As a primordial space rock hurtled toward Earth on Sunday morning, it was protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley.
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Such a find is quite exciting, if not entirely unexpected. In the past, Curiosity and other rovers has spotted the remains of other metallic...
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The nickel-iron meteorite Heat Shield Rock has a mass of 88 pounds (40 kilograms), and the crater it likely produced has worn away since it...
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NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers are exploring new terrain on Mars every day, adding thousands of names to the Red Planet over the...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is gearing up to collect the first American asteroid sample return from space.
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Current and past Mars rovers have made similar discoveries of strange-looking rocks on Red Planet.
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Scientists have confirmed that the Opportunity Mars rover has run across a meteorite, sitting within the robot's exploration zone at...
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A strange rock with a doughnut-like shape that was discovered by Nasa's Perseverance rover on Mars is probably a meteorite that fell to the...
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this photograph of its own destroyed heat shield on December 21, 2004, at about 1:22 p.m....
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August 13, 2009. Source: NASA. This view of a rock called “Block Island,” the largest meteorite yet found NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a...
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