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NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars
Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars. Not life itself—hardly—but another endorsement of the ancient habitat on Mars as having been suitable for life. Perseverance has been searching for biosignatures—that is, signs of ancient life on Mars—since it landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. But the search for…
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Scream 6’s Directors Talk Ghostface’s Identity, Survivors, and More Spoilers
Scream VI is now in theatres and, as is the case with most Scream movies, much of it centres on who Ghostface is this time around. Once you figure that out though, part of the joy of the franchise is being able to watch it back and see how it all fits together. Was a…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Rolls Past Evidence of Ancient Water
For the past 10 years, the Curiosity rover has travelled across the Martian terrain, looking for clues to the planet’s potentially habitable past. Recently, the car-sized robot drove through a transition zone, going from an area that may have once hosted lakes on the surface to one that signifies drier conditions for the Red Planet.
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Perseverance Rover Images Reveal Ancient History of a Water-Soaked Martian Crater
Before Perseverance touched down in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February 2021, scientists’ understanding of crater was shaped by observations from spacecraft, like the Mars Express satellite and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But now, with an operational robot getting its wheels dirty on the ground, an interdisciplinary team of geologists and planetary scientists have been able to…