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NASA honors its dead Mars helicopter with a special name from Tolkien's legendarium

NASA has honored its dead Mars helicopter by naming its final resting place after the fictional location in J.R.R Tolkien's epic legendarium.

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Scientists have discovered not one, but two speeds of sound on Mars

Perseverance has recorded the audio of its laser and the Ingenuity helicopter to find the speed of sound to be 240 to 250 m/s.

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Stunning 8K photos of Mars provide insight into its past

The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has imaged the Danielson Crater again.

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The Mars Perseverance rover has a large rock stuck inside its wheels

The Mars Perseverance rover has a rock stuck inside its front left wheel, which has been there for about two weeks without issue.

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The Mars Curiosity rover has found an intricate mineral flower

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has found a diagenetic crystal cluster named the Blackthorn Salt, which strikingly resembles a flower.

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Damage to the Mars Curiosity rover could spell its end

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped images of its wheels following years of traversing the Gale Crater, showing significant damage.

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The Perseverance rover just crushed a new record on Mars

The Perseverance rover on Mars has set a new record for the longest distance covered by a rover in a Martian sol at 245.76 meters.

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Mars Curiosity rover finds potentially biological carbon signature

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has detected a carbon signature in samples from the Gale Crater, from a large proportion of carbon-12.

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Hibernation could be 'game-changing' for getting to Mars, says ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) has found hibernation could reduce the size of a spacecraft for a return trip to Mars by a third.

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Mars satellite finds water flowed more recently than first thought

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has found evidence of water flowing on the surface of Mars as early as 2 billion years ago.

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Apparent Martian groundwater may be something else entirely

Bright radar reflections seen from under the polar cap of Mars could be liquid water but may only be volcanic rock under some ice.

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Mars meteorite contains organic materials, but where'd they come from?

Analysis of Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) has determined the organic molecules found aren't of biological origin.

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Ingenuity Mars helicopter breaks milestone NASA thought 'unachievable'

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has surpassed the design team's expectations by accumulating more than 30 minutes of flight time.

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Loss of water on Mars may be due to more factors than first thought

Large swathes of water once found on Mars slowly evaporated over billions of years, and a new paper dissects factors responsible.

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NASA releases images of Mars rover seeing something no one's ever seen

NASA has released a set of images showcasing its Mars rover named Perseverance, observing something 'no one's ever seen.'

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There may just be a simple reason why Mars doesn't have surface water

A new study has found that the size of a planet may be a determing factor in whether the planet will be able to contain water.

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NASA's new Mars rover collects first sample in search for alien life

NASA's newest Mars rover to land on the Red Planet will begin to collect its first samples for its quest to find alien life.

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NASA's Perseverance rover shows us extremely HD close-up of Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has dropped a video on its Twitter page showcasing an extreme close-up of the dry Martian surface.

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1952 scientist predicted Mars would be colonized by someone named Elon

German scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun predicted back in 1952 that Mars will be colonized by someone who was named 'Elon'.

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NASA to launch another rover destined for Mars in 2020

NASA to launch another rover that will head to Mars, launches in 2020.