MARS

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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...
Mars rock drilling begins after NASA's helicopter helps plan rover's route
Aug 05, 2021 (UPI)
The agency decided the drilling will occur at an area called Crater Floor Fractured Rough. NASA planned to send the first signals Thursday to start the drilling...
Science in motion for ExoMars twin rover
Aug 03, 2021 (ESA)
With the locomotion system up and running, it is time now for the rover's cameras and instruments to scan a Mars-like terrain - both on and under the surface - ...
Clays, not water, are likely source of Martian lakes
Jul 30, 2021 (JPL)
Hence the interest generated in 2018, when a team led by Roberto Orosei of Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica announced they had found evidence of subsur...
Earthly rocks point way to water hidden on Mars
Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)
"One of my student's experiments was to crystalize hematite," said Peter J. Heaney, professor of geosciences, Penn State. "She came up with an iron-poor compoun...
Aerial Scouting of 'Raised Ridges' for Ingenuity's Flight 10
Jul 28, 2021 (JPL)
Flight 10 will allow us to reap the benefits of our previous flight. Scheduled for no earlier than this Saturday (July 24), Flight 10 will target an area called...
NASA adds 2 helicopters to mission to bring Mars samples back to Earth
Jul 28, 2021 (UPI)
In a joint project with the European Space Agency, NASA has a goal of returning Martian samples back to Earth by 2033. The rover Perseverance is already on the ...
Zhurong marks 1st anniversary since launch with dune exploration
Jul 27, 2021 (XNA)
The robot headed toward the dune earlier this week and began to take photographs, then activated onboard scientific equipment to survey the dune and its surroun...
The anatomy of a planet
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
Mars once completely molten We know that Earth is made up of shells: a thin crust of light, solid rock surrounds a thick mantle of heavy, viscous rock, which in...
China's Mars rover travels 585 meters on red planet
Jul 24, 2021 (XNA)
On Friday, the Mars orbiter marked its first anniversary of operation. Now it is about 378 million km away from Earth. The delay of its one-way communication wa...
The Red Planet has a larger core and a thinner crust
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
The core of our planetary neighbour is larger than previously thought, and the overlying mantle has a structure similar to Earth's upper mantle. Finally, the cr...
InSight mission: Mars unveiled
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
Before NASA's InSight mission, the internal structure of Mars was still poorly understood. Models were based only on data collected by orbiting satellites and o...
Better understanding of Earth's atmospheric chemistry from studying Mars?
Jul 24, 2021 (ESA)
Using four martian years of observations from the SPICAM (Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars) instrument, which...
Meet the Martian meteorite hunters
Jul 23, 2021 (SPX)
The cratered surface of our nearest planetary neighbour has a long and complex history, and searching for rocks amidst more rocks may seem like a futile activit...
Insight data offers clues to Mars' deep interior, formation in solar system
Jul 23, 2021 (UPI)
"Insight has confirmed that our view that Mars is a planet that was once almost entirely molten and separated into a crust, mantle and core as it cooled," Amir ...
Scientists unveil European Mars rover's meteorite-hunting instruments
Jul 23, 2021 (UPI)
Most of the rover's scientific probing will be focused on the first six inches of Mars' crust, but the spacecraft will also be programmed to identify, sample an...
Martian global dust storm ended winter early in the south
Jul 23, 2021 (SPX)
Over two weeks at the beginning of June 2018, localised dust storms combined and spread to form an impenetrable blanket of dust that hid almost the entire plane...
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to acquire first sample
Jul 22, 2021 (JPL)
This important mission milestone is expected to begin within the next two weeks. Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater Feb. 18, and NASA kicked off the rover mis...
NASA rover preparing to take first Mars rock samples
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
The milestone is expected to take place within two weeks in a scientifically interesting region of the Jezero Crater called the "Cratered Floor Fractured Rough....
Perseverance rover begins hunt for signs of Martian life
Jul 21, 2021 (JPL)
Called PIXL, or Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry, the rover's X-ray instrument delivered unexpectedly strong science results while it was still bei...
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