NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way

The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic ...
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UC Berkeley and NASA prepare twin satellites — could rewrite what we know about Mars

The quiet hours before a rocket launch always carry a sense of hope, especially when a mission aims to answer old questions ...

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...
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Mars orbiter spies 'barcode' aftermath of rare Red Planet avalanche caused by meteoroid impact

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...
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NASA's InSight lander records first sound of wind on Mars

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency ...