National Geographic - USA (2021-03)

Tourists walk down Duke of Gloucester Street, the main road at Colonial Williamsburg, which closed briefly last year because of ...

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National Geographic Pristine Seas is an exploration, research, education and media project founded and led by National Geographi ...

94 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MARCH 2021 FEATURES ‘FO R DECADES, INDIA AND PAKISTAN HAVE SENT YOUNG SOLDIERS TO THIS HARSH ENVIRONMENT, ...

THE DUSTY RED PLANET HAS FASCINATED US FOR CENTURIES. EVEN AS WE LEARN MORE, ITS MYSTERIES KEEP US IN SUSPENSE. Then and Now Ear ...

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Assembling Mastcam-Z Flight assembly tech- nician Olawale Oluwo of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California, holds p ...

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Eight spacecraft are operating in orbit around Mars or exploring its dusty surface. In February 2021, as of press time, three mo ...

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It’s a warm night in mid-October, and I’m winding my way up to the University of Virginia’s McCormick Observatory on a quest to ...

Visionary Technology The twin boxes seen above on Persever- ance’s mast are its main cameras, which stand six and a half feet of ...

interest in Mars is ageless. For millennia we’ve made sense of Mars by attaching our deities to it, charting its motion, and map ...

green men, and microbes, and human settle- ments, and how Mars fervor has returned after every setback. At the same time, I know ...

Sampling arm, stowed COLLECT 2021-2023 DEPOSIT MEDA atmospheric analyzer Navcams MOXIE Separation by heat and electricity Intake ...

SAMPLE TUBE ACTUAL SIZE Mars Ascent Vehicle Sample Return Sample Lander Fetch Rover Earth Entry Vehicle Earth Return Orbiter Sam ...

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ANCIENT HORIZONS In 2003 a rover found evidence that water once flowed on Mars, but early climatic conditions on the red planet ...