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"Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet." ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Curiosity rover driving through the Gale Crater. The spacecraft ...
Cool space image shows route of Mars rover as it treks across the Red Planet - The Curiosity rover is heading to a region ...
Scientists have known for a while that Mars currently lacks a magnetic field, and many blame that for its paltry atmosphere – ...
Comparing their findings to actual data from Mars taken by Nasa spacecrafts, the researchers found that simulations with rainfall lined up more closely with the real Red Planet. They cautioned ...
A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...
First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...
NASA's fourth Mars rover has found large carbon deposits within carbonate minerals, suggesting that both liquid water and an Earth-like carbon cycle once existed on the Red Planet. Further ...
Now, experts have unearthed evidence that the Red Planet was once habitable. Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. And it means ...
While climbing up a mountain in the Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover—which originally arrived at the Red Planet back in 2011—analyzed three to four centimeters into the Martian soil by ...
Their goal is to study the planet's volcanic and hydrological history, looking for indicators that Mars might have once been habitable. Through their research, the team has discovered two types of ...