NASA Rover's Newest Rock Sample Is a Gift From an Ancient Martian River

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For more than two years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been roaming Mars, drilling for rock samples that may hold clues to ancient life on the Red Planet, but the six-wheeled robot can only travel so far. Luckily, the rover recently got some extra help from a river that once flowed on the surface of Mars.

NASA's Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars

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Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars.

Up-close photos of the Martian moon, Deimos, are forcing scientists to rethink how it formed in the first place

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Illustration of Mars on the left, Mars' moon Phobos near the center, and Mars' moon Deimos on the far right.

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Watch how SpaceX launched Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, on its first orbital flight

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Starship minutes before the launch attempt that was aborted on April 17, 2023.

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Elon Musk's prized Starship mega-rocket exploded into a fireball on its first attempt to launch into space

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Starship and its Super Heavy booster explode while tumbling through the air, in a SpaceX livestream on April 20, 2023.

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See inside NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat where 4 volunteers will live for a year. It includes a gym, PlayStation 4, and a lot of red sand.

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Lead associate professor of industrial and organizational psychology Suzanne Bell, and advanced food technology lead scientist Grace Douglas speak to members of the media during a media tour of the Mars Dune Alpha, NASA's simulated Mars habitat, being used as preparations for sending humans to the Red Planet, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, U.S. April 11, 2023.

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When, where, and how to see the rare alignment of 5 planets in the night sky this month

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Top to bottom: Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will align like this in late March. This image is not to scale. Images of the planets have been overlaid on the sky to show their order.

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Relativity Space made history by launching the first 3D printed rocket into space. Here's how the company aims to beat Elon Musk to Mars by 2024.

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A photomontage shows Terran 1 ready to launch on its launchpad next to a picture of the rocket's trajectory after launch.
Terran 1 launched on March 22, 2023, but failed to reach orbit.

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These Upcoming Rockets Have Us Stoked About the Future of Spaceflight

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Humans have been launching rockets to space for nearly 80 years, yet it feels as though we’ve only hit the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s possible. These upcoming rockets provide a promising glimpse of what we can expect during the next era of spaceflight.

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Ghostly photos from NASA's Curiosity rover reveal beautiful, rare clouds and the first sun rays ever spotted on Mars

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A sunset on Mars captured by the Curiosity rover.

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