Nitrogen Detected on Mars’ Surface by Curiosity Rover
A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of…
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Curiosity Rover Aids Plans for Future Robotic and Human Mars Missions
NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars’ past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little…
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Radiation Measured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Implications for Future Manned Missions to Mars
This set of artist’s concepts shows NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory cruise capsule and NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is being built now at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter May Have Spotted 1971 Soviet Lander on Mars
Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about…
Read the articleCuriosity Rover Shows Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus…
Read the articleCuriosity Rover Successfully Collects First-Ever Interior Rock Sample on Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock…
Read the articleCuriosity Examines Pyramidal Mars Rock That Resembles Unusual Rocks From Earth’s Interior
The first Martian rock NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles…
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