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Returning the first samples from a Martian moon: Inside the science of Japan's bold MMX mission to Mars
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Japan to launch spacecraft on a mission to get samples from a Martian moon
Japan is preparing a historic spacecraft mission to retrieve physical samples from a Martian moon.
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Japan to launch Martian moon mission on Tuesday | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan prepares a historic, world-first spacecraft launch targeting a Martian moon for Tuesday.
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Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chap
Zhurong rover discovers gypsum crystals on 760-million-year-old Martian terrain that may contain sealed pockets of ancient brine.
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Of the roughly 400 Martian meteorites ever found on Earth, none has been dated to the window between 600 million and 2.4 billion years ago — until a rock found in Algeria in 2019 was confirmed this month as 1.273 billion years old, sitting precisely in th
A Martian meteorite found in Algeria fills a massive billion-year gap in the planet's history, according to recent scientific coverage.
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Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn
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Somewhere in the dried bed of an ancient Martian river, the Perseverance rover has been drilling into rocks for more than four years — and last June, NASA scientists announced that two of them contain the same complex carbon-based molecules that form th
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Our 1st-ever up-close look at the Martian surface photo of the day for July 22, 2026
NASA celebrates 50 years of Mars exploration with the release of the first-ever close-up photo of the Martian surface.