Mars Sand

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  NASA, China Rovers Find Signs Of Soaked Sand Dunes, Rushing Rivers On Mars

  While China's rover investigated the dune soakings, Perseverance explored the remains of a powerful torrent.

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  China Breaks Silence Over Status Of Stationary Mars Rover Zhurong

  China's fully robotic rover on Mars, in longer-than-expected hibernation since May 2022, likely met with excessive accumulation of sand and dust, its mission designer said, breaking months of silence about the status of the vehicle.

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  NASA Spacecraft Captures "Unusual" Circular Sand Dunes On Mars

  This image shows frost is absent from the landscape.

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  NASA Explains What "String-Like" Like Material Found On Mars Surface Is

  The image of a "bundle of string" captured by Perseverance rover last month in Mars' crimson sand is likely a Dacron netting, American Space Agency NASA said in a blog post.

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  Mars' Blue Ripples Shed Light on Wind Behaviour on the Red Planet's Surface

  NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an intriguing picture of Mars. Taken near the centre of the Gamboa Crater on the Red Planet, the image features some blue ripples on the planet with red surface. According to NASA, the picture is called a false-colour image that helps scientists learn about the weather and geology.

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  What’s It Like to Be on Venus or Pluto? We Studied Their Sand Dunes and Found Some Clues

  A new study has explained how sand dunes can provide insight into weather and conditions one might experience while standing on a far-off planetary body. For dunes to exist, planets should pass a pair of “Goldilocks” criteria. The presence of such dunes on Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, Triton (Neptune’s largest moon) and Pluto have given new hop...

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  NASA Rover Makes "Accidental Zen Art" As It Drives On Martian Surface

  NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a stunning image of Martian rocks spread across a swathe of barren land. Some of the rocks appear covered by sand, suggesting it was quite windy just before the rover captured the image.

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  Curiosity Rover's Five-Year Journey Across Mars In One Stunning Photo

  After 1,856 Martian days among blue sunsets, sand dunes and small, lumpy moons, the Mars rover Curiosity sat on the ridge of an ancient lake bed and looked back on its five-year-long journey so far.

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  Chile Desert Combed For Clues To Life On Mars

  Chile's Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand -- but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars.

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  Nasa's Curiosity Rover Sends Super Cool Selfie From Mars

  The rover has been investigating a group of active sand dunes for two months, studying how the wind moves and sorts sand particles on Mars.

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  Nasa's Curiosity Rover Tastes Scooped, Sieved Sand on Mars

  Curiosity has scooped up sample material at only one other site since it landed on Mars in August 2012.

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  Curiosity Rover Tastes Scooped Sand For First Time On Mars

  At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on the Red Planet.

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  Nasa Maps Sand Dunes on Mars

  The HiRISE camera aboard Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter often takes images of Martian sand dunes to study the mobile soils.

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  NASA Maps Sand Dunes on Mars

  A new image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a resistant and highly fractured surface among sand dunes on the red planet.

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  Nasa's Curiosity Rover Captures Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars

  Similar-looking petrified sand dunes are common in the US southwest.