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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...
The HiRise camera is living up to its name, capturing a rare look at the veteran rover from way up in Martian orbit.
"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...
New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.
Mars may once have had a relatively warm and wet climate conducive to flowing water, rain and snow, producing a terrain much ...
Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...
Space exploration has been a defining feature of human ambition for decades. From the first satellite launch to our goal of ...
Eagle-eyed users on the internet have spotted a triangular tower located in Area 51 on Google Earth, and the internet is ...
This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...
The moon is pretty close relatively speaking to the earth, but Mars is way out there, much further away, and you have to try to launch missions to it when the Earth and Mars are closer to each other.
Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics ...