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OTD In Space – January 25: Opportunity Rover Lands On Mars
NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the red planet ...
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Canada's first moon rover will soon have a name as it prepares to explore a hostile lunar region
In keeping with the spirit of collaboration in space ... outpouring of grief when Oppy—the nickname given to NASA's Opportunity rover—was declared "dead" in 2019. The European Space Agency ...
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Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Water Ripples on Mars, Hinting at a Past With Shallow, Ice-Free Lakes
The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...
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Twenty years after landing: How NASA's twin rovers changed Mars science
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thanks in part to the science collected by Spirit and Opportunity, NASA approved development of the SUV-size Curiosity rover to investigate whether the chemical ...
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NASA Rovers Are Finding Human-Made Debris On Mars. This Is Why It’s Treasure, Not Trash
A similar fate is in store for the Ingenuity helicopter as well as China’s Zhurong rover, which is now exploring Utopia Planitia. NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped ...