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Mars the Red Planet: Latest News and Discoveries
Mars, The Red Planet, Fourth Planet From The Sun
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Curiosity may have found traces of salty perchlorates in Rocknest, a potential hint of life's building blocks.
The pioneering Apollo astronaut plots his vision for the future of space exploration in a new book to be released this spring.
The comet ISON is making what astronomers believe is its first trip through the inner solar system, taking a sweltering pass by the sun (making ISON a 'sungrazing' comet) and then back past Earth in December.
This space wallpaper is a mosaic showing part of the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘Labyrinth of the Night’, on Mars. It was composed by Bill Dunford using scenes available in the Mars Express image archive, HRSC view.
A recently discovered comet will make an uncomfortably-close planetary flyby next year — but this time it’s not Earth that's in the cosmic crosshairs.
The two small bodies that orbit the red planet raise a number of questions about the formation of the early solar system.
Curiosity has been busy since landing on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012.
Curiosity had been recovering from a memory issue since late February.
The Caltech Space Challenge runs all week.
Private companies and nonprofit organizations are planning deep space missions to the moon, asteroids and even Mars.
NASA won't send commands to its various Mars explorers for much of April.
The moon's orbit brings it 6 feet closer to the red planet every century.
Deimos' radius is only 3.9 miles. The tiny moon zips around Mars in only 30 hours and is so close to its parent planet that it was missed for centuries.
Curiosity has still not resumed science operations, however.
The Department of Energy has made its first plutonium-238 in a quarter century.
A look at the robotic spacecraft currently sending data home from beyond Earth orbit.
A minor computer error has sent Curiosity back into safe mode.
This cool space wallpaper is a mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which shows Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment.
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