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Is NASA ready for the Red Planet? US senator's 'Mission to MARS Act' aims to modernize Johnson Space Center
Texas Senator John Cornyn announced a $1 billion MARS Act to upgrade NASA's Johnson Space Center to better support ...
First aurora photo from Mars shows green glow in the sky
Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...
NASA rover shares moody image of Mars moon Deimos
A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars. Captured using the rover's Mastcam instrument on January 17, 2025, the ...
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Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back'
"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major ...
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Scientists find hint of hidden liquid water ocean deep below Mars' surface
By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...
Museum visitors to touch part of the moon and Mars
Visitors to London's Natural History Museum will be able to touch a piece of the moon and the planet Mars at a new exhibition ...
Mars astronauts would be able to see colorful aurora lights during solar storms, scientists prove
NASA said it's likely that if astronauts had been on the surface of Mars near the rover, they would have been able to see the glowing green lights. Original article source: Mars astronauts would be ...
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NASA's Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to Jupiter
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...