MARS

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity approaches 14th flight
Oct 22, 2021 (UPI)
The flight, Ingenuity's 14th, is brief and simple by design. As weather at Jezero Crater gets warmer, the aircraft's rotors must turn faster to achieve flight, ...
Hear sounds from Mars captured by Perseverance Rover
Oct 19, 2021 (JPL)
"It's like you're really standing there," said Baptiste Chide, a planetary scientist who studies data from the microphones at L'Institut de Recherche en Astroph...
Life on Mars: simulating Red Planet base in Israeli desert
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile...
Lake breach flooding played big role in Martian geography
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
This helps us better understand the past climate history of Mars, said Morgan, a co-author on "The importance of lake breach floods for valley incision on early...
HiRISE spots Perseverance in South Seitah
Oct 01, 2021 (JPL)
The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab...
NASA selects crew for simulated trip to a Mars Moon
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
Beginning Oct. 1, 2021, four people will live and work for 45 days inside a unique, ground-based habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Designed to ...
NASA plans careful restart for Mars helicopter after quiet period
Oct 01, 2021 (UPI)
Sometime around Oct. 14, NASA plans to check in with the helicopter and the Mars rover Perseverance. Previous rovers have endured so-called solar conjunction co...
Using dunes to interpret wind on Mars
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
On other planets and planetary bodies, we do not yet have weather stations measuring the winds (with a few recent exceptions on Mars only). Without a way to dir...
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help clover plants grow in Mars-like soil
Sep 29, 2021 (UPI)
Growing conditions are quite different on the Red Planet, so scientists on Earth have been conducting experiments to better understand how plants will behave in...
Spin test a success, but Ingenuity Flight 14 delayed until after conjunction
Sep 29, 2021 (JPL)
Increasing the rotor speed is a significant change to how we've been flying thus far, so we wanted to proceed forward carefully. Step one was to perform a high-...
Scientists use seasons to find water for future Mars astronauts
Sep 28, 2021 (SPX)
Using data from NASA's Mars Odyssey, which has spent almost 20 years orbiting the Red Planet, Martinez and his colleagues have identified two areas of particula...
Carbon dioxide reactor makes Martian fuel
Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)
UC College of Engineering and Applied Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu and his students used a carbon catalyst in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide into...
NASA's Perseverance rover cameras capture Mars like never before
Sep 24, 2021 (JPL)
NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for more than 217 Earth days (211 Martian days, or sols), and the dusty rocks there are beginning to ...
NASA's InSight finds three big marsquakes, thanks to solar-panel dusting
Sep 24, 2021 (JPL)
On Sept. 18, NASA's InSight lander celebrated its 1,000th Martian day, or sol, by measuring one of the biggest, longest-lasting marsquakes the mission has ever ...
Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests
Sep 21, 2021 (SPX)
Remote sensing studies and analyses of Martian meteorites dating back to the 1980s posit that Mars was once water-rich, compared with Earth. NASA's Viking orbit...
Justin Simon Shepherds Perseverance through first phase of Martian rock sampling
Sep 20, 2021 (JPL)
The evening of Aug. 1 felt a lot like a birthday to NASA planetary scientist Justin Simon. On that night, Simon attended a virtual watch party for researchers p...
NASA offers new website to look at Mars rover images
Sep 20, 2021 (UPI)
The site, Explore with Perseverance, is updated when the rover makes a significant move. NASA has uploaded seven locations, starting with the Octavia E. Butler ...
NASA confirms thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars
Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)
Some volcanoes can produce eruptions so powerful they release oceans of dust and toxic gases into the air, blocking out sunlight and changing a planet's climate...
Take a 3D Spin on Mars and track NASA's Perseverance Rover
Sep 20, 2021 (JPL)
It's the next best thing to being on Mars: Two online interactive experiences let you check out Jezero Crater - the landing site and exploration locale for NASA...
Small stature limits Mars' ability to hold water, study finds
Sep 20, 2021 (UPI)
When considering a planet's potential habitability, scientists mostly look at a planet's atmosphere and its distance from its host star. But novel research out ...
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