NASA charts path toward commercial services for Mars

This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles Marineris canyon system.

It won’t be easy for NASA to buy commercial services to support Mars exploration. The vast distance between Earth and the Red Planet poses a significant challenge, as do the […]

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