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NASA manages to produce oxygen on Mars | Science & Tech News
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NASA has produced enough oxygen on Mars to sustain an astronaut for a few hours in a world-first experiment. The Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet in February 2021, has been periodically burning through the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide to generate small amounts of oxygen for more than two years. Using a device no…
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NASA’s Mars rover finds surprising mud cracks that hint planet once supported life | Science & Tech News
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has made a surprising discovery that may have cracked how the red planet once supported life. The car-sized robot, which touched down on the surface back in 2012, found an array of well-preserved ancient mud cracks suggestive of past wet and dry seasons. It’s long been theorised that persistent Earth-like weather…
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Mars is spinning faster – scientists aren’t sure why | Science & Tech News
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Mars is spinning faster and it’s gradually cutting short the length of each Martian day, scientists have found. The red planet is accelerating at about four milliarcseconds per year, bringing the days to a close a fraction of a millisecond earlier. As those measurements would suggest, the changes are subtle – but the scientists who…
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NASA releases stunning ultraviolet images of Mars | Science & Tech News
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NASA has shared two stunning ultraviolet images of Mars. The pictures, taken by the space agency’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission, were taken at different points along the planet’s orbit of the sun. One was snapped in July 2022 and one in January 2023, when the planet was at the near opposite end…
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Summer solstice: How you can catch a glimpse of Mars and Venus in the sky | Science & Tech News
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Signalling the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the start of winter below the equator, the summer solstice is here. It will take place on Wednesday 21 June at 15:57 BST. It marks the longest day and shortest night of the year, and 2023 is expected to bear witness to a solstice gathering…
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Most detailed images of Mars’ moon Deimos unveiled | Science & Tech News
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The most detailed images of Mars’ moon Deimos have been unveiled after a probe flew just 100km (62 miles) from its surface. The “unprecedented” high-resolution pictures, captured by the UAE Space Agency during a series of flybys, include a glimpse of areas on the far side of the moon which have never been observed in…
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Mars shines bright in night sky as it vanishes behind moon | Science & Tech News
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Skywatchers have been treated to the spectacular sight of Mars disappearing behind the moon. The event, which astronomers call an occultation, happened last night and was visible from parts of the US, northwestern South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. Similar to a lunar eclipse, when the Earth is positioned perfectly between the moon and the…
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‘My power is really low’: NASA set to lose contact with Mars InSight spacecraft after four years | UK News
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This may be the last ever image sent from NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft. After a four-year mission on the red planet, the robotic lander – which famously snapped the first “selfie” ever taken on Mars – is powering down. Thick windblown dust has covered InSight’s solar panels, with NASA expecting to lose contact with the…
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Asteroid strike triggered 250-metre mega-tsunami on Mars, scientists believe | Science & Tech News
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A mega-tsunami on Mars could have been triggered by an asteroid strike similar to the devastating blow that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The giant wave, measuring up to 250 metres in height, was created about 3.4 billion years ago by the impact of an asteroid or comet in a shallow ocean…
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Planetary rover destined for missions on the Moon or Mars undergoes test in Milton Keynes | Science & Tech News
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A planetary rover that could end up being used to build habitats on the Moon or explore the surface of Mars has been put through its paces at a quarry in Milton Keynes. The Sample Fetch Rover (SFR), affectionately called Anon, was originally built to collect sample tubes left on Mars by another rover called…