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In this animated video, discover the SuperCam instrument, developed by teams from the CNRS, the CNES and their French and international partners, and embarked on the Perseverance which landed on Mars on 18 February, 2021.
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Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moonwalk, scientific instruments deployed on the Moon's surface continue to supply valuable data to scientists. Using these reflectors...
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After abolishing slavery, the French government compensated... the slave owners! A team of historians is uncovering new complexities of France's painful past.
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