On February 2, 2004, NASA named individual peaks inside Mars’s Gusev crater in honor of the fallen astronauts. The peaks were spotted by the agency’s Spirit rover and are located around 1.9 miles (3 km) from the landing site.
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The retired space shuttle will look launch-ready at its new home in California.
The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.
The tool isn't a one-step solution to the complex task of mission planning, but it will be a useful in evaluating the best trajectory for each mission, the researchers say.
The tiny chip could allow spacecraft to make decisions on their own without human input.
Space archeologists suggest Venus does a better job at preserving artifacts than previously believed.