observations add weight to the theory that Deimos formed together with Mars, rather than as an asteroid that was captured in the planet’s orbit, mission scientists say.
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NASA's Perseverance rover loses its hitchhiking 'pet rock' after more than a year together on Mars
The rover has finally lost a pesky rock that had become lodged in its front left wheel "like a pebble in its shoe." The stone had accompanied the rover for more than half its time on the Red Planet.
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You think patching Windows is a pain? Try patching a Mars rover millions of miles away
Just uploading the patch alone took 10 days.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover gets a major software upgrade
The update brings loads of improvements, the most significant being new driving capabilities.
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What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos on the dual rotor’s milestone aerial mission
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Strange circular dunes on Mars spotted in these NASA photos
Planetary scientists have captured an image of near-perfectly circular sand dunes on the surface of Mars. While sand dunes across the Red Planet come in a wealth of shapes and sizes, such well-defined circles are unusual.
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NASA's Curiosity rover spots "sun rays" on Mars for the first time
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agency says. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet. This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly.
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Is it a millipede, or a rock? The ‘evidence’ we’ve already found life on Mars
Group of academics say they have identified fossilised sponges, corals, worm eggs, algae and more on planet's surface
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NASA Images Confirm China's Mars Rover Hasn't Moved in Months
China's famously secretive space agency is quiet on the health of the rover.
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