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Mars InSight Has One Last Job: Getting Swallowed by Dust on the Red Planet
Universe Today· 11 hours agoNow, however, it’s acting as a dust collector, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) scientists couldn’t be happier. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard MRO monitors ...
Why the US can't send humans to Mars
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoSome of the US's earliest plans assumed humans could reach the Red Planet by the 1980s. Over the decades, technology and funding challenges have hampered...
A 'planet parade' is coming, but you may have the date wrong
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe occasional comet will wow us with its bright tails. A lunar eclipse will turn the Full Moon...
Mars's Doomed Moon Phobos Might Not Be What We Thought
IFLScience· 17 hours agoMars's moons Phobos and Deimos are a little different from the other moons of the solar system. While not as strange as the Earth's possible "ghost moon" (aka a Kordylewski cloud), the moons ...
Space oddity: NASA's so-called 'dead' Mars robot is still providing data. Kind of.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoEven though, the lander cannot send images, its mere existence on the red planet continues to provide insights (no pun intended). "By studying InSight's ...
Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise
LiveScience· 6 days agoMars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally...
NASA wants to build a floating railway on the moon
Autoblog via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNASA's "Moon to Mars" project aims to establish a human settlement on the surface of the moon and ultimately reach the Red Planet. Making it happen...
Everything to Know About the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission: What it's Done, What's Next
Sci Fi Wire· 4 days agoIn 1979, George Miller imagined a rust-colored post-apocalyptic landscape populated by rugged...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn approaching the Red Planet, Psyche will shut down its ion engines and allow itself to get caught...
Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoModeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine...
