mars
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You Can Send Your Name to Mars
NASA will put your name on a spaceship and blast it off to another planet.
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NASA Tests the First Rocket to Launch From the Surface of Another Planet
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retrieving the samples. The team behind the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently tested…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars
Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars. Not life itself—hardly—but another endorsement of the ancient habitat on Mars as having been suitable for life. Perseverance has been searching for biosignatures—that is, signs of ancient life on Mars—since it landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. But the search for…
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You Up? Mars Helicopter Finally Makes Contact After Two Months of Silence
A hilly terrain on Mars stood between Ingenuity and Perseverance, interrupting their communication for over 60 days.