Sources: BBC
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NASA's "Perseverance" rover captures its first images of interstellar object 3I-ATLAS as it passes by Mars. 2025-10-2
Four volunteer NASA crew members finish the first 378-day Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission to simulate living on Mars at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, United States. 2024-07-7
NASA awards Lockheed Martin a contract to build a next-generation "Mars Ascent Vehicle" to return the first rock samples from Mars to Earth in the 2030s. 2022-02-8
NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars. 2019-06-24
U.S. Congress passes a bill that mandates NASA send humans to Mars by 2033. 2017-03-8
NASA successfully launches its MAVEN space probe on a mission to study Mars' atmosphere. 2013-11-18
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures. 2013-01-19
NASA announces new plans to launch another Curiosity-like robotic science rover to Mars in 2020. 2012-12-4
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