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'Building blocks of life' found on Mars
The texture of 'volcanic rocks' on Mars can help reconstruct geological periods, especially the period when Mars was flooded - also the period when the Red planet is tho…
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ESA probe detects water near the surface of Mars
ESA's ExoMars spacecraft discovered 'a significant amount of water' hidden under the Martian surface in the Grand Canyon system.
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China will build a nuclear furnace 100 times more powerful than NASA's to explore the Moon, Mars
China is developing a powerful nuclear reactor for its mission to explore the Moon and Mars, researchers involved in the project say.
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For the first time, experts have mapped the Martian subsoil
Experts map the Martian subsoil by listening to the sound of wind bouncing off layers of soil and rock near the equator.
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Extraterrestrial supervolcano shoots rocks all the way to Earth
A large portion of the 317 Martian meteorites that have fallen to Earth may have come from the eruption of the alien supervolcano Tharsis 1 million years ago.
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NASA robot captures unusual sunset on Mars
The Martian sunset in the new image of the Perseverance robot does not have the usual blue color because the atmosphere contains less dust.
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Top 8 destinations that promise a boom in Mars tourism in the future
Mars is a planet of spectacular contrasts - the largest giant volcanoes in the solar system, the deep valleys.
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NASA releases video of mini-reconnaissance plane flying over Mars
Ingenuity, a small powered and piloted rover, continues to set new records in its exploration of Mars.
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Mars specimen contains blue minerals found on Earth
The green mineral olivine in the latest specimen collected by the Perseverance robot is abundant in the Earth's mantle.
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NASA finds new form of 'building blocks of life' on Mars?
A new technique performed by Martian warrior Curiostiy has helped uncover traces of the previously unknown building blocks of life on this mysterious planet.
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90 days on Mars by Chinese probe
China's Zhurong probe has spent three months on Mars, completing exploration and discovery missions as planned.
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NASA robot captures Mars moon at an altitude of 23,458km
The Perseverance robot observed Deimos, Mars' 12.4-kilometer-wide moon, on the rare occasion of pointing the camera up at the sky.
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'Mars creature' is something that appeared on Earth in the 19th century?
Objects in NASA's early images of the surface of Mars - round structures thought to be lower organisms, others to be rocks - may be hydrohematite.
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China issues a set of 3 gold and silver coins to celebrate the first Mars exploration mission
To celebrate the success of its first mission to orbit and land on Mars, China has released a new set of gold and silver coins.
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Artificial intelligence only takes 5 seconds to detect a new crater on Mars
While NASA scientists need up to 40 minutes, artificial intelligence can analyze a picture of the Martian surface in just 5 seconds.