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First Martian regolith samples: NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars

First Martian regolith samples: NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars

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Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill to collect the mission’s first regolith samples on December 2-6, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface. Unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile …

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Surprising Martian Discovery: Massive Mantle Plume Pushing Mars Surface Up

Surprising Martian Discovery: Massive Mantle Plume Pushing Mars Surface Up

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An artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large mass of hot, floating rock – rising from deep within Mars and pushing Elysium Planitia, a plain in the planet’s northern lowlands. The volcanism at Elysium Planitia originates from the Cerberus Fossae, highlighted in red, a collection of young fissures that stretch more than …

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NASA Viking 1 may have landed at the site of an ancient Martian megatsunami | CNN

NASA Viking 1 may have landed at the site of an ancient Martian megatsunami | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — When NASA’s Viking 1 lander made history as the first spacecraft to touch down on Mars on July 20, 1976, it returned images of a landscape no one expected. These early images taken …

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We may have detected new organic compounds in Martian rocks

We may have detected new organic compounds in Martian rocks

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The Perseverance rover may have just found evidence of organic compounds in the rocks of Jezero Crater. Previous studies have found evidence of organic compounds on Mars before. The Curiosity Rover and the Mars-Express the orbiter has provided proof of this, as have the data from Perseverance. None of this necessarily involves any kind of …

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Possible Organic Compounds Have Been Found In Martian Crater Rocks

Possible organic compounds have been found in the rocks of Martian craters – Astrobiology

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Mars 2020 SHERLOC Instrument: A close-up view of an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A study published in Science analyzes several rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance …

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