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Who Will Get to Mars Fir
Explore the race to Mars! Discover NASA, SpaceX, and China's plans, their groundbreaking goals, and the challenges of reaching the Red Planet.
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Mars Dune Alpha - Inside NASA's Simulated Mars Mission
Report: Stu Sternberg agrees to sell Tampa Bay Rays for $1.7 billion Cal Raleigh wins the Home Run Derby with his dad and ...
Things on Mars that look like they shouldn't be there
The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...
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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured
Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
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Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks (video)
The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.
This company could save NASA’s doomed Martian Sample Return mission
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...
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The first Mars close-up
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
Want to own a huge chunk of Mars? It'll likely cost you up to $4 million
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
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A dead Mars may have been inevitable – and the Sun is to blame
New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...
NASA Flips a Mars Orbiter Upside Down – And Discovers a Hidden World
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...
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Happy anniversary, Mariner 4! NASA probe got 1st-ever up-close look at Mars 60 years ago today
After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...