martian soil
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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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The InSight Mars Lander Mission Will End This Year, NASA Says
NASA officials announced in a press conference today that the InSight lander on Mars will likely stop operating at the end of 2022, following three years of scientific work on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Martian Dust Could End NASA’s InSight Mission in a Matter of Months
Dwindling access to power, the result of dust settling onto solar panels, is threatening to end NASA’s InSight Mars mission by April of next year.