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These 5 Planets Will Be Visible to the Naked Eye This Month
Five planets will be visible to stargazers without a telescope beginning this weekend and lasting through the end of June.
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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Takes Incredible Photos of Perseverance Debris on Mars
NASA says its Ingenuity helicopter recently discovered and surveyed the wreckage of the equipment that helped land the “Perseverance” rover mission on Mars in 2021.
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Spots Wreckage of Rover Landing Gear
The interplanetary photo op was conducted earlier this month by the helicopter, NASA reported.
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China Plans Crewed Moon Mission, Tourism and Jupiter Exploration in Space Race With the U.S.
China has had some notable space successes in the past few years including sending an uncrewed mission to Mars and starting construction of its own space station.
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Through 20 Years in Space, He Saw Climate Change Happen
Costa Rican American astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz saw the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the pollution of the world’s oceans happen over 20 years in trips to space. These days, after making history as the first Latino astronaut to go into space, Chang-Díaz is working on plasma propulsion, a project which could be ready in a few years and drastically...
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China's Mars Rover Soldiers on After Completing Program
China’s Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for whether it once supported life
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Want to Pretend to Live on Mars for a Year? NASA Is Hiring
The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian exploration mission complete with spacewalks, limited communications back home, restricted food and resources and equipment failures.
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Here's What Marsquakes Are Telling Us About the Red Planet's Core
The findings are based on about 35 marsquakes registered by a French seismometer on NASA’s InSight stationary lander, which arrived at Mars in 2018.
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What to Know When Venus, Mars and the Moon Throw a Celestial Block Party Tonight
Venus and Mars will appear close together, something frequent stargazers might have noticed happening gradually during July. On Monday night and into the early hours, the two planets will be at their closest distance to one another.
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China Once Said It Couldn't Put a Potato in Space. Now It's Eyeing Mars
China has achieved some notable feats recently including an uncrewed mission to Mars and sending astronauts to its own space station.
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Here's How NASA's Perseverance Rover Took a Selfie on Mars
The selfie NASA’s Perseverance rover took on the surface of Mars on April 6 was actually 62 images stitched together by JPL scientists to look like one. The process involved over a dozen people and took about a week to code.
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China Plans to Send Its First Crewed Mission to Mars in 2033 and Build a Base There
Space is an area China wants to lead as part of a broader technology battle with the U.S. NASA plans a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.
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Photos Show Chinese Rover on Dusty, Rocky Martian Surface
The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos the rover took on the red planet
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Glitch Leads to Turbulent Ride for NASA's Mars Helicopter
On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes
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China Lands on Mars in Major Advance for Its Space Ambitions
China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest step forward for its ambitious space program
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History-Making Mars Helicopter Still ‘Safe and Healthy' After Failing to Lift Off
Mars mission team members are trying to figure out what happens next after a tiny experimental helicopter failed to get off the ground during its fourth attempt to fly over the Martian surface.
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‘Ingenuity' Takes Flight: NASA Launches Chopper on Mars
NASA launched a solar-powered helicopter on the surface of Mars Monday morning.
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Takes Flight, 1st for Another Planet
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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NASA Flies and Lands Helicopter on Mars, the First Flight on Another Planet
NASA successfully conducted the first controlled flight on another planet on Monday — its Mars helicopter Ingenuity flew a short flight above the red planet.
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Perseverance Rover's Helicopter Touched Down on Mars. Here's What Happens Next
A milestone moment years in the making is coming up in April when a tiny helicopter is expected to launch from the Perseverance rover and take flight above the surface of Mars.