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My hope and passion is to assist in designing the nuclear thermal propulsion engine that will take a crewed mission to Mars. Conventional chemical propulsion systems use a chemical reaction ...

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Amid the mundane pebbly terrain of Mars' surface, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spotted something remarkable: a strange, striped object the agency is now calling the "zebra rock." Perseverance, ...

In an unexpected find, NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled upon a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, dubbed 'Freya Castle', which has generated widespread excitement both within the scientific ...

NASA has taken to its blog to share a discovery by its Mars rover that has piqued the interest of researchers for its uniqueness. NASA writes in its blog post that the rock is called "Freya Castle ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. When Mars lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, it transformed from a planet that could have supported life into a cold desert world.

Perseverance spots a zebra-striped rock on Mars named Freya Castle The rock may have formed from igneous or metamorphic processes NASA aims to study similar rocks during the Crater Rim Campaign ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, last week, spotted a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, amazing the scientists and the internet alike. The rock is said to be “unlike any seen” on the planet before.