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  First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA chief

  March 13, 2019 14:54 IST

  "It is also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," Bridenstine said during a recent interview on the science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday."

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  NASA proposes budget of $21 billion to reach Moon, Mars. Read details

  March 12, 2019 17:57 IST

  Aiming to put astronauts back on the Moon, reach Mars and beyond, NASA has proposed a budget of $21 billion -- nearly six per cent more than last year -- to the Donald Trump administration.

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  Mars orbiter finds first evidence of ancient groundwater system on Red Planet, say scientists

  March 04, 2019 14:47 IST

  Many craters contain multiple features, all at depths of 4000 to 4500 metres -- indicating that these craters once contained pools and flows of water that changed and receded over time.

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  Weak spots for NASA's manned Mars mission revealed

  February 18, 2019 18:56 IST

  NASA has formalised plans to send a crewed spacecraft to Mars, a journey that could involve 250 million miles of travel, said researchers from the Northwestern University in the US.  

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  NASA declares end of Opportunity rover's mission on Mars

  February 14, 2019 6:54 IST

  The rover last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover's location on Mars. It has not been heard from for eight months since then.  

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  NASA's Opportunity rover might have 'died' on Mars: Scientists

  January 28, 2019 11:25 IST

  "Over the past seven months, we have attempted to contact Opportunity over 600 times,” said John Callas, project manager for Opportunity at the JPL.

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  NASA's Opportunity rover completes 15 years on Mars

  January 25, 2019 16:14 IST

  NASA's golf-cart-sized Opportunity rover has completed 15 years of its touchdown on the surface of Mars, the US space agency said.

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  Human mission to Mars 'stupid': Astronaut

  December 25, 2018 11:06 IST

  Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon has said that it is "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars.

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  NASA's InSight lander places first instrument on Mars

  December 21, 2018 6:35 IST

  New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian dusk, according to the InSight team on Thursday.  

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  NASA's InSight sends back first selfie on Mars

  December 13, 2018 13:20 IST

  In addition, InSight sent another set of mosaic composed of 52 individual photos.

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  NASA's Mars lander takes selfie from above with robotic arm

  December 12, 2018 7:04 IST

  The InSight lander snapped a series of pictures that NASA turned into a stunning mosaic, released on Tuesday.  

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  NASA's Mars InSight lander flexes its robotic arm with reach of nearly 2 metres

  December 07, 2018 17:01 IST

  Over the past week and a half, mission engineers have been testing these instruments and spacecraft systems, ensuring they are in working order.

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  Planet Earth working on 3 Mars landers to follow InSight

  December 02, 2018 9:19 IST

  NASA’s InSight spacecraft touched down on the sweeping, red equatorial plains Monday, less than 400 miles (640 kilometers) from Curiosity, the only other working robot on Mars.  

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  NASA InSight landed 4 degrees tilted on Mars

  December 02, 2018 7:17 IST

  Early last week, InSight touched down on a lava plain named Elysium Planitia on the Red Planet.   

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  NASA's Insight spacecraft successfully lands on Mars after six-month journey

  November 27, 2018 16:30 IST

  The lander sent signals indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface, InSight mission team said in a statement.   

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  NASA's Mars CubeSat success paves way for launch of smaller planetary probes

  November 27, 2018 14:30 IST

  The mission objectives of the two small Mars Cube One (MarCO) which relayed InSight's telemetry was completed after their Martian flyby, NASA said in a statement.

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  'Touchdown confirmed': NASA's InSight spacecraft lands on Mars to probe red planet's interior

  November 27, 2018 7:39 IST

  Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA's first Mars landing since the Curiosity rover in 2012 and the first dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars.

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  NASA Mars InSight lander mission to teach us more about Earth

  November 25, 2018 18:47 IST

  It is going to use seismometers to study the planet's interior so we can learn more about how it formed and why it's so different from Earth, BBC reported on Sunday.  

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  ESA probe beams unveils Mars landscape shaped by water, wind and ice

  November 25, 2018 15:38 IST

  Lying at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere, the region is an example of past activity on the planet.  

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  NASA's new Mars rover InSight set to unveil story of solar system's origin

  November 25, 2018 9:28 IST

  By studying the preserved heart of Mars, InSight can teach us how our solar system’s rocky planets formed 4 1/2 billion years ago and why they turned out so different.