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Washington: A new 1.3-billion-pixel image from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity allows viewers to zoom in and investigate one part of the Red Planet in great detail. The huge mosaic stitches together nearly 900 exposures taken by cameras onboard Curiosity and

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MARS had an oxygen-rich atmosphere more than a billion years before the Earth, scientists believe. Scientists compared Martian meteorites that have crashed on to the Earth and data from rocks examined by the American space agency, NASA's Spirit rover. Le

This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. See full panorama below. It shows Curiosity at the ';Rocknest'; site where the rover scooped up samples of windblown d

NASA has stitched together 1.3 billion pixels of Martian marvellousness, giving the world the chance to peruse a planetary panorama of unprecedented detail. Available here with pan and zoom tools thrown in, the composite comprises nearly 900 images captu

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