MARS

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Scientists Shrink Chemistry Lab to Seek Evidence of Life on Mars
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
"The ExoMars Rover's two-meter deep drill will provide MOMA with unique samples that may contain complex organic compounds preserved from an ancient era, when l...
Curiosity Mars rover back on drill duty
May 24, 2018 (JPL)
Curiosity tested percussive drilling this past weekend, penetrating about 2 inches (50 millimeters) into a target called "Duluth." NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborat...
NASA's InSight Steers Toward Mars
May 24, 2018 (JPL)
InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is the first mission dedicated to exploring the deep interior ...
Mars Society launches Kickstarter to create MarsVR Crew Training Program
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
The MarsVR program will be a unique multi-phase effort designed to pioneer the emerging field of CrowdExploration, which we define as the partnership between th...
NASA's Curiosity Rover Aims to Get Its Rhythm Back
May 18, 2018 (JPL)
This new technique is called Feed Extended Drilling, or FED. It lets Curiosity drill more like the way a person would at home, using the force of its robotic ar...
NASA engineers teach Mars rover Curiosity to drill again
May 18, 2018 (UPI)
Curiosity and its drill haven't had a full range of motion since 2016 when one of the drill's motors short circuited. Over the last year, engineers have develop...
Dorset as model to help find traces of life on Mars
May 16, 2018 (SPX)
By applying their findings to the Red Planet, they concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on Mars that could represen...
Sierra Nevada Corporation Hardware on NASA's Mars InSight Mission
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
"We are proud to provide another critical hardware component for a Martian mission. Our actuators on the deployment arm will support several of the InSight scie...
Opportunity team continues studies on origin of 'Perseverance Valley'
May 14, 2018 (JPL)
The next objective is to investigate some tabular rocks up close that are of interest to the science team. On Sol 5074 (May 3, 2018), Opportunity backed up abou...
NASA plans to send mini-helicopter to Mars
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
Known simply as "The Mars Helicopter," the device weighs less than four pounds (1.8 kilograms), and its main body section, or fuselage, is about the size of a s...
Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover Mission
May 11, 2018 (JPL)
"NASA has a proud history of firsts," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "The idea of a helicopter flying the skies of another planet is thrilling. The Ma...
Mars growth stunted by early giant planetary instability
May 08, 2018 (SPX)
The OU study builds on the widely-accepted Nice Model, which invokes a planetary instability to explain many peculiar observed aspects of the outer solar system...
NASA blasts off Mars-bound spaceship, InSight, to study quakes
May 05, 2018 (AFP)
"Three, two, one, liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the unmanned spacecraft blasted off on a dark, foggy morning atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 am Pacific ti...
One scientist's 30-year quest to get under Mars' skin
May 05, 2018 (AFP)
With a little luck and some help from NASA, the instrument he designed to take the Red Planet's pulse will land before the year's end and press a high-tech ear ...
NASA blasts off Mars lander, InSight
May 05, 2018 (AFP)
"Three, two, one, liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the spacecraft launched on a dark, foggy morning atop an Atlas V rocket at 4:05 am Pacific time (1105 GMT...
InSight probe to survey Mars for secrets inside the planet
May 04, 2018 (UPI)
"As a smaller planet, Mars' interior convection has slowed dramatically or stopped entirely," Elizabeth Barrett, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
Surviving the Inferno of Entry, Descent and Landing
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Experts from NASA's Langley Research Center are key to providing modeling and computer simulations, which will be used by the InSight entry, descent and landing...
NASA's newest Mars lander to study quakes on Red Planet
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
It is scheduled to launch on Saturday at 7:05 am Eastern time (1105 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and if all goes as planned, it should lan...
Early Mars may have been a warm desert with occasional rain
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
A recent study by Ramses Ramirez from the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and Robert Craddock from the National Air and Spac...
Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
The team, led by CU Boulder Associate Professor Brian Hynek, braved second-degree burns, sulfuric acid fumes and the threat of eruptions to collect samples of w...
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