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Water 20 km Below Mars Surface? What Study Shows And What It Means
Water is considered essential for life, and geological studies show the planet's surface had lakes, rivers and oceans more than 3 billion years ago.
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NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet
NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission ...
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NASA Retires InSight Lander After 4 Years On Mars
NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.
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NASA's InSight Lander Captures Stunning View of Sunrise on Mars
NASA's InSight Mars lander captured a stunning view of a sunrise on the Red Planet, giving space enthusiasts an idea of what watching the run rise on Mars could look like. InSight is NASA's first mission to study the interior of Mars — its crust, mantle, and core — in depth and has completed its mission of spending one Martian year on the plane...
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China Prepares for Chang’e 5 Probe’s Return With First Moon Samples in Over 45 Years
Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 45 years.
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NASA Mars InSight Lander, Meant to Study Planet's Interior, Launches From California
The NASA Mars InSight probe lifted off from the central California coast at 4:05am PDT (3:35pm IST).
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To Detect 'Marsquakes', NASA Spacecraft Set For Rare California Launch
After decades exploring the surface of Mars, NASA is set for the weekend launch of its first robotic lander dedicated to studying the red planet's deep interior, with instruments to detect planetary seismic rumblings never measured anywhere but Earth.
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Images Indicate European Mars Lander Destroyed: Space Agency
Images taken by a NASA Mars orbiter indicate that a missing European space probe fell to the Red Planet's surface from a height of 2 to 4 kilometres (1.2 to 2.5 miles) and was destroyed on impact, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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Mars Lander Has Likely Crashed, Scientists Fear
A European and Russian robot that was supposed to touch down on Mars on Wednesday probably crashed during landing.
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Schiaparelli Lander Reaches Mars Surface but Final Fate Uncertain
Spacecrafts in Mars orbit relayed data of the lander's 6-minute descent, but the transmission stopped after that, leaving questions over what state the Schiaparelli probe was in.
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Anxious Wait For Mars Lander's Fate, Giant Pune Telescope Was Last To Receive Signal
A mega Indian telescope bank near Pune received the last signal sent from an ambitious European Space Agency mission to put a lander on the planet Mars.
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Europe's ExoMars Schiaparelli Lander on Course to Descend on Mars
ExoMars's primary goal is to find out whether life has ever existed on Mars. The current spacecraft, TGO, carries a probe to study trace gases such as methane around the planet.
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Long-Lost Space Probe Found on Mars: UK Space Agency
The Beagle 2 lander "has been found partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending the mystery of what happened to the mission."
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Nasa's InSight Mars Lander to Probe Planet's History
After 6.5 months in transit, the craft will attempt a landing in the southern Elysium region of the Red Planet in September 2016.
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US, France sign deal for 2016 Mars lander
The United States and France on Monday unveiled plans to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet.
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Water 20 km Below Mars Surface? What Study Shows And What It Means
Water is considered essential for life, and geological studies show the planet's surface had lakes, rivers and oceans more than 3 billion years ago.
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NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet
NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission ...
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NASA Retires InSight Lander After 4 Years On Mars
NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.
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NASA's InSight Lander Captures Stunning View of Sunrise on Mars
NASA's InSight Mars lander captured a stunning view of a sunrise on the Red Planet, giving space enthusiasts an idea of what watching the run rise on Mars could look like. InSight is NASA's first mission to study the interior of Mars — its crust, mantle, and core — in depth and has completed its mission of spending one Martian year on the plane...
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China Prepares for Chang’e 5 Probe’s Return With First Moon Samples in Over 45 Years
Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 45 years.
-
NASA Mars InSight Lander, Meant to Study Planet's Interior, Launches From California
The NASA Mars InSight probe lifted off from the central California coast at 4:05am PDT (3:35pm IST).
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To Detect 'Marsquakes', NASA Spacecraft Set For Rare California Launch
After decades exploring the surface of Mars, NASA is set for the weekend launch of its first robotic lander dedicated to studying the red planet's deep interior, with instruments to detect planetary seismic rumblings never measured anywhere but Earth.
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Images Indicate European Mars Lander Destroyed: Space Agency
Images taken by a NASA Mars orbiter indicate that a missing European space probe fell to the Red Planet's surface from a height of 2 to 4 kilometres (1.2 to 2.5 miles) and was destroyed on impact, the European Space Agency said on Friday.
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Mars Lander Has Likely Crashed, Scientists Fear
A European and Russian robot that was supposed to touch down on Mars on Wednesday probably crashed during landing.
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Schiaparelli Lander Reaches Mars Surface but Final Fate Uncertain
Spacecrafts in Mars orbit relayed data of the lander's 6-minute descent, but the transmission stopped after that, leaving questions over what state the Schiaparelli probe was in.
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Anxious Wait For Mars Lander's Fate, Giant Pune Telescope Was Last To Receive Signal
A mega Indian telescope bank near Pune received the last signal sent from an ambitious European Space Agency mission to put a lander on the planet Mars.
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Europe's ExoMars Schiaparelli Lander on Course to Descend on Mars
ExoMars's primary goal is to find out whether life has ever existed on Mars. The current spacecraft, TGO, carries a probe to study trace gases such as methane around the planet.
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Long-Lost Space Probe Found on Mars: UK Space Agency
The Beagle 2 lander "has been found partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending the mystery of what happened to the mission."
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Nasa's InSight Mars Lander to Probe Planet's History
After 6.5 months in transit, the craft will attempt a landing in the southern Elysium region of the Red Planet in September 2016.
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US, France sign deal for 2016 Mars lander
The United States and France on Monday unveiled plans to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet.
