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NASA's Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency's Mars 2020 rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA Plans to Fly Helicopter on Mars

May 17, 2018

There are two robotic rovers traversing and exploring the surface of Mars – NASA’s Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. These rovers, along with two others (Sojourner & Spirit) from past missions, use(d) specially made wheels to get around the Red Planet. Instead of just wheels NASA now wants to try a different way to travel around Mars. […]

A Gravitationally-lensed distant galaxy. (Vieira et al., ALMA (ESO, NAOJ, NRAO), NASA, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Science Scanner: Monster Galaxy; Mars Missions On Vacation

June 8, 2015

Monster Galaxy Found Near Edge of Universe A group of researchers imaged a “monstrous galaxy” – SDP.81, located some 11.7 billion light-years from Earth, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and a natural magnification method called “gravitational lensing.” The researchers used the gravity of a massive galaxy 3.4 billion light-years away to […]

GROVER Robot Provides New tool for Exploring Greenland

May 3, 2013

NASA‘s newest rover could help scientists better understand changes in the massive Greenland ice sheet. Last summer, higher-than-normal temperatures caused surface melting across about 97 percent of the ice sheet. Scientists expect the robot to detect the layer of the sheet, which is buried beneath two miles of ice, that formed after last year’s extreme […]

Forty Years Later, US Flags Remain on Moon

July 31, 2012

Some of the most iconic moments in American history occurred when the Apollo astronauts planted U.S. flags on the lunar surface in the 1960s and 70s. It’s been nearly 40 years since Apollo 17, the  final manned U.S. mission to the moon, left the last of six American flags on the its surface. What happened […]

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