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Mars explorers are at risk of self-destruction
NASA's Curiosity can destroy its own electrical system right after activating an integrated drill to dig a Martian rock sample.
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Moon rocks 'hide' in stock
5 stones that astronauts took from the moon nearly 50 years ago
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Europe will launch 'flying refrigerators' to the universe
A spacecraft with a refrigerator-like mechanism built by the European Space Agency (ESA) will fly to space to learn Mercury.
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The Curiosity is about to sample the first stone on Mars
The Curiosity probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) prepares to take a third sample of rock on the surface of Mars after two failed attempts to analyze the viability of li…
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Discovering rocks on Mars has the same composition in Earth
After using lasers and X-rays to test a sample of Martian rock, scientists were surprised when the composition of this rock was completely different from the rocks on Ma…
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How to bring Martian stones to Earth?
The US space agency (NASA) is considering choosing a plan to bring specimens from the red planet to Earth in the next 20 years.
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First dissection of the
In fact, Mars' pyramid is a strange, pyramid-like rock. This is also the first test for the advanced analytical equipment system that Curiosity is equipped with.
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The Curiosity shoots the Martian rock
The Curiosity of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has for the first time deployed a laser device to shoot a rock on Mars, using 30 short but intense light rays.
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Discovered the twin version of the solar system
German astronomers have found a planetary system with a solar system-like distribution, with rocky planets on the inside and gas planets on the outside.
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How valuable is the rock from Mars?
In late May, a shiny black Martian rock, so small that it could fit in the palm, was sold for $ 43,750 (more than 900 million dong). This rock is part of the Tissint met…
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Secrets of strange land on the Moon
When Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, they found dust on the Moon in a state of silence for millennia. But when disturbing them, even though the Moon's g…
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The secret to helping you
With a value of up to $ 1,000 per gram, the stones from this space are always the target of many hunters. The following tips may help the process of finding them, but ke…
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Mars has been covered by water like Earth
Mars was once covered by water like ours today, according to research by scientists at Georgia Tech University (USA). One of the reasons water cannot exist on Mars today…
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The truth about 'strange objects' on the surface of Mars
Amateur astronomers have discovered a strange structure protruding from the surface of Mars. It looks like a regular rock; but it is worth mentioning that the rock is pe…
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Discovered that 9 'super-Earths' can support life
On March 23, the Southern European Observatory (ESO) reported that they had found 9