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Mars Rover Scientists Say They're Sitting On A Discovery For The 'History Books'
The scientists in charge of NASA's Curiosity rover are sitting on some exciting, but not-yet-confirmed news, NPR's Joe Palca reports. The major discovery involves the biggest instrument on the Mars...
View ArticleElon Musk: I'm Going To Put Humans On Mars In 12 Years
In a chat with the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he aims to put a human on Mars within 15 years. Here's the quote:"I'm hopeful that we'll be able to send our...
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A Story From 2010 Reveals How Over-Hyped NASA's Latest Mars Finding Could Be
The science and space communities were abuzz yesterday when an essentially "non-news" item made the news — Mars Curiosity rover scientist John Grotzinger is excited about some findings that he can't...
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Massive Dust Storm On Mars Jeopardizes The Longest-Running Mars Rover
The weather on Mars has been unusually dusty this past week, which could pose an issue for NASA's aging rover, Opportunity, which is going on nine years exploring Mars' Endeavour crater. On Nov. 10,...
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Elon Musk Wants To Put 80,000 People On Mars
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps...
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Martian Caves Could Hold Signs Of Life
NASA is mapping out a strategy to return bits of rock and soil from the Martian surface to Earth, but the most intriguing Red Planet samples lie in underground caverns, some scientists say.The space...
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Why Saturn's Moons Look Like Pac-Man
Ever wonder what happened to Pac-Man? Turns out, he and the missus may have retired to Saturn. OK, not really. A new image of Saturn's moon Tethys shows the old video game favorite, and a second Saturn...
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The Missing Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Were Found In A Really Strange Place
Minnesota really needs to take better care of its moon rocks.On Monday, the Minnesota National Guard announced that it found moon rocks from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission in the storage area of a St. Paul...
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Scientist Dashes Hope Of Aliens Landing On Earth In One Sweeping Statement
Dr. John Mather, a Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, answered questions on Reddit in an "Ask Me Anything" today. One question Mather tackled was on common misconceptions about outer...
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Scientists Find The Biggest Black Hole Ever
The biggest black hole blast ever found blasts out 400 solar masses of material per year, and is five times more powerful than any other scientists have ever seen. The blast is so large it spreads...
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ICE FOUND ON MERCURY
Mars is not the only planet making headlines these days.Observations made by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mercury for more than a year and a half, reveals evidence of water ice...
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South Korea Cancels Rocket Launch With Just 17 Minutes Left On The Countdown...
With just 17 minutes left on the countdown clock, South Korea called off plans to launch their first research satellite into orbit on Thursday. This is the nation's third failed attempt to shoot a...
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NASA Will Set The Record Straight About 'Earth-Shaking' Mars Rover Findings...
Today is the big day.NASA will announce some results from the Mars Curiosity rover at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco at 12 p.m. EST.There has been a lot of build-up to the news...
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Here's What The Mars Rover Found In Its First Analysis Of Martian Soil
After fully analyzing samples of soil on Mars for the first time, NASA scientists announced that the Curiosity rover found traces of water, sulfur, and chlorine, but they are not necessarily of Martian...
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These Are The 5 Most Over-Hyped Mars Discoveries
NASA has been trying to dampen expectations for an upcoming Mars announcement after rumors abounded that the agency's Curiosity rover discovered something big."Rumors and speculation that there are...
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Chief Mars Rover Scientist Learns A Tough Lesson About The Internet
John Grotzinger is the chief project scientist on NASA's Curiosity rover, a one-ton robot that is about four months into its two-year mission to see if the Mars was ever able to support microbial life....
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Voyager 1 Hits A Region Of Space We Didn't Know Existed
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has reached a new region at the edge of the solar system called the "magnetic highway." This is exciting because scientists think it is the final region...
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Astronauts Could Survive Radiation On Mars, But That's Not The Biggest Threat
Measurements from the Curiosity rover's onboard radiation detector, called RAD, show that radiation levels on Mars would allow an astronaut to survive for a little less than two years on the Red...
View ArticleNASA Will Send A Second Curiosity Rover To Mars In 2020
A second Curiosity-like rover will touch down on Mars in 2020, John Mace Grunsfeld, announced today at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. Grunsfeld is a Management Astronaut...
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The OTHER Mars Rover Is Still Sending Back Awesome Images
The latest findings from NASA's Mars rover, Opportunity, were recently presented at the 45th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.Opportunity was launched...
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