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epa10376578 A handout photo made available by the NASA shows the first of several sample tubes deposited by NASA???s Perseverance rover onto the Martian surface on 21 December 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission (issued 22 December 2022). According to NASA, Perseverance has been taking duplicate samples from each rock target the mission selects. Based on the architecture of the Mars Sample Return campaign, the rover would deliver samples to a future robotic lander. The depot will serve as a backup if Perseverance cannot deliver its samples. EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

This 'lightsaber' on Mars is actually a really important scientific sample

Tech December 23, 2022 By Metro Science Reporter

Nasa Mars InSight

Nasa's Mars lander sends its last image with a heartbreaking farewell message

Tech December 21, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

First ever sound recording of tornadoes on Mars (EMB 4pm) (Picture: NASA)

Tornadoes on Mars heard for the first time as Nasa records 'dust devil' audio

Tech December 13, 2022 By Metro Science Reporter

Mars sleuths reckon they've found an 'alien statue' on the red planet

Tech December 1, 2022 By Jeff Parsons

Picture shows the tattoo of Elon Musk's name on Rodrigo America's forehead, undated. The resident of Venda Nova, Brazil, said it's a way to volunteer for a trip to Mars. (@rodrigoamericaoficial/CEN )

Can you top this man's bid to get Elon Musk's attention to be sent to Mars?

World November 22, 2022 By Sian Elvin

Former President Donald Trump gestures after announcing he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump promises 'beautiful American flag on Mars' if he wins second term

Tech November 26, 2022 By Jeff Parsons

Piers Morgan and Richard Osman fume over axe of the Bounty from Celebrations box

Showbiz November 3, 2022 By Lucy Norris

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Traces of an ancient ocean discovered on Mars, raising hopes for alien life

Tech October 31, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

EMBARGOED TO 1900 THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 Undated handout of an artist's impression issued by the Institute of Geophysics of a impact crater on Mars. Issue date: Thursday October 27, 2022. PA Photo. Scientists are analysing the data from two large meteorite impacts on Mars, with the aim to understand more about how the red planet formed. The space rocks crashed into the Martian surface at different times in the latter half of 2021, resulting in two large craters upwards of 130 metres in diameter. Nasa's InSight lander ??? which touched down on Mars in 2018 ??? recorded the vibrations caused by both impacts. The researchers used data from the Insight lander to determine the structure of the crust at depths of between roughly 5 and 30 kilometres below the surface of Mars. See PA story SCIENCE Mars. Photo credit should read: IPGP -CNES/N.Starter/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Centuries-old Martian mystery finally solved as scientists make 'remarkable' discovery

Tech October 27, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

Mars retrograde slows everything down - your star sign's tarot horoscope for the period

Horoscopes October 27, 2022 By Kerry King

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Ancient bugs may be lurking beneath the surface of Mars

Tech October 25, 2022 By Mark Waghorn

The Sample Fetch Rover (SFR), affectionately known as Anon, potentially destined for missions on the moon or Mars is put through its paces at a quarry in Milton Keynes. Airbus engineers' quarry testing is essential to the development process, providing a unique and dynamic landscape that cannot be replicated within the Mars Yard test facility at Stevenage, and the event marks the first time all the rover's systems are being tested simultaneously. Picture date: Thursday September 29, 2022. PA Photo. The SFR was intended to collect sample tubes left on the surface of Mars by Perseverance, but earlier this year Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) announced it would no longer be needed for this work. See PA story SCIENCE Fetch. Photo credit should read: Nina Massey/PA Wire

Space rover built for Mars has to settle for Milton Keynes

Tech October 4, 2022 By Nina Massey

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New evidence of liquid water found on Mars

UK September 29, 2022 By Sam Corbishley

See SWNS story SWNAwatch --- A company say their out-of-this-world watch is packed with real MARS dust. Belgium firm Interstellar claim the 'NASA-approved' timepiece features powdered fragments of a meteor flung from the Red Planet. Created in honour of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission, the 'NASA x INTERSTELLAR RED3.721' comes with elements of a meteorite discovered in northwest Africa in 2021. A Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and travelled through interplanetary space before landing on Earth. S?bastien Colen, Interstellar founder, explains: "The meteorites were not brought back to Earth by humans, but thanks to the law of physics."

This £450 luxury watch contains actual Mars dust

Tech September 27, 2022 By Metro Science Reporter

Mars crater rock sample

Nasa's Perseverance finds ingredients for life on Mars

Tech September 20, 2022 By Katherine Hignett

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Nasa records the first 'bloop' sounds of meteorites striking Mars

Tech September 20, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

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Apollo astronaut’s mobile has 800,000 times the memory of ship that got him to moon

UK August 20, 2022 By Josh Layton

Illustration of an oblique view of the giant Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. The Valles Marineris is over 3000 kilometres long and up to 8 kilometres deep, dwarfing the Grand Canyon of Arizona, USA. The canyons were formed by a combination of geological faulting, landslides, and erosion by wind and ancient water flows. The view is looking west, from an altitude of about 2000 kilometres, and shows the canyon filled with low-altitude fog and cloud.

Stunning Mars images reveal canyons 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon

Tech July 26, 2022 By Katherine Hignett

The image of Mars' surface showing a strange, spaghetti-like object (Credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech)

Nasa spots bizarre tangled object on Mars and offers no explanation

Tech July 15, 2022 By Jeff Parsons

EMBARGOED UNTIL TUESDAY 16.00BST/11.00ET The distribution of 90 million craters on the surface of Mars obtained from the Crater Detection Algorithm. See SWNS story SWNNrock. The world's oldest Martian meteorite has been traced to the precise crater where it originated. Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence the Red Planet was once habitable. The famous space rock found in the western Sahara formed part of a primordial crust that hosted oceans of water. Now an international team has pinpointed its exact home. They used a supercomputer to track its creation on the red planet in a province known as Terra Cimmeria-Sirenum. The location in the southern hemisphere of the planet has many gullies that could have been carved by flowing rivers. Black Beauty contains more water than other Martian meteorites. The crater Back Beauty is from has been named Karratha after a city in the Pilbara area of Western Australia renowned for its remarkably preserved rock formations.

World's oldest meteorite traced back to its crater on Mars

Tech July 12, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu