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The wind, the sand and the water: a new explanation for the phenomenon of sand dunes on Earth and Mars

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Gallons = small waves. A new international study led by Ben-Gurion University has challenged the prevailing theory that different physical conditions allow the development of galleons that do not exist on Earth
A simulation of Gale Crater filled with a lake of water, as the researchers estimate it was about 3.5 billion years ago. Source: NASA.

Mars used to have salt lakes similar to those on Earth

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The intensification of the dust storm on Mars as photographed by the Mars rover Curiosity located inside Gale Crater and looking at the crater wall. The photos were taken during June 2018

The Martian dust storm becomes a global phenomenon

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

For the first time, boron was found on Mars, a discovery that strengthens the possibility that life existed on it in the past

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"Selfie" photo taken by Curiosity. In the background you can see Mount Sharp which stands in the center of Gale Crater, and Curiosity is currently climbing to its upper layers. To take selfies, Curiosity uses a camera mounted on its robotic arm, and takes pictures of itself from many angles. The images are then edited into a single image in Photoshop. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Five years since Curiosity landed on Mars

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The area in Gale Crater where Curiosity searched for carbonate minerals. Source: NASA.

The Curiosity rover adds to a mystery that has plagued Mars explorers for years

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The Mars rover to be launched in 2020. Image: NASA

NASA unveiled a spacecraft that will search for life on Mars

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An unmanned helicopter shows the way to the Mars rover. Image: NASA/JPL

A drone helicopter will fly ahead of the Mars rover to allow it to travel further

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The meteorological station installed on the Mars rover Curiosity. Photo: NASA

NASA: We found clues to the existence of salt water in a liquid state under the surface of Mars

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XNUMXD visualization of Gale Crater on Mars as seen from space. Photo: NASA/JPL

The discovery that the crater on Mars where Curiosity landed was a lake increases the possibility of extraterrestrial life

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Caption: The Mars rover Curiosity in a self-image using the MAHLI camera, while six in an area of ​​flat sedimentary rock known as John Klein, where the robot took the first soil sample in the Yellow Knife Bay basin on February 8, 2013 (Sol or Madimai Day 182) in the lower front part of composition. The photo attachment also includes raw materials taken on Sol 177 - February 3, 2013 by the arm camera of the vehicle responsible for the background. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Marco Di Lorenzo/KenKremer (kenkremer.com).

The Curiosity Mission: An Inside Look

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A "selfie" image of the Curiosity vehicle at the end of April 2014. The image was composed of dozens of images taken by the camera at the end of Curiosity's robotic arm. Photo: NASA

Curiosity marks a full Martian year since its landing

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Spirit took this composite image on Madimai Day (Sol) 1,202 (May 21, 2007), when he was exploring an area east of the elevated plain known as the "Home Plain" in the Columbia Hills. The attachment shows an area known as "Gertrude Wise", where you can see Spirit's wheels digging into the sand. The furrow revealed a patch of silica that also contains a name. The source of the material may be from an environment of hot springs or an environment known as fumaroles where an acidic stream bubbles up through cracks in the ground. In any case, its creation must involve water, and on Earth, both of these types of currents contain microbial life. Photo: NASA/JPL

A decade since the landing of Spirit and Opportunity - the Mars vehicles that changed the face of research

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Self-portrait of Curiosity. Photo: NASA

New light on the possibility of life on Mars

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Caption: The Mars rover Curiosity in a self-image using the MAHLI camera, while six in an area of ​​flat sedimentary rock known as John Klein, where the robot took the first soil sample in the Yellow Knife Bay basin on February 8, 2013 (Sol or Madimai Day 182) in the lower front part of composition. The photo attachment also includes raw materials taken on Sol 177 - February 3, 2013 by the arm camera of the vehicle responsible for the background. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Marco Di Lorenzo/KenKremer (kenkremer.com).

Curiosity did not discover methane on Mars, what does this mean in terms of the chance for life?

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The orbit of the Curiosity robot on Mars in its first year of operation. Photo: NASA, JPL

Curiosity marks a year on Mars

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Pebbles may indicate the location of an ancient stream on Mars * And is NASA playing cat and mouse on Mars with UFO enthusiasts?

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

Rolling on Mars

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This is a self-image of the Mars rover Curiosity made up of 66 images taken by the MAHLI arm node during Curiosity's 177th Mars mission on February 3, 2013. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity exited safe mode after two days

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In the center of the image taken by Curiosity, you see a hole in the rock known as "John Klein" where the vehicle performed the first drilling on Mars. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity drilled for the first time in hard Madymai rock

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

2012 – a fascinating scientific year!

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The third (left) and fourth (right) excavations, each 4 centimeters wide, of Martian soil dug by Curiosity's excavation arm in October 2012. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Complex molecules containing water and sulfur and chlorine compounds have been discovered on Mars. However, NASA says that no organic substances were discovered

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In the photo: a series of excavations in a small area on Mars that was nicknamed the "Rocknest" (Rocknest). The excavations were done using Curiosity's excavation device that collected samples for testing inside the vehicle at the SAM facility, which is designed to search for signatures of organic molecules - the building blocks of life. The colorful mosaic was pieced together from high-resolution images taken on days 74 and 93 of the mission. Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS/Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo

Could NASA announce the discovery of organic molecules on Mars?

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The first sand collection point collected.

Curiosity: Two months on Mars

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Pictured: NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of a stream channel that flowed on Mars at several sites, including the rock outcrop depicted in this image, which scientists named 'Hoota' after Lake Hoota in Canada's Northwest Territories. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ MSSS

Curiosity found a channel where water once flowed on Mars

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