mars rover
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See a Rover’s Day on Mars in 10 Seconds
What were you doing on November 8, 2023? I couldn’t say for myself, but I can tell you what NASA’s Curiosity rover was doing: sitting still on its 4,002nd day on Mars, taking snapshots of the Martian surface. Now, mission team members at Jet Propulsion Laboratory have stitched together two series of frames from the…
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What’s This Weird Balancing Rock on Mars?
My colleague noticed something strange in the latest batch of photos from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover: A roundish rock appears to be carefully balanced atop a jagged outcrop. How did that get there?
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Clouds On Mars: Just Like Regular Clouds, Only Rainbow
The Curiosity Rover has sent back a series of photos of some exquisite Mars cloud coverage, so enjoy as a little afternoon treat. Due to its thin, dry atmosphere, Mars rarely sees cloudy days like we have here on Earth, which makes it all the more exciting when we occasionally get a glimpse of an…
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Perseverance: The Mars Rover Searching for Ancient Life, and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build it
Every two years or so, when Mars passes close to Earth in its orbit around the Sun, conditions are right to launch a spacecraft to the red planet. Launches during this period can complete the seven-month voyage using a minimum of energy. We are in the middle of one such period right now, and three…