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The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet, Sotheby’s says. It measures nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches.
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Mars Wasn’t Always Dry: It Once Had Rivers Spanning Over 15,000 KilometersMars, the Red Planet, may have been much wetter in the distant past than scientists ever imagined. A groundbreaking discovery ...
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
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The first close-up images of Mars still elicit wonder, 60 years after they were capturedMariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
For decades, scientists have theorized about how Mars reached its current state. Many believe that the Red Planet's surface ...
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Happy anniversary, Mariner 4! NASA probe got 1st-ever up-close look at Mars 60 years ago todayAfter its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...
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