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1,027 results for: mars mission

  1. Liquid Acquisition

    Two new scenarios ramp up debate over how Earth got its water.

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  2. Space

    Spacecraft takes express tour of Martian moon

    New images and gravity data reveal details about the origin and composition of Phobos.

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  3. We, robot: What real-life machines can and can’t do

    As director of the Maryland Robotics Center, Satyandra Gupta oversees 25 faculty members working on all things robotic: snake-inspired robots, robotic swarms, minirobots for medicine and robots for exploring extreme environments on land, under the sea and in outer space. In September the Center hosted its first Robotics Day; afterward, Gupta talked robots with Science […]

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  4. Physics

    The Ultimate Clock

    Keeping precise time on the universe’s scale.

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  5. Planetary Science

    Up close and personal with an asteroid

    The Rosetta orbiter makes its second swing past a relic of the early solar system.

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  6. Astronomy

    2010 Science News of the Year: Atom & Cosmos

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  7. Astronomy

    The Star That Ate a Mars

    COVER STORY: Scientists probe debris trapped by white dwarfs to learn more about what faraway Earthlike planets are made of.

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  8. Space

    Brines on Mars

    Unusually high concentration of perchlorate salts found in Martian soil suggests that the Red Planet may harbor shallow, extremely briny oceans just below its surface. The existence of these brines may explain a host of puzzles on Mars.

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  9. Life

    Missing chemicals on Titan could signal life

    Methane-based organisms on one of Saturn’s moons might be consuming the materials.

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  10. Space

    Panel reports on human spaceflight

    Panel suggests how to get human spaceflight program off the ground.

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  11. Space

    Heat-seeking WISE spacecraft to scan the skies

    The new instrument promises to discover millions of infrared-bright galaxies and thousands of previously unknown asteroids and brown dwarfs.

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  12. Space

    2009 Science News of the Year: Atom & Cosmos

    A post-crash plume kicked up from the moon contained vapor and ice. NASA crashed an unmanned spacecraft into the lunar surface on October 9 in order to analyze the resulting debris for signs of water. Image Credit: NASA Water on the moonThe moon isn’t bone dry: Although planetary scientists had suspected as much for years, […]

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