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A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

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NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...