Tag: mars
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Mission led by Colorado lab ends after decade studying erosion of Mars atmosphere
Scientists at NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder have said goodbye to a spacecraft that has spent the last 11 years analyzing the atmosphere of Mars and how it became a rocky planet. The federal space agency announced Wednesday it has closed the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (or MAVEN) mission after it lost…
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Mars Sample Return mission in jeopardy, Lockheed Martin thinks it can still be done
When it landed on Mars in 2021, the Perseverance rover set out to collect roughly 30 samples of soil from the red planet. The grand space strategy at the time would see the samples retrieved by another spacecraft and brought back to earth later. Originally meant to be an autonomous retrieval, led by local aerospace…
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NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter has taken flight
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NASA releases first Mars video and images of Perseverance rover landing
NASA unveiled the first video and audio recordings from its Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Among the content released on Monday is a video showing Perseverance land on the red planet after a journey of millions of miles from Earth.
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NEWS | Countdown to Mars
A NASA rover landed on Mars Thursday in a mission to collect samples to bring back to Earth.
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Chinese spacecraft carrying lunar rocks lifts off from moon
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported. Chang’e 5, the third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon and the first to take off from it again, is the latest…