Tag: JPL
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NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission captured this image of the red planet soon after arriving in September 2014. Credit: ISRO NASA officials want the agency’s next Mars orbiter to pull double duty as a communications relay station for a fleet of surface landers and as a trailblazer for a future round-trip sample return mission and human…
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Rover data suggest Mars crater once contained long-lived lake
This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS Scientists analyzing imagery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover believe sediments left by an ancient lake more than three billion years ago formed a towering mountain that is set to be…