In 2013, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover foundevidence of organic matterin rock-powder samples, and Perseverance hasdetected organics in Jezero Craterbefore. But unlike that previous discovery, this latest detection was made in an area where, in the distant past, sediment and salts were deposited ...
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NASA nominee testifies on plans for moon mission, Mars Jared Isaacman, President Trump's nominee to lead NASA, tells lawmakers the space agency can return astronauts to the moon while pursuing flights to Mars. Apr 9 Rocket carrying NASA's Jonny Kim, 2 cosmonauts docks with space station ...
A week after two space probes from China and the United Arab Emirates slipped into orbit around Mars, NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover will attempt to land on the Red Planet on Thursday. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero for a closer look at what this me...
D This summer, NASA launched its latest robot Perseverance on a seventh-month journey to Mars.During the past decades, robot explorers on Mars have made great discoveries about the red planet,but they have never found clear-cut signs of creatures currently living there. Life, at least as we...
Seismometers on the NASA InSight lander have identified unusual signals from meteoroid impacts on Mars. Impact locations were confirmed by satellite images of new craters at these sites and directly constrain the martian interior, confirming its crustal structure and ground-truthing the scaling of impa...
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has Debris Obstructing Bit Carousel After Latest Sample Collection The Perseverance rover successfully cored aMarsrock on December 29 but faced issues due to unexpected resistance in the sample transfer process, leading to discovery of debris in the bit carousel. The ...