How NASA's Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...
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How 3D printing will help astronauts survive on the moon and Mars
They will enable long-term human presence on the Moon and Mars. On Earth, 3D printing can fabricate, layer by layer, ...
NASA's rover Curiosity finds biggest known organic molecules on Mars
The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...
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3D printing will help space pioneers make homes, tools and other stuff they need to colonize the moon and Mars
Still, manufacturing things in space is a challenge. In the microgravity of space, or the reduced gravity of the moon or Mars, materials behave differently than they do on Earth. Decrease or ...
Musk explains how industry can be built on Mars: 'You start with mining'
Mars was always going to be the destination after Moon. If you told people in 1969 that by 2025 we hadn't even returned to ...
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Mars has huge amounts of water hidden beneath its surface — and perhaps life too
Mars might hold enough subsurface water to cover its surface in a global ocean between 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) ...
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We finally know how NASA is going to get its Mars samples back
One of those objectives is to gather Mars material samples and prepare them for eventual return to Earth. The rover itself can’t accomplish that second half of the task, but now we know how NASA ...
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Study uncovers source of Mars' redness — a key indicator the planet (maybe) once had life
“This material likely formed during water activity on early Mars,” Loeb said. “Subsequently, Mars became as dry as we see it today, preserving this mineral phase over its surface. The ...