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NASA's Mars rover makes 2nd attempt to pick up rock sample
Science | Sep 03, 2021, 07:41 PM ISTAfter 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 | Jul 02, 2021, 10:01 PM ISTNASA'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 | Apr 10, 2021, 07:48 AM ISTNASA'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 | Feb 23, 2021, 12:06 PM ISTThe 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 | Feb 20, 2021, 08:12 AM ISTThe 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 | Feb 19, 2021, 01:00 PM ISTThe 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 | Feb 19, 2021, 01:02 PM ISTA 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 | Jan 31, 2021, 05:05 PM ISTLaunched 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 | Jul 31, 2020, 06:13 PM ISTNASA'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 | Jan 15, 2020, 02:23 PM ISTThe 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 | Nov 13, 2019, 02:39 PM ISTNASA'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 | Dec 09, 2014, 11:12 AM ISTWashington: 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 | Dec 04, 2012, 03:43 PM ISTWashington, 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