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# The Red Planet

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2022
Mars set to be visible next to the full moon tonight
The planet will be “extremely bright to the naked eye” from this evening.
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Nov 11th 2022, 2:22 PM
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China lands spacecraft on Mars for the first time
A rover will join an American craft which arrived at the red planet in February.
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May 15th 2021, 10:58 AM
Nasa unveils new video and audio captured by Perseverance as it landed on Mars
The agency also released new images the rover took on the Martian surface.
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Feb 22nd 2021, 9:42 PM
WATCH: Spacecraft blasts off in new mission to search for life on Mars
The key goal is to analyse methane, a gas which is created in large by living microbes.
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Mar 14th 2016, 11:39 AM
In pics: Missions to Mars through the years
As NASA lands a new exploratory probe on Mars, TheJournal.ie takes a look back over previous Mars missions…
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Aug 6th 2012, 7:45 AM