Anthropologists push for cataloging Martian debris as valuable artifacts
Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...
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Mars is littered with junk. Historians want to save it.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS Holcomb, whose team authored the paper proposing a Mars catalog in Nature Astronomy this week, is most worried about sand dunes. "The Spirit Rover ...
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Artifacts on Mars Could Help Track Humanity’s Expansion into Space Similar to Earthly Archaeology, Researchers Say
According to the study authors, Mars has planet-wide sandstorms that can cover the entire globe and localized dust storms ...
Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
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Mars News
New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate ...
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OTD In Space – January 3: Spirit Rover Lands On Mars
NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...