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Category: Curiosity

Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

Fixed nitrogen: Mars was once habitable

The Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time found evidence of indigenous nitrogen in the form of nitrate in aeolian deposits and in two mudstone deposits on the red…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: Curiosity can’t kill life on Mars

As if the news on earth weren’t depressing enough, the latest dispatches from Mars are also gloomy. It turns out the red planet doesn’t have any atmospheric methane. Earthlings longing…

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Posted on January 13, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: A year of curiosity

Curiosity — the car-sized remote vehicle with an array of sophisticated instruments — may have travelled only a little more than 1.6 km within the Gale Crater on Mars as…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

Editorial: A river ran through Mars

From finding a trail of evidence supporting the presence of water on Mars a few billion years ago, Curiosity’s discovery of subrounded or rounded pebbles provides definitive proof that the…

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Posted on January 12, 2016July 20, 2016

Rounded pebbles on Mars point to water flow

For the first time ever, scientists have been able to collect unequivocal evidence that water had once flowed on Mars some three billion years ago. Observations by NASA’s Mars rover…

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Posted on January 12, 2016April 12, 2017

Radiation risk to astronauts travelling to Mars measured

Measurements made by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on board Curiosity show that radiation in deep space poses a “significant” risk to human space travellers. During the 253-day, 560-million-km trip…

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Posted on January 12, 2016January 12, 2016

Editorial: Mars mission accomplished

Published in The Hindu on March 28, 2013 In what counts for one more extraordinary achievement in space science, the Mars Curiosity rover launched by NASA scientists has found strong…

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Posted on January 12, 2016

Editorial: Watery Mars

Published in The Hindu on February 4, 2013 Mars might have been cold and dry with a transient presence of water at the surface some four billion years ago —…

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