MARS

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NASA's InSight will study Mars while standing still
Oct 25, 2018 (JPL)
This sedentary science allows InSight to detect geophysical signals deep below the Martian surface, including marsquakes and heat. Scientists will also be able ...
Minerals of the world, unite
Oct 22, 2018 (ESA)
Jarosite is a potassium and iron bearing hydrated sulphate. It crystallises with acidic groundwater and rain, volcanic hydrothermal activity or from evaporating...
Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study
Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)
In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature ...
The claw game on Mars: NASA InSight plays to win
Oct 19, 2018 (JPL)
NASA's InSight lander, slated to arrive on Mars Nov. 26, 2018, will be the first mission to use a robotic arm to grasp instruments from the spacecraft and relea...
Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars rover
Oct 16, 2018 (JPL)
The Mars 2020 mission is tasked with not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, but also searching for signs of past microbial ...
Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continue
Oct 15, 2018 (JPL)
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). As stated previously, it is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power faul...
Painting cars for Mars
Oct 10, 2018 (JPL)
But that's not why the Ferrari driver came to Campanella. He turned to him because John Campanella has been painting spacecraft for NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora...
Novel Technique Quickly Maps Young Ice Deposits and Formations on Mars
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
"The young ice deposits are extremely important for several reasons. First, they represent a different epoch in Mars' climate history when ice was stable at the...
Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'
Oct 04, 2018 (JPL)
Like many NASA spacecraft, Curiosity was designed with two, redundant computers - in this case, referred to as a Side-A and a Side-B computer - so that it can c...
Curiosity rover operating on backup computer during repairs to main processor
Oct 04, 2018 (UPI)
Last month, Curiosity's main computer experienced a computer glitch. The problem has prevented the rover from storing science and engineering data. By using Cur...
UCF selling experimental Martian dirt - $20 a kilogram, plus shipping
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
This is not fake news. A team of UCF astrophysicists has developed a scientifically based, standardized method for creating Martian and asteroid soil known as s...
Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
For instance, a mission's science team may want to explore certain geological sites for signs of water, life, and habitability. But engineers may find that thos...
Opportunity Remains Silent For Over Three Months
Oct 01, 2018 (JPL)
It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault. Perhaps, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault, as well. The dust storm on Mars co...
How a tiny Curiosity motor identified a massive Martian dust storm
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provided the earliest insights on May 30 when it observed an accumulation of dust in the atmosphere near Perseverance V...
Opportunity emerges in a dusty picture
Sep 26, 2018 (JPL)
A new image produced by HiRISE, a high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows a small object on the slopes of the Red Planet's...
Martian moon may have come from impact on home planet
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
The dark faces of the moons resemble the primitive asteroids of the outer solar system, suggesting the moons might be asteroids caught long ago in Mars' gravita...
NASA sees its stalled Martian robot, but still no signals
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
Thanks to a high-resolution camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA said Tuesday it can see the Opportunity rover in Perseverance Valley, on the edg...
Ancient Mars had right conditions for underground life
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
"We showed, based on basic physics and chemistry calculations, that the ancient Martian subsurface likely had enough dissolved hydrogen to power a global subsur...
Martian moon likely forged by ancient impact, study finds
Sep 24, 2018 (UPI)
Because Phobos and Deimos are dark in color, some planetary scientists believe the two Martian moons are asteroids pulled into orbit by Mars' gravity. Other res...
NASA's MAVEN Selfie Marks Four Years in Orbit at Mars
Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)
"MAVEN has been a tremendous success," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the University of Colorado, Boulder. "The spacecraft and instrument...
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