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Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...
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Mars Seen Up Close in Stunning World First 60 Years Ago Today
As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...
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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were captured
Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
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A dead Mars may have been inevitable – and the Sun is to blame
New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...
We may finally know what happened to the water on Mars
New research might finally help us understand what happened to the water on Mars and rewrite everything we know about the Red ...
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The first Mars close-up
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?
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Why does Mars look purple, yellow and orange in ESA's stunning new satellite image?
Despite being known as the Red Planet, Mars shows off its swirling yellows, oranges and browns in a new satellite photo from ...