Perseverance’s Eyes See a Different Mars
For identifying actual elements—and, more importantly, figuring out if they might have once harbored life—you need even more colors. Some
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The Mars Landing Was the Best Thing on TV This Week
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,
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NASA Lands the Perseverance Rover on Mars
In the Mission Support Area at Lockheed Martin’s campus in Littleton, Colorado, masked people sat close to computers, flying three
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How to Watch NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Landing
On Thursday afternoon, Perseverance, NASA’s most ambitious self-driving rover, will attempt the agency’s most challenging Mars landing. Perseverance is carrying
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The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars
It’s called the “seven minutes of terror.” As the 2,300-pound, six-wheeled, nuclear-powered Perseverance rover approaches Mars on Thursday, a supersonic
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February’s Gonna Be a Big Month for Mars
On February 9, the United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft is expected to enter orbit around Mars after a six-month, 300-million-mile
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NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars
For the past 15 years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been doing laps around the Red Planet studying its climate
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SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket
The Raptor engines operate at extremely high pressures, and managing these extraordinary operating conditions has been a challenge for SpaceX.
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Underground Brine Could Be a Source of Oxygen on Mars
If humans are ever going to visit Mars, they may well need to make some crucial resources while they are
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‘Keep Mars Weird’ Is a Hilarious Satire of Austin
In Neal Pollack’s humorous sci-fi novel Keep Mars Weird, young people flock to Mars in search of the ultimate party,
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