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NASA Wants You To Travel To Far-Off Worlds Someday
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NASA Robot Will Explore Deep Inside Volcanoes
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Should We Put A Drone On Mars?
Concept Art Mars HelicopterNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Screenshot via YouTubeThere is only so much Mars a rover can see from the ground. A drone scout could let the rover see further, so NASA’s...
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This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars
From the moment NASA introduced its seven Mercury astronauts to the nation at a press conference on April 9, 1959, the manned program dominated more than a decade of the space agency’s activities. The...
View ArticleThese Are The Real-Life Settings Of Scenes From 'The Martian'
The Martian is easily one of the best sci-fi films out there, and part of what makes it so incredible was the intense attention to detail. The story has a pedigree of accuracy, as Andy Weir, author of...
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NASA Scientist Recommends Mining Asteroids To Build Death Stars
Screenshot by author, from YouTubeDeath Star IIDeath Stars are expensive. The fictional weapon, which defined evil in the original Star Wars trilogy, is so deadly and so massive that it’s perplexed...
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NASA Now Has A Drone That Can Sniff Out Dangerous Gas Leaks
Aviation A drone with a nose for methane This drone sniffs for methane.
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Meet The Amazing Women Who Launched America's First Rockets
Space Rise Of The Rocket Girls gives the untold story of the women behind the space race At a time when women's roles were mostly limited to housework and motherhood, the girls at JPL calculated how...
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We Took A Virtual Walk On The Martian Surface
Space NASA has a grand new simulation NASA has a grand new simulation…
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Tensions Mount As Juno Spacecraft Draws Nearer To Jupiter
Space Juno is closing in on one of the most dangerous places in the solar system The atmosphere here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is getting more excited and nervous as we draw nearer to the official...
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Watch Along With Us As The Juno Spacecraft Arrives At Jupiter
Space The mission will give us our best views yet of the baddest planet in the solar system The biggest, stormiest, most extreme planet in the solar system is about to get a new neighbor.
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Success! NASA's Juno Spacecraft Made It To Jupiter
Space Let the science begin At 8:53 pm Pacific on Independence Day, the Juno spacecraft was successfully captured into orbit around Jupiter, officially beginning the mission to further understand…
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The Woman Who Helped Us Hear Juno
Space Why is NASA’s longest-serving woman an hourly employee? On the evening of July 4th, 2016, in a quiet room in California, a 79-year-old woman named Susan Finley listened for faint tones to...
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'Future First': Explore Mars With Virtual Reality
Technology The first episode in our new series with XPRIZE Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a new video series...
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Get Your Playlist Ready: The Next Mars Rover Will Capture Sounds
Space Can you hear Mars now? What does Mars sound like? In 2020, we'll know.
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NASA Just Released More Than 1,000 New Images Of Mars' Surface
Space Here are some of our faves Since its launch in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its tagalong High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera have been orbiting the red planet…
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Check Out This Beautifully Rendered Image Of A Martian Valley
Space Mawrth Vallis, looking mighty fine Take a look at this stunning interpretation of Southern Mawrth Vallis…
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Success! NASA's Juno Spacecraft Made It To Jupiter
Space Let the science begin At 8:53 pm Pacific on Independence Day, the Juno spacecraft was successfully captured into orbit around Jupiter, officially beginning the mission to further understand…
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The Woman Who Helped Us Hear Juno
Space Why is NASA’s longest-serving woman an hourly employee? On the evening of July 4th, 2016, in a quiet room in California, a 79-year-old woman named Susan Finley listened for faint tones to...
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'Future First': Explore Mars With Virtual Reality
Technology The first episode in our new series with XPRIZE Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a new video series...
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