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NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars just collected its 3rd sample of the Red Planet (photos)
NASA's Perseverance rover has socked away another Martian sample to send home to Earth. The car-sized Perseverance rover drilled a core sample on Monday (Nov. 15), filling a titanium tube with Red Planet rock for the third time ever.
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Perseverance rover snaps first Mars photos after communications blackout. They're stunning.
The car-sized robot, and NASA's other Mars craft, had to stand down recently because the Red Planet went behind the sun. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first "solar conjunction" blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet. It's even phoned home with its first Mars photos since reawakening.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid shares new image of Mars taken by Hope Probe
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, has shared a new picture of Mars taken by the Hope Probe. He said on Saturday that data Hope had gleaned showed larger-than-expected amounts of oxygen on the Red Planet.
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50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon
The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers.
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Photos show Chinese rover on dusty, rocky Martian surface
The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet. The four pictures released by the China National Space Administration also show the upper stage of the Zhurong rover and the view from the rover before it rolled off its platform.
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NASA Just Dropped a Stunning New 360-Degree Video of Mars
Explore the Red Planet through the eyes and ears of NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Amazing new photos show extremely rare clouds drifting over Mars
Just after sunset on Mars, “noctilucent” clouds grow brighter as they fill with crystals, shimmering as the sky darkens behind them in a remarkable display caught by NASA cameras.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured amazing images of clouds on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars— as described in its blog post: “wispy puffs filled with ice crystals that scattered light from the setting sun, some of them shimmering with color.” According to NASA clouds are rare in the thin atmosphere of Mars, but usually form at its equator during its coldest time of year. Scientists noticed that last year — two years ago in Earth time— there were clouds beginning to form earlier than expected, so this year they were ready.
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Curiosity rover on Mars spotted from space as it climbs 'Mont Mercou' (video)
We now have a bird's eye view of the Curiosity rover and its latest Martian digs. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured a dramatic image last month of Curiosity ascending Mont Mercou, a landform on the slopes of the Red Planet's 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mount Sharp.
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China reveals first Mars photos taken by the Zhurong rover | Engadget
China's space agency has released the first photos taken by the Zhurong rover on Mars, showing parts of its lander and the red planet itself.
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The Very First Pictures Have Arrived From China's Mars Rover Zhurong
This is #Zhurong (#Tianwen1) Mars Rover reporting to Earthlings! I’m currently at 109.9E, 25.1N, Utopia Planitia, Mars.
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NASA's 'mole' tried to dig into Mars. It didn't go as planned.
After its first attempt to penetrate the rust-colored Martian surface in 2019, NASA's “mole” sent a signal back to Earth. It was not good news. The mole is part of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP³) on NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars in 2018.
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Astronomers see a ‘Space Jellyfish’
A radio telescope located in outback Western Australia has observed a cosmic phenomenon with a striking resemblance to a jellyfish. Published today in The Astrophysical Journal, an Australian-Italian team used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to observe a cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2877.
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Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
Amazing images as Nasa's Perseverance rover lands on Mars and seeks signs of past microbial life.
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What geologists see when they look at Perseverance's landing site
Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and teasing out the rock's secrets. Mars would be the ultimate field trip for many of them, but sadly, that's not possible.
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Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. This image was acquired on Feb. 24, 2021 (Sol 3) at the local mean solar time of 16:22:38.
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NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars is carrying an adorable 'family portrait' of Martian rovers
NASA's Perseverance rover has brought the "family portrait" bumper sticker fad to a whole new world.
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Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet
Just four martian days after touching down on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back its first video of its new home: a 1-minute arabesque of color and motion captured from four on-board cameras, as the car-size rover dangles from its rocket-propelled descent vehicle, a red-and-white parachute snaps into place, and the pitted surface of Mars comes slowly into view, dark canyons giving way to ripples of dust that look like giant, rust-colored dunes (see video, above).
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Striking NASA animation reveals the harrowing descent to Mars that the Perseverance rover is about to attempt
A capsule carrying Perseverance will plunge through Mars's atmosphere (left) and a jetpack will fly the rover to a safe landing spot (right).
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Inside a Martian canyon
The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission returned this image of an area in Melas Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. Valles Marineris stretches for more than 4000 km across the planet’s surface, and plunges more than 7 km deep in places.
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