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5 days ago · Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes. NASA’s Perseverance rover viewed these dust devils swirling across the surface of Mars on July 20, 2021. Scientists want to study the air trapped in samples being collected in metal tubes by Perseverance.
4 days ago · Science Highlights. During its approximately 23 years in orbit around Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft had beamed back more than a million images and about 150 gigabytes of data. That wealth of data has yielded an abundance of significant scientific knowledge about water ice on Mars, the composition and physical properties of the planet's ...
5 days ago · Mars - Exploration, Rovers, Astronauts: Human exploration is still decades away despite optimism when the Apollo program ended in the early 1970s that Mars exploration would soon follow. The technical difficulties of getting people to Mars and back, while challenging, are not overwhelming.
5 days ago · U.S. spacecraft successfully flew by Mars ( Mariners 4, 6, and 7), orbited the planet (Mariner 9 and Vikings 1 and 2), and placed lander modules on its surface (Vikings 1 and 2). Three Soviet probes (Mars 2, 3, and 5) also investigated Mars, two of them reaching its surface.
3 days ago · Colonization of Mars. Artist conception of astronauts working outside, near a large modular habitat. Colonization of Mars is the establishing and maintaining of control over Martian land for exploitation and particularly for the settlement of Mars. [1]
1 day ago · NASA was created in 1958 as the U.S. and the Soviet Union raced to one-up each other in feats of space exploration, and the first set of American astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, were ...
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3 days ago · The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential.
