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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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NASA Spacecraft Captures "Unusual" Circular Sand Dunes On Mars
This image shows frost is absent from the landscape.
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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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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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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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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.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured large-scale inclined bedding structures on Mars - characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes and then cemented into rock.
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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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NASA Spacecraft Captures "Unusual" Circular Sand Dunes On Mars
This image shows frost is absent from the landscape.
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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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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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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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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.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured large-scale inclined bedding structures on Mars - characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes and then cemented into rock.
