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  NASA's Mars rover makes 2nd attempt to pick up rock sample

  Science | September 03, 2021 19:41 IST

  After completing its second coring, Perseverance manoeuvred the corer, bit, and open end of the sample tube in order to be imaged by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument.

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  NASA's self-driving Mars Rover begins search for signs of ancient life

  Science | July 02, 2021 22:01 IST

  NASA's self-driving six-wheeled robot on Mars -- the Perseverance rover -- is set to start an epic journey across a crater floor to seek signs of ancient life, the US space agency said on Friday.

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  NASA's Mars Helicopter to make first flight attempt tomorrow

  Science | April 10, 2021 7:48 IST

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity's first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. 

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  NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’

  Science | February 23, 2021 12:06 IST

  The Perseverance rover landed last Thursday near an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient microscopic life.

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  Mars landing team ‘awestruck’ by photo of descending rover

  Science | February 20, 2021 8:12 IST

  The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered onto the dusty red surface.

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  Perseverance: 10 things to know about NASA's most advanced Mars rover

  Science | February 19, 2021 13:00 IST

  The American space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet Mars' equator called Jezero.

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  NASA rover lands on Mars, to look for signs of ancient life

  Science | February 19, 2021 13:02 IST

  A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.

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  NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars next month

  Science | January 31, 2021 17:05 IST

  Launched on July 30 last year, the rover is currently closing that distance at 2.5 kilometres per second, NASA said.

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  Mars 2020 rover mission healthy and on its way: NASA

  Science | July 31, 2020 18:13 IST

  NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, which is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth, is healthy and on its way after experiencing some technical difficulties, the US space agency said.

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  NASA Mars rover will soon get its name. Semifinalists in 'Name the Rover' contest shortlisted

  Science | January 15, 2020 14:23 IST

  The nine finalists will talk with a panel of experts, including Glaze, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, NASA JPL rover driver Nick Wiltsie and Clara Ma, who proposed the name for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, as a sixth-grade student in 2009. The grand prize winner will be announced in early March 2020.

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  NASA's Mars 2020 rover will hunt for signs of past ancient life

  Science | November 13, 2019 14:39 IST

  NASA's scientists have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the Mars 2020 rover will land on February 18, 2021. The agency which is set to send its rover next year to the Mar has found that Jezero Crater, where the rover will land on February 18, 2021; can show some signs of ancient life, according to a paper published in the journal Icarus.

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  Curiosity discovers huge lake bed on Mars

  World | December 09, 2014 11:12 IST

  Washington: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered evidence of the existence of a huge lake - once brimming with water and may be life - in the Gale Crater at Mount Sharp.The discovery, led by

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  Curiosity finds whiff of possible life on Mars

  World | December 04, 2012 15:43 IST

  Washington, Dec 4: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found tantalising clues that life may have once existed on the Red planet, but scientists said it was too early to make much of the first soil