MARS

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Planet-Encircling Dust Storm of Mars shows signs of slowing
Aug 15, 2018 (JPL)
Dust-lifting sites have decreased and surface features are starting to emerge. There are indications that the atmospheric opacity might be decreasing over the O...
Still no change in Opportunity's status
Aug 08, 2018 (JPL)
As reported last week, the planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is showing indications of peaking and perhaps decaying. Dust lifting sites have decreased in ext...
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers power generator for Mars 2020 Rover
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) will supply electrical power to the rover as it traverses the red planet, collecting samples for...
Sorry Elon Musk, but it's now clear that colonising Mars is unlikely
Aug 06, 2018 (The Conversation)
Undeterred, Musk took a first step towards his aim in February this year with the launch of a Tesla roadster car into an orbit travelling beyond Mars on the fir...
Russia Plans to Send Capsule With Microorganisms to Mars
Aug 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
The project will be carried out as part of the Bumerang mission, which reproduces Russia's attempted Fobos-Grunt mission. "Now as part of the Bumerang project -...
Mars Dust Storm May Have Peaked
Aug 03, 2018 (JPL)
Dust lifting sites have decreased in extent and some surface features are starting to become visible. The storm has sustained high atmospheric opacity condition...
Students can now build their own rover model
Aug 02, 2018 (JPL)
With the successful past and current rovers, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California built a mini-rover ("ROV-E") to engage the public.This rov...
Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 15 years
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
"The Red Planet and Earth haven't been this close since 2003, and won't be again until 2035," NASA said. Astronomers around the world trained their telescopes o...
Scientists looking for ways to grow crops on Red Planet
Jul 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
Indeed, generating a stable supply of food poses a major challenge given the exorbitant cost of sending resources from Earth, the scientific journal Universe wr...
Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology
Jul 31, 2018 (SPX)
However, Mars does not retain enough carbon dioxide that could practically be put back into the atmosphere to warm Mars, according to a new NASA-sponsored study...
Evidence of subsurface Martian liquid water bolstered
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
A paper published in the June 25 issue of Science says that data collected, by the MARSIS orbital radar sounder on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spac...
Life on Mars: Japan astronaut dreams after lake discovery
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
"I was so excited about the news," the 41-year-old doctor told AFP in an interview on Friday, calling it "a major discovery that inspires dreams". International...
Space experts worry US won't make it to Mars by 2030s
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
President Donald Trump has touted a goal of sending Americans to the Moon again for the first time since the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, building a ...
Mars Express Detects Liquid Water Hidden Under Planet's South Pole
Jul 26, 2018 (ESA)
But the climate has changed significantly over the course of the planet's 4.6-billion-year history and liquid water cannot exist on the surface today, so scient...
Mars Passes Closest to Earth Since 2003 on July 31st
Jul 26, 2018 (SPX)
This is the closest Mars has come to us since August 27, 2003, when the separation was 34,646,418 miles. On that date, the Red Planet was closer to Earth than i...
Liquid water lake discovered on Mars
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
Located under a layer of Martian ice, the lake is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, said the report in the US journal Science. It is the largest body of liqu...
Opportunity Continues in a Deep Sleep Beneath Raging Dust Storm
Jul 25, 2018 (JPL)
The storm has sustained high atmospheric opacity conditions over the Opportunity site for several weeks. The last contact with the rover was on Sol 5111 (June 1...
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Discover Why Mars Is So Dusty
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
A study published in the journal Nature Communications found a chemical match between dust in the Martian atmosphere and the surface feature, called the Medusae...
Is Mars' Soil Too Dry to Sustain Life?
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
The Atacama Desert is one of the Earth's environments that comes closest to the parched Martian surface. But the Atacama isn't uniformly dry. When traveling fro...
NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Finds That Stolen Electrons Enable Unusual Aurora on Mars
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Auroras flare up when energetic particles plunge into a planet's atmosphere, bombarding gases and making them glow. While electrons generally cause this natural...
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