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NASA's Lucky Charm for a Successful Mission? Peanuts
Peanuts are popular at baseball games and bars, but did you know they’re also a mainstay at NASA?
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Mars Rover's Giant Parachute Carried Secret Message
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message.
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NASA Rover Beams Back First Sounds Ever Recorded From Surface of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded the first audio clips captured on the surface of Mars, beaming back to Earth guttural sounds of wind gusting on the red planet. The first-of-its-kind audio was released Monday, along with extraordinary new video footage of the rover as it descended and landed last Thursday. The images are among the most sophisticated yet taken of Mars,...
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First-of-Its-Kind Video Shows Rover Perseverance's Dramatic Landing on Mars
Stunning video released Monday shows the high-stakes descent of the rover Perseverance from several angles as it streaks toward the surface of Mars before a gentle touchdown.
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Maps and Images: Follow NASA's Perseverance Rover as It Explores Mars
NASA landed its fifth rover on Mars Thursday after a nearly seven-month journey capped by a 12,000-mph blast through the Martian atmosphere and a gentle touchdown.
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NASA Releases Onboard Footage of Perseverance Rover's Mars Landing
NASA shared footage captured by the Perseverance rover as it landed on Mars last week.
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Mars Landing Team ‘Awestruck' by Photo of Descending Rover
NASA has released the first close-up picture that captures a rover descending to the surface of Mars
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Photos: NASA's Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
The world is getting its first close-up look at a Mars landing after NASA released new photos of its newest rover being lowered onto the red planet Thursday.
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NASA Releases New Images of Mars
NASA released a series of images from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on Friday. Among them, the rover’s first high-resolution, full-color image of Mars.
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COVID-19 Made NASA's Mars Rover Landing a Space Mission Like None Other
NASA has faced many challenges over the years, but COVID-19 was one of the biggest. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway spoke with Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace about the “existential” threat that the pandemic posed to its Mars mission.
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Three Space Missions that Made the Mars Perseverance Rover Landing Possible
LX News host Ashley Holt visited Space Center Houston for a closer look at the space missions that made the Mars Perseverance Rover landing possible — and that will help pave the way to put a human on the red planet next.
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Timeline: Here Are the Key Moments in Perseverance's High-Stakes Mars Landing
A series of hold-your-breath moments Thursday will determine the success or failure of NASA’s Perseverance mission when the agency attempts to land its fifth rover on Mars.
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NASA's Southern California-Built Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
Watch NBCLX’s live coverage of the Perseverance rover’s landing as it touches down on the red planet and starts its mission to search for traces of ancient life.
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Touch Down! ‘Perserverance' Arrives on Mars
NASA’s latest Mars rover has made a safe landing on the red planet on a mission that will help pave the way for human visitors.
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Perseverance Succesfully Lands on Mars… So What's Next?
The car-size rover Perseverance, launched in July 2020, successfully touched down on the Mars surface Thursday afternoon becoming NASA’s fifth rover to land on the red planet. The success kicks off the agency’s most ambitious mission yet to examine whether life ever existed on Mars.
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WATCH: NASA Scientists React to Perseverance Rover Touchdown on Mars
NASA’s team of scientists who navigated the landing of rover Perseverance on the surface of Mars broke out in applause as the device made contact with the planet after being in orbit since July.
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Retired Astronaut Scott Kelly: We're on the Cusp of a New Era of Space Exploration
Retired astronaut Scott Kelly tested the limits of putting humans in space when he spent a year in orbit to test the effects on his own body. As NASA’s Perseverance rover prepared to touch down on Mars, Kelly joined LX News to talk about the goal of getting a human mission to Mars by 2030.
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NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover: How Does it Work?
NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in a feat of human engineering and science. But… how does it work? LX News host Tabitha Lipkin helps explain how the rover is built to fulfill its mission to explore Mars and collect samples to return to Earth.
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NASA to Fly Helicopter on Mars For First Time
The Perseverance Rover isn’t the only thing landing on Mars Thursday. Hitching a ride on the rover is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet.