Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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The name of the Martian region of Utopia Planitia roughly translates as "plains of paradise." It turns out it could be a paradise indeed for astronauts, as a frozen ice deposit holding as much water as Lake Superior, the largest of North America's Great Lakes, was recently found beneath the soil.
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As the search for life on Mars moves further underground, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found another promising place to look: a strange formation that could be the remains of an ancient “ice cauldron” that would have provided a warm, chemical-rich, life-friendly environment.
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NASA scientists have discovered that three powerful dust storms which occur each Martian year could pose a hazard to astronauts undertaking a mission to the Red Planet.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered evidence of ancient volcanoes on the surface of the planet, that are believed to have erupted under a sheet of ice.
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NASA has released a new gravity map for Mars, stitched together from telemetry data collected by a trio of spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet over the course of 16 years.
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The latest batch of images beamed back to Earth from NASA's Mars Orbiter has offered an up-close look at the real-world setting for the film The Martian. The photos detail several Mars sites that appear in the film's fictional missions to the Red Planet.
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Fresh observations of surface features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) appear to have confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars. The evidence of surface water has implications for future manned mission to the Red Planet.
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NASA's InSight Mars lander isn't scheduled to touchdown for over a year, but the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is already moving into a new orbit to provide communications support during the landing.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has found deposits of glass present on the Red Planet that may provide a fresh avenue for investigating the question of whether life ever existed on there.
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Lost since 2003, the UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander has finally been discovered on the Martian surface by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). No signal was received from the lander following its expected landing time, and the robotic explorer was feared destroyed.
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According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.
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After a dramatic, one-in-a-million-years close encounter between Mars and comet Siding Spring on Sunday, all five functioning US Mars probes survived, and are returning valuable data on the comet.
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