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NASA's Perseverance Rover Spots a Martian "Avocado" Rock

Taken on September 8 in the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance is diligently searching for signs of ancient life, this curious snapshot adds to the rover's growing collection of rocks that resemble familiar objects.

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Perseverance Rover's Experiment Produces Breathable Oxygen on Mars for the Final Time

This achievement represents a significant step toward self-sufficiency for future Mars missions, as astronauts could potentially generate essential resources from the planet's environment.

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Astronomers Discover Traces of an Ancient Martian Ocean on the Slopes of Olympus Mons

The escarpments indicate that the ocean would have filled in a depression around Olympus Mons. Similar features are found on the northern flank of another Martian volcano, Alba Mons, suggesting the extent of the ancient ocean.

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NASA Highlights: Crew-6 Returns and Ancient Life Research for Mars Exploration

Australia's outback isn't just about kangaroos and the beautiful wilderness. NASA, in partnership with international scientists, is tapping into Australia's ancient records to better inform their search for life on Mars.

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Astronomers Find Traces of Ancient Glaciers in Mars Photos

Although Mars is predominantly known for its cold and desiccated environment today, these images offer a glimpse into a more dynamic past. The planet once had a denser atmosphere and significant surface water.

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NASA Finds That Days on Mars Are Getting Shorter

Recent measurements collected by NASA's InSight Mars Lander have revealed that the length of a Martian day is diminishing by around three-quarters of a millisecond annually due to the planet's spinning rate speeding up.

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence of Wet-Dry Climate on Ancient Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has unveiled remarkable evidence suggesting that Mars, now a desolate and arid landscape, once experienced seasonal climate changes that alternated between wet and dry conditions similar to those on Earth.

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NASA Unveils a New Stunning Video from Mars

The remarkable level of detail in the video is a testament to the HiRISE camera's capabilities. Its exceptional resolution and precision allow for the capture of even the smallest objects, resulting in a breathtaking visual experience.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers a Doughnut-Shaped Rock on Mars

The rock, which resembles a doughnut, was captured in a photograph taken on Friday, June 23. It is surrounded by other rocks of a similar shade, indicating a shared origin that could extend beyond Mars.

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NASA Administrator Says Humanity Can Land on Mars by 2040

NASA believes that the goal of landing humans on Mars can be achieved by 2040. The agency is working on various technological advancements and mission plans to make this ambitious objective a reality.

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ESA Held the First-Ever Livestream from Mars

The livestream featured images captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) onboard the Mars Express spacecraft. These images were transmitted to Earth and then streamed directly on YouTube.

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Scientists Confirmed the Composition of Mars's Core Using Seismic Waves

Scientists were able to confirm the composition of Mars's core using seismic waves that traveled through the Red Planet. It turned out that Mats has a liquid core made of iron alloy and high amounts of sulfur and oxygen.

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NASA Unveils the Most Detailed 3D Map of Mars

The most detailed interactive map of Mars has a resolution of about 25 square meters per pixel and was created by the scientists of the Bruce Murray Planetary Visualization Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology over the course of six years.

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Snapped a Photo of a Sunset on Mars

Martian clouds are mostly made of frozen ice and float about 60 kilometers above the ground. However, in this new image, the clouds reach an unusually higher altitude. NASA suggests these clouds are probably made of carbon dioxide ice, also known as dry ice.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Records the Sound of a Dust Devil on Mars

On September 27, 2021, the vortex of at least 118 metres high and 25 metres wide passed directly over the rover as it landed in the Jezero crater.

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NASA and DARPA to Create a Working Nuclear Thermal Rocket by 2027

As noted by NASA, nuclear-powered spacecraft will allow for shorter flight times, reducing the risks for astronauts during long-distance missions, such as future crewed missions to Mars.

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NASA's HiRISE Captures an Image of a Bear's Face on Mars

The circular fracture pattern could have been caused by sediment over a buried impact crater. The nose could have been formed by a volcanic or mud vent.

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NASA Showed How It Will Bring Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth

A set of samples from the rover will be reloaded aboard the Mars Ascent Vehicle. It will deliver the samples to a Martian orbit, where they will be picked up by the Earth Return Orbiter and delivered to Earth.

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The Automated Martian Station InSight Stopped Communicating

The InSight space science station, which arrived at Mars in 2018, has stopped communicating. As NASA noted, the last time the spacecraft could be contacted was December 15.

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Astronomers Discover Traces of an Ancient Ocean on Mars

Scientists from Pennsylvania State University have found evidence that about 3.5 billion years ago, Mars had a vast ocean, which covered hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the planet. Its existence was indicated by the topography of the shoreline.

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Mars Is Littered with More than 15 Thousand Pounds of Human Trash

West Virginia University postdoc Cagri Kilic has calculated how much debris humans have left on Mars over 50 years of exploring the surface of the Red Planet. There are now three main sources of debris: discarded hardware, inactive spacecraft, crashed spacecraft.

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Astronauts Could Use Martian Soil for 3D-Printing

In most of their experiments, the researchers mixed different amounts of simulated Martian regolith with a titanium alloy. They also tried to make a 3D-printing material from pure simulated regolith.

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You Can Now Explore Mars Using an Interactive Map

The map was unveiled at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada, Spain. It was created using orbital images as well as three-dimensional panoramic views of the Jezero crater.

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A Rare Alignment of Five Planets Took Place on June 24

For the first time in 18 years, billions of people around the world could enjoy an incredible spectacle in the night sky – a parade of planets. This is an astronomical phenomenon in which several planets line up in a single arc in the sky.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Has a Traveling Companion in the Form of a Pet Rock

The Perseverance rover has shared an image of its traveling companion – a pet rock that managed to find its way into the front left wheel of the rover in early February and has traveled more than eight and a half kilometers (5.3 miles) with it since then.