MARS

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The forecast for Mars? Otherworldly weather predictions
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
They need accurate weather forecasts. Without them, any trip to the surface may be one dust storm away from disaster. A new Yale study helps lay the foundation ...
NASA plans yearlong Mars simulation to test limits of isolation
Sep 01, 2021 (UPI)
The simulation, planned for Johnson Space Center in Houston, won't be the first time the space agency attempts to mimic a stay on Mars, but it will be one of th...
Mars mission to pause for about 50 days
Aug 31, 2021 (XNA)
During the period, which will end in early November, the Zhurong rover and the mission's orbiter will suspend their working mode, Zhang Rongqiao of the China Na...
NASA's Perseverance plans next sample attempt
Aug 27, 2021 (JPL)
This week, a tool on the rover's 7-foot-long (2-meter-long) robotic arm will abrade the surface of a rock nicknamed "Rochette," allowing scientists to look insi...
Mars helicopter sees potential rover road ahead
Aug 26, 2021 (JPL)
Prior to Ingenuity's latest flight, the majority of what the Perseverance science team knew of the southern portion of the Seitah feature came from orbiter imag...
China's rover travels over 1 km on Mars
Aug 25, 2021 (XNA)
China's Tianwen-1 mission, consisting of an orbiter, lander, and rover, was launched on July 23, 2020. The lander, carrying the rover with an expected lifespan ...
Blue and Gold satellites headed to Mars in 2024
Aug 24, 2021 (SPX)
The announcement last week by NASA means that by 2026 the spacecraft will likely be exploring the red planet's atmosphere and its interaction with the solar win...
Martian snow is dusty, could potentially melt, new study shows
Aug 24, 2021 (SPX)
So planetary scientists Aditya Khuller and Philip Christensen of Arizona State University, with Stephen Warren, an Earth ice and snow expert from the University...
Curiosity Mars Rover explores a changing landscape
Aug 18, 2021 (JPL)
This location is particularly exciting: Spacecraft orbiting Mars show that Curiosity is now somewhere between a region enriched with clay minerals and one domin...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 12th Mars flight
Aug 17, 2021 (UPI)
The 4-pound autonomous aircraft flew over the South Seitah region of the Red Planet, traveling a total of 1,476 feet round trip at a height of nearly 33 feet fo...
Trio of orbiters shows small dust storms help dry out Mars
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
In the higher reaches of Mars, where the atmosphere is sparse, water molecules are left vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation, which breaks them up into their lig...
Researchers propose plasma-based method of extracting oxygen on Mars
Aug 16, 2021 (UPI)
The team of researchers from the University of Lisbon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sorbonne University, Eindhoven University of Technology and th...
NASA explains strange stringy object photographed by Perseverance rover
Aug 12, 2021 (UPI)
The photo was taken on July 12 and depicted what looked like a tangled web of string in the lower right corner. The image led some to question what the object i...
Aviation Week awards NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with laureate
Aug 11, 2021 (JPL)
When the 4-pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft hovered on Mars for 39.1 seconds on April 19, 2021, it was the first instance of powered, controlled flight on anothe...
Is Curiosity exploring surface sediments or lake deposits
Aug 10, 2021 (SPX)
The researcher team suggested that the large mound of sedimentary rocks explored and analysed for the last eight years actually represent sand and silt deposite...
China's Mars rover travels over 800 meters on red planet
Aug 06, 2021 (XNA)
Zhurong has been traversing a complex terrain full of rocks, craters and dunes, and its rear hazard-avoidance camera captured a picture of the rover just moving...
NASA is recruiting for yearlong simulated Mars Mission
Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)
As NASA ventures farther into the cosmos, the astronaut experience will change. In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA wil...
Mars Perseverance team assessing first sampling attempt
Aug 06, 2021 (JPL)
The rover carries 43 titanium sample tubes, and is exploring Jezero Crater, where it will be gathering samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) for f...
NASA begins recruitment for long-duration Mars Mission Analog Study
Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)
NASA is now accepting applications for participation as a crew member during the first one-year analog mission in a habitat that will simulate stressors of deep...
Helicopter scouts ridge area for Perseverance
Aug 05, 2021 (JPL)
Ingenuity captured the images during its most complex flight yet. After taking off from its seventh airfield, it climbed to a new record altitude of 40 feet (12...
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