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Latest News On Planet Mars
Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's ViewIn its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic ...
Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso...
NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map EverA camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the...
Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's TouchdownA downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spac...
Core values set new date for birth of the EarthThe Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found. An international team of researchers used geo...
Wheels for off-roading on MarsSix of them! And these wheels aren't meant for the concrete roadways, bustling freeways, or sleepy highways-they're destined for off-roading on Mars. ...
This Month in Exploration - JulyFrom the early days of experimental airplanes to NASA's soaring space shuttles, the evolution of flight has mirrored the evolution of society. The ong...
Man in the Moon has 'Graphite Whiskers'In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite - the sooty...
Next Mars Rover Sports a Set of New WheelsNASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is sitting pretty on a set of spiffy new wheels that would be the envy of any car show on Earth. The wheels and a s...
NASA Mars Rover Seeing Destination in More DetailMars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destinatio...
NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian PastNASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping th...
New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was GlobalMinerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally...
Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)Having officially reached lunar orbit on June 23rd, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has now marked one full year on its mission to scout ...
Seventh Graders Find a Cave on MarsUsing the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, 16 seventh-graders at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found lava tubes with one pit th...
Caltech Geologist Investigates Canyon Carved in Just Three Days in Texas FloodIn the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake-the reservoir of the Canyon Dam-to flood over its spillway and down t...
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