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Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...
After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...
Mars, the Red Planet, may have been much wetter in the distant past than scientists ever imagined. A groundbreaking discovery has revealed more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds in Mars’ ...
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.
The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometres of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...
Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...
They could one day join his imagined Martians, which weren’t meant to be taken any more literally than the maps of Mars he analyzed for “The Planet Mars.” His world was an example of what ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s ...