Ten Earth years later and Curiosity is still exploring Mars
"We've got thumbnails!!" shouted, emotionally, over excited celebrations, is my most intense memory from 10 years ago. I had sat, ...
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NASA's Perseverance cores 12th sample, team assessing rover's coring bit
Images and data downlinked Thursday from Perseverance show that we've successfully cored, sealed, and stored our 12th sample of the ...
Images of EDL Debris
When Perseverance landed on Mars on February 18, 2021 the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware was discarded onto the ...
Modeling reveals how dwarf planet Ceres powers unexpected geologic activity
For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, said Scott King, a geoscientist in the Virginia Tech College ...
NASA adds 2 helicopters to mission to bring Mars samples back to Earth
NASA officials have changed the agency's plans for its daring and complicated effort to bring actual samples of Mars back ...
NASA details plans to bring back Mars rock samples
NASA plans to bring 30 Martian rock samples back to Earth in 2033, the agency said Wednesday -- and is ...
NASA marks 25 years since Pathfinder touched down on Mars
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ...
NASA aims to return Mars samples to Earth in 2033
NASA has finished the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual ...
Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars
Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA's Johnson Space Center and the California Institute of Technology have an answer to a ...
Lava caves of Hawaii Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial species
The lava caves, lava tubes and geothermal vents on the big island of Hawai?i have higher bacterial diversity than scientists ...