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Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its longest drive yet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or "head," of NASA's ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
Perseverance also relies on its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) instruments to ...
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Finally, Perseverance's SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) studied the rock ...
Later, the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) instruments took a crack at Kenmore ...
The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride.
If future discoveries reveal that exotic environments are far more habitable than previously thought, if we find rogue planets teeming with life or discover that alternative biochemistries vastly ...
Scientists Propose Deliberately Infecting Another World With Life To See What Happens A new paper proposes a peculiar experiment on Enceladus (and warns why we probably shouldn't do it).