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Russian Space Research Institute Announces July 2020 Date for Mission to Mars
Oct 10, 2017 (Sputnik)
The launch of the ExoMars-2020 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is tentatively scheduled for July 24, 2020, head of the Russian Academy of Sci...
Opportunity Feeling the Chemistry
Oct 10, 2017 (JPL)
The cold, low-light winter conditions continue to limit activity. Sols 4866 and 4867 (October 1, 2017 and October 2, 2017) were recharge sols with little activi...
Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life
Oct 09, 2017 (JPL)
A recent international report examines observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of massive deposits in a basin on southern Mars. The authors int...
ASU examines Mars' moon Phobos in a different light
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter observed Phobos on Sept. 29, 2017. THEMIS Principal Investigator Philip Chris...
Examining Mars' Moon Phobos in a Different Light
Oct 06, 2017 (JPL)
"Part of the observed face of Phobos was in pre-dawn darkness, part in morning daylight," said THEMIS Deputy Principal Investigator Victoria Hamilton of the Sou...
Another Chance to Put Your Name on Mars
Oct 05, 2017 (JPL)
In 2015, nearly 827,000 people signed up to add their names to a silicon microchip onboard the robotic spacecraft. NASA is now adding a second microchip, giving...
Lockheed Martin Reveals New Details to its Mars Base Camp Vision
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Mars Base Camp is a vision of how to send humans to Mars in about a decade. It's a sound, safe and compelling mission architecture centered around an orbital ou...
Methane belches kept water flowing on ancient Mars
Oct 03, 2017 (UPI)
The evidence that water once flowed freely on Mars is overwhelming. Over the last decade, scientists have found signs that water moved across the surface of the...
Large Solar Storm Sparks Global Aurora and Doubles Radiation Levels on the Martian Surface
Oct 03, 2017 (JPL)
The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been stud...
Fresh Look at Old Data Yields Surprise Near Martian Equator
Oct 03, 2017 (JPL)
Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collect...
SpaceX's Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of ta...
Lockheed Martin unveils reusable water-powered Mars lander
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions next decade into the space between Eart...
Research sheds new light on how Earth and Mars were created
Sep 28, 2017 (SPX)
Planets grow by a process of accretion - a gradual accumulation of additional material - in which they collisionally combine with their neighbours. This is ofte...
3-D Analysis Offers New Info on Martian Climate Change, Age of Polar Caps
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
This information will help scientists better understand Martian climate changes and may allow them to determine the age of the polar caps without using climate ...
The Mars 2020 Rover features new spectral abilities with its new SuperCam
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
The burst of infrared light it fires lasts only a few billionths of seconds, but it is powerful enough to vaporize the spot it hits at more than 8,000C. Even fr...
Hope to discover sure signs of life on Mars
Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)
A new paper in the journal Astrobiology suggests NASA and others hunting for proof of Martian biology in the form of "microfossils" could use the element vanadi...
Exploring 'Perseverance Valley' During Winter
Sep 21, 2017 (JPL)
Winter is constraining the available energy, so the project has to rover hop (drive) from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. (These lily pads are loca...
HIAD heat shield material feels the burn during arc jet testing
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The inflatable aeroshell, using high temperature advanced flexible material systems, will enable atmospheric entry to planetary bodies and the landing of heavy ...
Devilish Source of Dust in Atmosphere of Earth and Mars
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
The findings have implications for the climate and weather of both planets and, potentially, human health here on Earth. Results will be presented by Dr. Jan Ra...
More evidence of water on Mars
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
These deposits are observable with satellite images because they have undergone a process called "topographic inversion." where the deposits filling once topogr...
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