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TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 2010: A crush of mud finally plugs the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, three months after the offshore drilling rig explosion that unleashed one of the worst oil spills ...

Take a look back with us at the landers, rovers, and helicopter that have explored Mars.

NASA's InSight is not a rover, but it also brings and sees the neighbor planet with its cameras and brings the world a unique perspective.

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Meet the Spartan who helped NASA go to Mars (again) As a high school student, Terry Himes dreamed of exploring space. Today, the Spartan who graduated in 1975 from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering is living his dream.     “Just today, I was building the relay commands for Mars 2020, but also Curiosity and InSight,” says Himes, a spacecraft and software engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.   NASA’s Perseverance rover arrived on Mars, landing safely on Feb...

  The University of Arizona-operated High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Feb. 18 descent of NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, the latest rover to touch down on the Red Planet. In the image above, Perseverances landing capsule can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, with its parachute trailing behind. Since entering the orbit of Mars in March of 2006, the HiRISE camera, provided and operated by the UArizona Lunar Planetary ...

Mars has fascinated us for millennia. Almost from the time astronomers first turned their telescopes on the planet shining in the night sky, weve imagined life there. Unlike our other planetary neighbor, Venus, which remains shrouded in cloudy mystery, the red planet has invited speculation and exploration. Since the 1960s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union and, later, Russia and Japan, have launched spacecraft destined to land on or orbit Mars. The successful missions, like the very first Mars fly...

23 December 2020, 10:23 am EST By In this handout illustration provided by NASA/JPL, an artists conception of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Red Planet. Phoenix is slated to land on Mars on May 25, 2008.  ( (Photo Illustration by NASA/JPL via Getty Images) ) NASA has released an animation to explain and demonstrate how its one-tonne Perseverance rover will land on M...

While in grade school, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins dreamed of exploring outer space .  Later, Watkins found her passion in geology, and excelled in sports. Her life changed when she received a phone call in 2017. "I got the phone call (asking me if I) want to come down to Johnson Space Center," she said. "It was really quite a moment of realizing that (childhood) dream." Three years after joining the astronaut corps, the Lafayette native was assigned to NASAs Artemis Team, with its goal to ...