Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which made history by achieving the first powered flight on another world, has officially ended its nearly three-year mission after sustaining rotor damage during its last outing, the space agency said…
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Crusts, cracks and other geologic features on sand dunes near the Martian equator are leading researchers to believe there may have been water there much more recently than previously thought. The features, likely caused by the movement…
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Mars’ heart is about the size of our moon, and almost twice as dense. Or so suggest the first observed rumblings from a Marsquake and meteorite impact to cross the Red Planet’s heart, researchers report April 24 in Proceedings of the…
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A spacecraft around Mars has sent back the most detailed photos yet of the red planet’s little moon. The UAE’s Amal spacecraft flew within 100 km of Deimos last month and the close-up shots were released on Monday. Amal — Arabic for…
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What is it about Superman that elicits so much cinematic lore? Recent events surrounding the change in who will play the Man of Steel are just the newest to follow this famous Kryptonian. Of all the starts and stops in Superman's long…
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In August 2021 on a lonely crater floor, the newest Mars rover dug into one of its first rocks. The percussive drill attached to the arm of the Perseverance rover scraped the dust and top several millimeters off a rocky outcrop in a…
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Rescue teams pulled two men out of a huge bowl of chocolate and took them to the hospital, after they mysteriously fell inside a Mars chocolate factory. The accident occurred on Thursday afternoon, at a factory belonging to the giant…
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NASA has published a video clip of its Ingenuity helicopter, which is making a record flight on the surface of Mars, in terms of duration and speed. The robotic helicopter flew at 12 mph for more than two minutes and 41 seconds during its…
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Last Wednesday evening, the Chinese Zhurong rover was hit by a severe dust storm on the surface of Mars. And the China National Space Administration said today, Friday, that the Zhurong rover has gone into sleep mode, awaiting the end of…
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The head of SpaceX has said that it will defeat NASA by reaching Mars at least 10 years ago. And the company's operational director, Gwen Shotwell, expects, in statements to CNBC, that the first manned flight of her will reach Mars before…
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