MARS

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Mars - or Arrakis
Nov 15, 2021 (JPL)
Yet Perseverance is currently winding her way through the maze of towering sand dunes that characterize the Seitah region of Jezero crater ("Seitah" means "amid...
Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science
Nov 12, 2021 (JPL)
In order to take advantage of this excess energy, the team added yet another science block to the plan and strategically positioned it to occur in the morning a...
Docking the Perseverance robotic arm
Nov 11, 2021 (JPL)
Docking happens twice during sample collection. First, the robotic arm docks to drop off the currently-chucked abrading bit and pick up a coring bit with an emp...
Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes
Nov 11, 2021 (ESA)
This edition's participants are ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, ESA engineer Robin Eccleston and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, who is part of the group of NAS...
China's Mars orbiter enters remote-sensing orbit
Nov 10, 2021 (XNA)
The CNSA said the orbit was set according to the needs of the orbiter in conducting global detection and relaying communications between the Mars rover and Eart...
Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
Nov 10, 2021 (JPL)
Tosol, Curiosity is planning for a TON of cool science including a ChemCam vertical raster in our new drill hole (more about this below), CheMin analysis of the...
Sols 3289-3291: Go For Drilling on Zechstein!
Nov 09, 2021 (JPL)
In the last plan, we got a beautiful brush of the rock surface around Zechstein (shown in the image). We even think we can see a divot in the center resulting f...
Sols 3287-3288: Assessing a New Potential Drill Target
Nov 08, 2021 (JPL)
This allows us to systematically document any changes in the composition of the terrain while being reasonable with our limited rover resources. The terrain is ...
NASA sending Mars helicopter back to where it all started
Nov 08, 2021 (UPI)
The latest flight, over the weekend, was relatively short -- at just 128 seconds -- and was designed in part to further test flight conditions at Jezero Crater ...
Flight #15 - Start of the Return Journey
Nov 08, 2021 (JPL)
To accomplish this feat, the Ingenuity team is planning a series of 4-7 flights to return to Wright Brothers Field. Along the way the project is considering pre...
Smart focus on Mars
Nov 08, 2021 (ESA)
The scientific eyes of the rover are set on the Panoramic Camera suite known as PanCam. The replica atop the mast of the Ground Test Model rover is achieving a ...
Researchers begin to understand correlation of schumann resonances and dust storms on Mars
Nov 05, 2021 (SPX)
Mars has been a focus of active study over the last decade, with researchers looking at possible space missions to the planet. Knowledge about the Martian atmos...
Sol 3285: Oh So Close
Nov 04, 2021 (JPL)
Indeed, today's drive will take us close to the area where we want to drill next, but not necessarily the exact spot. We hope to be able to look around us after...
UNI Bremen involved in AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
What are team processes like when the crew is on Mars? The INTERTEAM project addresses exactly this question. It is a cooperation at the University of Bremen be...
New Curtin study pinpoints likely home of Martian meteorites
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
The new research, published in Nature Communications, identified meteorites that landed on Earth likely originated from Mars' Tooting crater, located in the Tha...
NASA's InSight spacecraft on Mars nears final days
Nov 01, 2021 (UPI)
The Mars InSight lander was sent to the Red Planet in 2018 to study its crust, mantle and core. Heavy dust buildup on its solar panels, the chief source of its ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight 14 Successful
Oct 28, 2021 (JPL)
The short 23-second flight included a peak altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) above ground level, with a small sideways translation of 7 feet (2 meters) to avoid a ...
You can help train NASA's rovers to better explore Mars
Oct 27, 2021 (JPL)
Called AI4Mars, the project is the continuation of one launched last year that relied on imagery from NASA's Curiosity rover. Participants in the earlier stage ...
NASA Mars Rover and Helicopter models to go on national tour
Oct 26, 2021 (JPL)
While NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter are hard at work exploring Mars hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, their "twin" models will...
China's Mars orbiter resumes communications with Earth
Oct 25, 2021 (XNA)
The orbiter was in normal condition during the solar conjunction, said the CNSA, citing telemetry data. It is the first time that the orbiter successfully survi...
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