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Friday, December 05, 2025

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Curiosity Rover’s 1.8 Billion-pixel panorama of Mars

ward 10/03/2020

Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a … Read More

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Stunning flight over Mars using NASA images

ward 21/03/2017

A highly talented and possibly slightly bored fellow called Jan Fröjdman has taken lots of detailed photos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and put them together to create an amazing flyover of … Read More

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Musk to Mars, and Beyond!

ward 03/10/2016

Recently, Elon Musk talked about going to Mars. He wants humanity to be a multi-planetary species, so that we should survive a disaster. (Hopefully some other animals too – I want … Read More

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The Mars Rover

ward 28/08/2012

This is a picture of Mars. Mars! How awesome is that? This was taken by the Mars Rover – a 10 foot nuclear powered robot that is wandering around the red planet doing scientific analysis with the aid of lasers that shoot from its eyes.

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