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NASA Is Testing How To Land On Mars So It Can Send Humans There
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - A helium balloon carrying an experimental saucer-shaped NASA spacecraft floated off a launch tower at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on...
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New Maps Reveal Mars Mystery
Where did the water on Mars come from, and where did it go? This plot (sort of) formed the basis of one of the best Doctor Who episodes of the modern era, but in all seriousness, it is also driving...
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Beautiful Map Of Mars Contains More Than 30 Years Of Data
The ground in Elysium is made of volcanic flows. That's according to the newest geologic map of Mars, above, from the U.S. Geological Survey. Elysium Planitia is a named feature on Mars, but we're...
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Curiosity Just Stumbled Across A Huge Iron Meteorite On Mars
Meet Lebanon, an iron meteorite that NASA's Curiosity rover ran into on its 640th sol (Martian day) on Mars. Back here on Earth, it was May 25, 2014.It's not clear why Curiosity's engineers named this...
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Elon Musk Tells Colbert The Real Reason He Wants Us To Go To Mars
In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explained one of his most famous lofty goals. "We are aspiring to send people to Mars," he said."That's fantastic,"...
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NASA: We Could Bring People To Mars By The 2030s
It might be one of your classmates, a work colleague. Or maybe even a punk kid who does oil drilling in the middle of the ocean. But NASA is sure the first humans to step foot on Mars are already...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: Here's How Long You Could Survive On Every Planet In Our...
We know how long a human being could survive on a summer day on Mars without a spacesuit. (Answer: not long at all.) But what about the other planets in our solar system?Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks it...
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Google Just Added Maps For Mars And The Moon, And The Level Of Detail Is...
Google on Tuesday quietly introduced a feature on Google Maps that lets you visit Mars and the moon without ever needing to leave your desk chair. No, the company didn’t send its Street View cars into...
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NASA Tested And Recovered This Insane Flying Saucer Mars Lander
On Thursday, NASA revealed that it in June it had tested a new lander design for future interplanetary missions.Here it is high above the Earth, firing rockets:This is from the space agency's...
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No More Space Trucking For Europe As Space Agency Aims For Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. - A European resupply line to the International Space Station closed on Tuesday with the arrival of a fifth and final freighter to the orbital outpost.Europe’s Automated Transfer...
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The Mars Rover Curiosity Has Finally Arrived At Her Destination
Curiosity has got a new mountain to climb, and will soon have mountains of data to share. The Mars rover has just arrived at the base of Mount Sharp, at the center of Gale Crater, NASA announced...
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Elon Musk: SpaceX Wants To Build A City On Mars
With all the excitement surrounding SpaceX, and the success of PayPal and Tesla Motors, one might expect Elon Musk to take SpaceX public. So why hasn't he?"The reason I haven't taken SpaceX public is...
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Russia's 7 Most Ambitious Space Projects
This summer, the Russian Space Agency (Rosсosmos) announced a number of ambitious projects. RBTH has created a list of the most exciting and expensive ones. Of course, not all of these projects will be...
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Mars Orbiter Ends 10-Month Journey By Slipping Into Orbit Around The Red Planet
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - A NASA robotic spacecraft fired its braking rockets on Sunday, ending a 10-month journey to put itself into orbit around Mars and begin a hunt for the planet's lost...
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NASA On Mars Spacecraft Entering Orbit: 'We Nailed It'
NASA's next Mars spacecraft, MAVEN, entered orbit Sunday night, 10 months after launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida."You get one shot with orbital insertion, and MAVEN nailed it tonight," Maven...
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India's First Mars Probe Makes It Into Orbit Around The Red Planet
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet's orbit on Wednesday, crowning India as the first country to complete the trip at its maiden attempt.The...
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5 Surprising Things That Cost More Than India's Historic Mission To Mars
India just became Asia's first interplanetary power. The country's Mangalyaan satellite successfully made it into orbit around Mars on Wednesday after a roughly 10-month journey. The mission comes at...
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Here's How India Made Such A Cheap Space Probe And Left Everyone Else In The...
India launched a probe that settled into orbit around Mars at 8 in morning of Sept. 24, India Standard Time, making them the first Asian country to successfully reach the red planet.What's even more...
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India's Cheap Mars Spacecraft Just Sent Back Its Very First Photo
The first photo of Mars from India's Mangalyaan spacecraft was posted to Facebook on Thursday by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Check out the view in the photo above from a height of...
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Here's Why A Leading Futurist Hopes We Don't Find Life On Mars
The Red Planet has been getting a lot of attention recently, between India's low-cost MOM probe entering Mars's orbit, NASA's MAVEN doing the same, and the Curiosity rover reaching the most potentially...
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