Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B Revealed by Hubble
Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic…
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NASA Researchers Identify Water Rich Martian Meteorite
NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water…
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A Tribute to the Efforts of Everyone Who Helped Make the Curiosity Mission a Success
The Mars Science Laboratory, nicknamed “Curiosity,” was a feat of passion and engineering unparalleled for some time. As the space shuttles retired from service and NASA…
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Detailed Images of Rocknest3 Rocks Relayed From Mars
For the first time, ESA’s Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface. The data included detailed images of…
Read the articleCuriosity Provides Clues as to How Mars May Have Lost Much of Its Original Atmosphere
NASA’s car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere. This picture shows a lab demonstration…
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A Crescent Mars
The sight of the crescent Moon hanging in the sky above Earth is a familiar one, but this image taken by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft as it…
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Mars Express Provides High Resolution Images of Hadley Crater
Recently engaged in providing support to the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, ESA’s Mars Express has now returned to its primary mission…
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Fantastic Phobos in 3D
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars’ largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail – and in 3D – in an image taken by ESA’s…
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Watch Curiosity’s Heat Shield Hit Mars and Create a Dust Cloud
A new NASA video shows the cloud of dust that rose from the surface of the Red Planet after the Curiosity rover’s heat shield hit the…
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Curiosity and Its Components Images by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components…
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