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In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

NASA's Mars helicopter proved so successful, the space agency is conceptualizing ... Flying on Mars is daunting. The Martian atmosphere is quite thin, with a volume about one percent of Earth ...

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Snow dots the Martian landscape in these images from ... Taken by the German-built High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter in June 2022 ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA ... This image taken in June 2022 shows the land slowly acclimating to the martian summertime — although the temperature is still –193 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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