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At first glance at this image, youd be forgiven for mistaking it as a still from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But the photo is very much real, and was snapped by NASAs Curiosity Mars rover this week. The selfie shows the rover alongside a rock formation dubbed Mont Mercou, a nickname taken from a mountain in France. And while the photo is impressive on its own, it was actually taken to celebrate Curiositys 30th sample to date, after the rover drilled a hole at a nearby rock sample ni...

NASAs shiny new Perseverance rover has been stealing the spotlight lately, but Curiosity is still on Mars, too. This aging ...

The Curiosity rover on Mars took an epic selfie in front of ‘Mont Mercou’ Nate Schwartz © Associated Press This section of a composite image made available by NASA, produced from photos captured Feb. 21, 2021, by the Perseverance Mars rover shows the rim of Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars. It landed on Thursday, Feb. 18. While NASA’s Perseverance Rover attracted headlines after touching down on Mars in February, another rover has been hard at work on the red planet...

WAT-ER FIND! Water from huge lost oceans on Mars is STILL there – but it’s now ‘trapped’ underground, study claims Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter 17 Mar 2021, 10:56 Updated: 17 Mar 2021, 11:15 WATER that once flowed over the surface of Mars is now trapped within its crust, according to a Nasa-funded study. The Red Planet was a warm, dry planet covered in lakes and oceans until about three billion years ago, when all of its liquid bodies vanished. 4 Oceans ...

March 16, 2021 at 11:00 am An ocean’s worth of water may be lurking in minerals below Mars’ surface, which could help explain why the Red Planet dried up. Once home to lakes and rivers, Mars is now a frigid desert ( SN: 11/12/20). But measurements of atmospheric water loss made by spacecraft like NASA’s MAVEN orbiter are not enough to account for all of Mars’ missing water — which was once so abundant it could have covered the whole planet in a sea up to 1,500 meters deep. That’s mo...

Close The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has posted all of their photos, animations, and audio recordings online. Its free to look at, free to use, and a lot of fun to discover. To see what you can find, simply type in a keyword and select between pictures, audio, or video. Visitors can view their entire collection and retrieve audio recordings, images, and videos for personal purposes, such as for use in school assignments or presentations for children and adults alike.�...

Mars: NASA rover Perseverance completes first drive Moving a few meters back and forth, the short trip was a mobility test for the Perseverance rover. It comes just two weeks after touching down on the red planet. During its first test drive on Mars, Perseverance made several images of its wheels rolling through a Martian landscape The Perseverance rover hit a new milestone this week, taking its first test drive on the red planet, NASA announced on Friday. The Mars rover ventured drove 6.5 met...

By Lambert Strether of Corremte. Everybody know what mud is, right? Here’s a picture[1] of mud in season from the Bangor Daily News: The reporter writes: Mud season in Maine, sometimes called the state’s “fifth season,” generally occurs between March and late April or early May. It happens when the snow and ice start melting. All that extra water leads to a lot of mud…. The mud is deep, the texture often seems more like Jello than hardpan and the damage it can do to your car or your ...

Only about six people at the space agency knew about the encoded message before the rover's landing on Mars. A puzzle lover on the team was behind the idea.

New video and audio of the Perseverance landing goes viral – but that viral video of Mars is not what you think it is.