exploration of mars
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NASA Needs Your Help Finding Clouds on Mars
Cloudspotting on Mars is a new initiative for the public to team up with NASA to study Mars’ atmosphere, so it’s releasing 16 years’ worth of data.
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NASA Scientists Made a Martian ‘Soundscape’ Using Audio Recorded by Perseverance Rover
NASA scientists have cut down a year of Perseverance’s audio recordings on the Martian surface to a five-hour playlist of the Red Planet’s best hits (you can listen to some here). The sounds are eerily quiet and offer a new way of exploring the Martian environment. They’ve already helped confirm some theories about the way…
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The InSight Mars Lander Mission Will End This Year, NASA Says
NASA officials announced in a press conference today that the InSight lander on Mars will likely stop operating at the end of 2022, following three years of scientific work on the surface of the Red Planet.
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NASA’s InSight Caught a Lonely Martian Sunrise
The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also collecting some fascinating scientific data on the planet’s geology.