MARS

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Name Europe's robot to roam and search for life on Mars
Jul 23, 2018 (ESA)
Due to launch in 2020, the UK-built rover is part of ESA's ExoMars mission. It will investigate how Mars has evolved and whether there may be conditions for lif...
'Storm Chasers' on Mars Searching for Dusty Secrets
Jul 23, 2018 (JPL)
For the Opportunity rover, that meant a sudden drop in visibility from a clear, sunny day to that of an overcast one. Because Opportunity runs on solar energy, ...
Opportunity's Science Team Remains Vigilant
Jul 19, 2018 (JPL)
The storm has sustained high atmospheric opacity conditions over the Opportunity site for several weeks without any change. There is no indication at this time ...
Martian Atmosphere Behaves as One
Jul 19, 2018 (ESA)
However, the tenuous atmosphere Mars has retained remains complex, and scientists are working to understand if and how the processes within it are connected ove...
Undergrad Mines Data from Curiosity Rover in Search for Life
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
Gordon Downs is the only undergraduate at the UA assigned by the Mars Science Laboratory science team as a collaborator. Researchers are working to determine if...
Seasonal 'spiders' emerge on Mars' surface
Jul 16, 2018 (UPI)
"Araneiform terrain" is the scientific term for the surface spiders. They appear as the sun returns to Mars' South Pole. As the warm solar rays heat the surface...
NASA May Have Destroyed Evidence for Organics on Mars 40 Years Ago
Jul 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
Back in 1976, NASA's twin Viking landers touched down on Mars to find out if life could survive on Mars and whether there was organic matter in the Martian soil...
Scientists Discover Ghost Dunes On Mars
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
Ghost dunes are the negative space left behind by long-vanished sand dunes. Lava or water-borne sediments partially buried the dunes and hardened, preserving th...
UK space sector set to benefit from new European Space Agency contract
Jul 09, 2018 (SPX)
The sample fetch rover will retrieve samples left by NASA's Mars 2020 rover and transfer them to an ascent vehicle. This will put them into orbit about the plan...
NASA listens out for Opportunity everyday
Jul 09, 2018 (JPL)
Again, since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is likely that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, putting herself to sl...
Airbus wins two ESA studies for Mars Sample Return mission
Jul 09, 2018 (SPX)
After launching to Mars in 2026, the Mars Sample Fetch Rover will retrieve Mars samples left by the Mars2020 rover. This NASA rover will leave 36 pen sized samp...
Mars to Pamper Gazers With Stunning Sight Amid NASA's Dust Storm Concerns
Jul 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
Although it generally occurs nearly every two years, this year is unique, as in light of a Martian year being almost twice as long and both planets orbiting mor...
Top 10 Teams Selected in Virtual Model Stage of NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
The current stage (Phase 3: Level 1) of the multi-level contest challenges participants to prepare digital representations of physical and functional characteri...
Mars valleys traced back to precipitation
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
For years, however, scientists have been debating the source from which this water must have originated: was it rainwater that caused streams and rivers to swel...
The meteorite 'Black Beauty' expands the window for when life might have existed on Mars
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
"Zircon is a very robust mineral that is ideally suited to provide absolute ages. In this context, the zircons can be used to establish a temporal framework to ...
Precipitation explains Mars' fluvial patterns, astronomers claim
Jun 28, 2018 (UPI)
While most scientists agree on Mars' watery past, planetary scientists are less sure about where the water came from. Some have suggested volcanic activity melt...
Opportunity sleeps during a planet-encircling dust storm
Jun 25, 2018 (JPL)
It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is likely that Opportunity has experience...
Martian Dust Storm Grows Global; Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze
Jun 21, 2018 (SPX)
While Opportunity is powered by sunlight, which is blotted out by dust at its current location, Curiosity has a nuclear-powered battery that runs day and night....
Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock formation
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
The Medusae Fossae Formation is a massive, unusual deposit of soft rock near Mars's equator, with undulating hills and abrupt mesas. Scientists first observed t...
Unique microbe could thrive on Mars, help future manned missions
Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)
"This might sound like science fiction, but space agencies and private companies around the world are actively trying to turn this aspiration into reality in th...
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