MARS

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ESA's Mars Express unravels mystery of martian moon using 'fake' flybys
Dec 03, 2021 (ESA)
The solar wind streams out from our star, filling the Solar System with energetic particles. Earth's Moon reflects these particles continuously, and the same 'b...
A one-way phone call at Mars
Dec 02, 2021 (ESA)
13:07 CET, 7 November, Utopia Planitia. The Zhurong rover, commanded by the Tianwen-1 orbiter, points its radio up at the Martian sky. Any minute now, ESA's Mar...
Brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Arabia Terra is in the northern latitudes of Mars. Named in 1879 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, this ancient land covers an area slightly larger t...
Eyes on the Sky
Dec 02, 2021 (JPL)
In less than a year, the rover has already returned thousands of stunning images of local surface features, which have provided our first in situ look at rocks ...
Sols 3314-3315: Bountiful, Beautiful Boulders!
Dec 02, 2021 (JPL)
The caprocks and boulders both show two different textures; 1) layered and 2) more massive and irregular with cavities. The team want to examine these different...
Onwards and Sidewards for Curiosity on Sol 3313
Dec 02, 2021 (JPL)
In our drive today, we're headed to blocks from this layer that have rolled down close to the cliff base. First, the rover will do some contact science with MAH...
Guiding Tianwen-1 to China's first successful Mars rover landing
Nov 30, 2021 (SPX)
"The EDL phase, which begins at the Mars atmosphere interface and ends with a surface touchdown, is crucial for a Mars landing mission," said Xiaolei Wang, rese...
For the curious there's always room for seconds
Nov 26, 2021 (JPL)
While most of us would shy away from leftovers from THREE years ago, Curiosity is diving into a sample from the "Rock Hall" drill target which we've been carryi...
Analysis of Mars's wind-induced vibrations sheds light on the planet's subsurface properties
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
Geophysicist Dr Cedric Schmelzbach from ETH Zurich and colleagues, including the earthquake specialists Dr Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun and doctoral researcher Seb...
Curiosity sends a picture postcard from Mars
Nov 24, 2021 (JPL)
Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of its surroundings with its black-and-white navigation cameras each time it completes a drive. To make the resulting panor...
ASU team celebrates 20th anniversary of NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter arrival at the Red Planet
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
One of the scientific instruments onboard Odyssey is called the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS for short, which is led by Regents Professor Philip C...
Rocky roads through Lanzarote
Nov 22, 2021 (ESA)
The actual site, the Corona lava tube in Lanzarote, Spain, is closer than one might think to the Red Planet. That's why participants of ESA's Pangaea course cam...
Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 16th flight
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the helicopter captured color images of Mars' surface during the flight, which saw it travel 116 meters northeast for 10...
NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars Helicopter
Nov 19, 2021 (JPL)
Ingenuity is currently prepping for its 16th flight, scheduled to take place no earlier than Saturday, Nov. 20, but the 160.5-second Flight 13 stands out as one...
Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
Rocks on Mars may contain numerous types of non-biological deposits that look similar to the kinds of fossils likely to be found if the planet ever supported li...
Twin of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover begins terrain tests
Nov 18, 2021 (JPL)
On a recent day in November, the car-size rover rolled slowly forward, then stopped, perched on the threshold of a Martian landscape. But this rover, named OPTI...
Curiosity continues to dine on Zechstein drill fines
Nov 18, 2021 (JPL)
The composition of the dumped material can be compared to the chemistry of the brushed bedrock surface (prior to drilling) and the fines surrounding the drill h...
Ingenuity makes short hop to the north for Flight 16
Nov 18, 2021 (JPL)
Flight 16 will be a shorter, 109-second flight. Ingenuity will climb up to 33 feet (10 meters), glide over the "Raised Ridges" at 3 mph (1.5 meters per second),...
Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
Nov 16, 2021 (JPL)
Unlike Earth, Mars doesn't have a magnetic field to shield it from the high-energy particles whizzing around in space. That radiation can wreak havoc on human h...
Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale
Nov 16, 2021 (JPL)
Anticipating the return to contact science within the next few days, Mastcam will take an image of the tailings around the Zechstein drill hole in today's plan....
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