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Mars helicopter Ingenuity phones home, breaking 63-day silence
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has phoned home after 63 days of silence, and all appears to be well with the little rotorcraft.
NASA's Curiosity rover snaps extremely detailed 'postcard' of Martian landscape after waking up from a 'brain-boosting nap'
By Harry Baker published
The new panorama snapped by NASA's Curiosity rover combines photos from two different times of day to create a highly detailed image of the Red Planet.
How to watch Mars photobomb the buzzing Beehive Cluster of stars this week
By Jamie Carter published
Here's how to watch the Red Planet swoop across the Beehive Cluster — one of the closest star clusters to Earth — after sunset this week.
Bizarre Martian 'book' spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover
By Harry Baker published
The rover spotted a tiny Martian rock that looks eerily like a fossilized book on the surface of the Red Planet.
China's malfunctioning Mars rover may have found evidence of recent water on the Red Planet
By Joanna Thompson published
Data from China's unresponsive Zhurong rover suggests that Mars had snow and frost as recently as 400,000 years ago.
1st-ever close-up photo of Mars' moon Deimos reveals the Red Planet's violent past
By Briley Lewis published
A satellite from the United Arab Emirates revealed that Mars' moon Deimos is made of the same material as the Red Planet itself, hinting at an ancient collision.
NASA's Perseverance rover loses its hitchhiking 'pet rock' after more than a year together on Mars
By Harry Baker published
The rover has finally lost a pesky rock that had become lodged in its front left wheel "like a pebble in its shoe." The stone had accompanied the rover for more than half its time on the Red Planet.
Bizarre sand dunes on Mars are 'almost perfectly circular,' and scientists don't know why
By Sascha Pare published
A high-resolution camera mounted on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped pictures of unusual, almost perfectly circular sand dunes on the Red Planet's surface.
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