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Long Ago, Mars Had Massive Watersheds — Now Finally Mapped
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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China. Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution. With an area of about 49
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For decades, building a space mission meant a hard choice between two imperfect models. The first was the traditional prime: capable, proven, and thorough, but slow and expensive. Customers paid
Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three Martian dust devils can be seen near the rim of Jezero
ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in
Europe’s plans to develop a robotic lunar lander are moving ahead with the announcement of an Italy-led consortium that will build a key element of the spacecraft designed to secure
The first test flight of Landspace’s Zhuque-3 rocket ended in a fiery explosion after successfully reaching orbit. Chinese company Landspace launched its 216-foot (66-meter) stainless steel Zhuque-3 rocket from the
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