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U.S. – Mariner 3: Cover of craft never detached from rocket. U.S. – Mariner 4: First Mars success; returned 21 photos. USSR – Zond 2: Radio and solar panel failed. U.S. – Mariner 8: Launch ...
The search for signs of life on Mars needs a bit of a rethink, scientists argue in a new study. A popular strategy calls for investigating spots where waterborne sediment accumulated long ago ...
You may not see too many blogs phrasing it this way, but the odds of nothing happening with Mars have gone done from 99% to 96%. 2007 WD5 is a 50 or so meter wide rock heading toward Mars, and may ...
Mars may appear red when viewed from Earth, but NASA's Curiosity rover has captured an up-close photo of the planet's mountainous landscape, with purple-colored rocks littered across the foreground.
The car-sized Curiosity landed inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012, on a quest to determine if the area could have supported Earth-like life long ago.. The robot ...
Today, the Planetary Society's Susan Lendroth pointed out that even before Mars 96, "Visions of Mars" made a successful sortie into space, thanks to NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid.
The flawless, albeit complicated, landing was confirmed Sunday at 10:32 p.m. PDT after Curiosity set down near the foot of a mountain three miles tall inside Mars’ 96-mile-wide Gale Crater.
A popular strategy calls for investigating spots where waterborne sediment accumulated long ago, like the ancient lake-bed environment that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered inside Mars' 96-mile ...
In the rover's five years on Mars, it has completed an extensive list of tasks that have taught those back on Earth a lot about the history of the planet and whether life on Mars may one day be ...
Curiosity landed inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater in August 2012, kicking off a $2.5 billion mission to determine if the area could ever have supported microbial life.
Mars 96 was launched from Kazakhstan on Sunday morning, Sydney time, aboard a Proton rocket. Its fourth stage failed, stranding the craft in an 87-minute Earth orbit.
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