MARS

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Flying On Mars is getting harder and harder
Sep 17, 2021 (JPL)
With the benefit of the knowledge acquired, conducting flights on Mars has in most ways become easier than it was at the outset. But in one important way it is ...
First deep drilling success for ExoMars
Sep 17, 2021 (ESA)
The successful collection of soil from a hard stone and its delivery to the laboratory inside the rover marks a promising milestone for the ExoMars 2022 mission...
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
Sep 17, 2021 (JPL)
About 33 feet (10 meters) wide, the mound is visible just north of the center of the image, with some large rocks casting shadows. Stretching across the top of ...
Scientists believe Mars rock samples contain organic matter
Sep 17, 2021 (UPI)
The four most recent samples are all sedimentary rocks from an ancient river delta in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater, NASA confirmed this week. They mark the fi...
MDA awarded contract for Japan's Martian Moons Exploration Mission
Sep 15, 2021 (SPX)
MDA will be providing two redundant flight units (laser range finder - LRF) altimeters and one engineering development unit (EDU) LRF altimeter. Scheduled to la...
NASA Mars Rover's rock samples to be studied for signs of life
Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)
The samples come from the rim of an ancient river delta in Red Planet's Jezero Crater. "We picked the Jezero Crater for Perseverance to explore because we thoug...
NASA's Perseverance rover collects puzzle pieces of Mars' history
Sep 13, 2021 (JPL)
Analysis of the rocks from which the Montdenier and Montagnac samples were taken and from the rover's previous sampling attempt may help the science team piece ...
NASA Mars mission begins a new chapter of science with a new leader
Sep 10, 2021 (SPX)
She succeeds Dr. Bruce Jakosky, from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder, who served as MAVEN's princi...
Mars rover's first rock samples reveal lengthy water exposure
Sep 10, 2021 (UPI)
"We determined salt granules in the rock indicate it was exposed to water," Julia Goreva, a NASA scientist for the rover program, said in a news conference from...
Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient life
Sep 10, 2021 (AFP)
"It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment," said Ken Farley, project scientist for the mission, in a statement Friday....
Buttes on Mars may serve as radiation shelters
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, GUO Jingnan from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
China develops prototype Mars helicopter
Sep 08, 2021 (Sputnik)
The newly developed and recently unveiled prototype miniature helicopter drone, a possible means to support China's Mars missions, is designed to become a navig...
NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock
Sep 07, 2021 (AFP)
"I've got it!" the space agency tweeted, alongside a photograph of a rock core slightly thicker than a pencil inside a sample tube. The sample was collected on ...
NASA's Perseverance rover collects first rock sample
Sep 07, 2021 (JPL)
The core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future. Through the Mars Sample Return campaign, NASA and...
Mars: Perseverance rover takes a sample, Ingenuity notches 13th flight
Sep 07, 2021 (UPI)
The mission reached both milestones over the Labor Day Weekend -- the flight was completed Saturday and the drilling Monday. The rock sample was imaged by the r...
After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
Sep 05, 2021 (AFP)
Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely. The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter set to fly lower for detailed surface imaging
Sep 05, 2021 (JPL)
Taking place no earlier than Saturday, Sept. 4 at 5:08 p.m. PDT, or 12:04 LMST (local Mars time), the 193rd sol (Martian day) of the Perseverance mission, the f...
NASA thinks Mars rover succeeded in taking rock sample
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
Its first effort earlier this month failed after the rock was too crumbly to withstand the robot's drill, but data received late on September 1 indicates the pr...
NASA's Perseverance Rover obtains first rock core
Sep 03, 2021 (JPL)
However, additional images taken after the arm completed sample acquisition were inconclusive due to poor sunlight conditions. Another round of images with bett...
NASA's Mars simulation hopefuls face tough application process
Sep 02, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency's simulation is to begin in fall 2022 inside a 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Applications are due Sept. 17. And being ...
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