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Following the successful landing of NASAs Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars, the SuperCam operational teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) received the first results showing that SuperCam is in good health and giving its first impressions of the crater.

As a youngster growing up on a farm near Canora, Tim Haltigin, son of Linda Osachoff, had plenty of opportunities to look up in amazement at the seemingly endless prairie sky. Haltigin later . . .

Winnipeg Free Press Stephanie Connell never grew out of her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. Stephanie Connell never grew out of her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. While the 29-year-old student has a long way to go before venturing into outer space, she came one step closer last week — when the Perseverance rover landed on Mars. "I was watching it from my living room, on my laptop … sweating," she recalls of the moments Thursday, leading up to the successful spacec...

KAAL-TV Created: February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (AP) - NASA is attempting its toughest Martian touchdown yet. The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is headed Thursday for a compact 5-mile-by-4-mile (8-kilometer-by-6.4-kilometer) patch on the edge of an ancient river delta on Mars. Its filled with cliffs, pits, sand dunes and fields of rocks, any of which could doom the $3 billion mission.   The expedition to the red planet will search the once submerged terrain for evidence of past ...

The rover will search the Red Planet for potential evidence of past life and will also gather samples. It will return to Earth after 10 years.

NASA continues to test the RS-25 engines that will send astronauts atop the Artemis rocket, known as the Space Launch System, to the moon.

Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at the Carnegie Institutions Geophysical Laboratory have shown for the first time that building blocks of life formed on Mars early in its history. Previously, scientists have thought that organic material in ALH 84001 was brought to Mars by meteorite impacts or more speculatively originated from ancie...

>> if you watched the grammys last night you know it was a soulful tribute to whitney houston. one performer there still too shaken up to sing and well talk about all the winners from last night. a massive budget battle. an election preview. it seems to be. the president is unveiling his final spending plan before the 2012 election today. and you know what, its mot even delivered to capitol hill and the gop is already on it. what are they going to say about it and how do we know this...

where is it going inspect its headed to mars. this is one of the latest and the most ambitious missions by mars. it will be looking for life on the red planet. john zarrella will be joining me here in just a moment. were only a minute away here, john. i want our viewers to be able to hear mission control here in a second. were just a minute away and, actually, im going to go ahead. john, you stand by for me. when this takes off, well be talking about this ambitious mission. over the to...