Space probe makes crucial Mars fly-by
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Europe's unmanned Rosetta space probe flies within 250km of Mars on its 10-year journey to land on a comet.
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LONDON - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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The most powerful spacecraft ever sent to Mars has settled into a nearly circular orbit, a move that allows scientists to begin studying the planet in unprecedented detail, NASA said Tuesday.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about 126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past the closest planet to the sun.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Layers on Mars are yielding history lessons revealed by instruments flying overhead and rolling across the surface.
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Before its death, Mars Global Surveyor captures images of  water flowing on the surface of the red planet. In Gear Factor.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft this month is set to surpass the record for the most science data returned by any Mars spacecraft.
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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NASA has made its Mars rovers even smarter with computer upgrades beamed through space that give the robots greater power to act on their own on the red planet.
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Two Indiana University scientists have been tapped to help build two miniaturized instruments for NASA's next Mars rover mission, a traveling laboratory that will search for signs of past or present life.
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NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments inside the giant crater a month after reaching the edge of the crevasse.
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Images from a European space probe reveal recent glacial deposits and lava flows on Mars that suggest the red planet is more active than many scientists had thought.
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Building on the success of the two wheeled geologists that arrived at Mars in January, 2004, NASA has begun planning a new rover mission to the red planet - the Mars Science Laboratory.
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From 100 million miles away, 14 workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory  take turns daily planning the routes, work schedules and areas to be explored by the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as they make their way across the Martian surface.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about  126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on  Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past  the closest planet to the sun.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity has arrived at its first stop inside an expansive crater, where it is poised to reach out and touch what may be the ancient remains of the red planet&#39;s surface, mission managers said Wednesday.
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Nasa says its robot rover Spirit has made one of its most significant discoveries on the surface of Mars.