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College Students Hatch Nuclear-Powered Magnetic Plan to Protect Marsonauts from Cosmic Rays
April 16, 2019 | ArticleA team of undergraduate students at Drake University in Iowa is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars.
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Scott Kelly's Year in Space May Have Aged Him — But He's Mostly Fine
April 11, 2019 | ArticleHow a year in space affected Scott Kelly's health.
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Watch 3 Solar Eclipses on Mars, Captured by Curiosity
April 05, 2019 | ArticleCuriosity rover captured Martian moons Phobos and Deimos crossing the sun.
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Mars Was Once Covered in Wide, Raging Rivers
March 27, 2019 | ArticleMars was very wet until suddenly it wasn't. And scientists still aren't sure why.
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Space Orbiter Spots 'Hairy Blue Spider' on Mars
March 15, 2019 | ArticleBowie was right; there really is a "spider" from Mars.
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Here's What NASA's Opportunity Rover Saw Before 'Lights Out'
March 14, 2019 | ArticleThere's a glorious panorama and a few sad thumbnails of a dark and dusty sky.
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An Exploding Asteroid Blasted Across Mars' Surface in the Last 10 Years
February 27, 2019 | ArticleSometime in the last decade, something heavy slammed into the Martian atmosphere and blasted apart into a hard rain of superheated material.
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Why Can't NASA's Curiosity Rover Rescue Opportunity?
February 14, 2019 | ArticleNASA has another mobile robot on Mars. Why not launch a rescue mission?
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What Will Happen to the Opportunity Rover's Dead Body on Mars?
February 14, 2019 | ArticleNASA's Opportunity Rover has died on Mars. Now what?
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Mars Rover Opportunity Is Dead After Record-Breaking 15 Years on Red Planet
February 13, 2019 | ArticleOne of the great exploration stories of our time is officially over.
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