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 | NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory — aka Curiosity — will explore Gale Crater to see if the Red Planet could support life now or in the past.
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Richard Talcott //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | Earth isn’t the only planet that features rocks from space.
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Robert Burnham //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | NASA’s four martian rovers all took engineering inspiration from the Soviet Union’s 1970s Moon missions.
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Robert Burnham //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | Man’s perception of Mars has changed greatly over 5,000 years.
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Karri Ferron //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | The most capable robotic mission ever sent to the Red Planet.
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Kimm Fesenmaier //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | See even more of Wally Pacholka’s amazing landscape astrophotography.
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Bill Andrews //
Published: June 25, 2012 |
 | This famous asterism is full of beautiful deep-sky targets.
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Michael E. Bakich //
Published: June 25, 2012 |