Best Space Photos of the Week – Sept. 18, 2015

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars

Credit: Mars, curiosity, mount sharp, mars photos, mars surface, stimson, aeolis mons

A new panorama from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows petrified sand dunes stretching across the landscape of Mount Sharp on Mars. [Read the whole story. ]

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Awesome SpaceX Images Show How Its Dragon Spaceship Will Land on Mars

Credit: SpaceX (via Flickr as SpaceX Photos)

A gallery of gorgeous new images shows a cone-shaped space capsule shooting like a meteor through the atmosphere of Mars, and descending quickly toward…Read More » the surface before its thrusters set it down gently in the middle of a rocky, uninhabited landscape. The human crew prepares to set food on the Red Planet. [Read the whole story. ]    Less «

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