Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This…
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A Frosty Morning on Mars
Thanks to a break in the dusty ‘weather’ over the giant Hellas Basin at the beginning of this year, ESA’s Mars Express was able to look…
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Hubble Observations of Comet Siding Spring Mars Encounter
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Image of Comet Siding Spring Next to Mars
This composite Hubble Space Telescope image (click image for larger view) captures the positions of Comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of…
Read the articleLearn About the Comet Siding Spring Close Encounter With Mars This Weekend
This weekend, Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) will make a historically close approach to Mars. Satellites and rovers will get an eye-full as the green comet…
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This weekend, Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) will make a historically close approach to Mars. Satellites and rovers will get an eye-full as the green comet…
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MAVEN’s First Ultraviolet Views of Mars’ Atmosphere
Three views of an escaping atmosphere (click image for larger view), obtained by MAVEN’s Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, are shown here. By observing all of the products…
Read the articleNASA Prepares Its Spacecraft for Mars Comet Encounter on Oct. 19
NASA’s extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday,…
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After 10-month voyage across more than 400 million miles of empty space, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft reached Mars on Sept. 21st 2014. Less than 8 hours later,…
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