New Rover Pictures Show Mars Crater “Like Mojave Desert”

  Rover Pictures Show Mars Crater “Like Mojave Desert” Images from the Mars Curiosity rover show a crater looking like the Mojave Desert, according to a NASA scientist. The rover’s cameras also reveal indentations on the pebbly surface, likely created by the spacecraft’s landing thruster jets.    

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32 planets discovered outside solar system

Thirty-two planets have been discovered outside Earth’s solar system through the use of a high-precision instrument installed at a Chilean telescope, an international team announced Monday. The existence of the so-called exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — was announced at the European Southern Observatory/Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto conference in Porto, Portugal, according to a statement issued by the observatory

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