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Month: July 2017

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July 25, 2017 Philip Sams

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RSS Latest News – NASA's Mars Exploration Program

  • Mars Scientists Investigate Ancient Life in Australia
    Teams with NASA's Mars 2020 and ESA's ExoMars practiced hunting for fossilized microbial life in the Australian Outback in preparation for their Red Planet missions.
  • NASA's Mars 2020 Will Hunt for Microscopic Fossils
    A new paper identifies a ring of minerals at the rover's landing site that are ideal for fossilizing microbial life.
  • With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen
    For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars.
  • NASA's Mars 2020 Heads Into the Test Chamber
    In this time-lapse video taken at JPL, engineers move the Mars 2020 rover into a large vacuum chamber for testing in Mars-like environmental conditions.
  • Screening Soon: 'The Pathfinders' Trains Lens on Mars
    With the Mars 2020 mission ramping up, the documentary — the first of four about past JPL missions to the Red Planet to be shown at Caltech — tells a gripping backstory.
  • Common Questions about InSight's 'Mole'
    There's a new plan to get InSight's "mole" moving again. The following Q&As with two members of the team answer some of the most common questions about the burrowing device, part of a science instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3).
  • InSight's 'Mole' Team Peers into the Pit
    Efforts to save the heat probe continue.
  • New Selfie Shows Curiosity, the Mars Chemist
    The NASA rover performed a special chemistry experiment at the location captured in its newest self-portrait.
  • Mars 2020 Stands on Its Own Six Wheels
    In time-lapse video, taken at JPL, captures the first time NASA's Mars 2020 rover carries its full weight on its legs and wheels.
  • Naming a NASA Mars Rover Can Change Your Life
    Want to name the robotic scientist NASA is sending to Mars in 2020? The student who named Curiosity — the rover currently exploring Mars — will tell you this is an opportunity worth taking.
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