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NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits ...

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Dan Johnston, left and David Lehman, right

NASA Mars Orbiters Have New Project Managers

Two NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, both working long past their original prime missions, have new project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 lander

NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander

Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind

Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently ...

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Visualization of buried Marte Vallis channels

NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water ...

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Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide.
Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake

A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.