MARS

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Lockheed Martin aeroshell selected to for next Mars lander
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
"We are excited to partner with JPL again to design, fabricate and test an aeroshell for a Mars mission," said David Buecher, Lockheed Martin program manager fo...
Jezero crater's 'Delta Scarp' revealed in new images
Jun 23, 2021 (JPL)
Astronaut Randy Bresnik prizes a photo of an aurora he took while aboard the International Space Station. And for Vivian Sun, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsi...
Mars rover to move south after testing
Jun 15, 2021 (XNA)
Liu Jianjun, chief designer of the Tianwen 1 mission's scientific system, said on Saturday that mission planners decided the rover would move south out of scien...
China reveals photos taken by Mars rover
Jun 11, 2021 (XNA)
Three pictures were taken by Zhurong's cameras, and display the rover's upper stage, its landing platform as well as environment of the landing site. Another on...
Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
Jun 10, 2021 (JPL)
During the first few weeks of this first science campaign, the mission team will drive to a low-lying scenic overlook from which the rover can survey some of th...
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies for 7th time
Jun 09, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency announced Tuesday's successful new flight, along with a photo the aerial drone shot of its own shadow during flight. "With each flight we gain ...
China releases new Mars image taken by Tianwen 1 probe
Jun 08, 2021 (XNA)
In the image, taken by a high-resolution camera installed on the orbiter of Tianwen 1 at 6 pm on June 2 (Beijing Time), two bright spots are visible in the uppe...
ExoMars rover twin begins Earth-based mission in 'Mars Terrain Simulator'
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
The rover 'Ground Test Model' (GTM) will play a critical role in the coming months as rover operators prepare for Rosalind Franklin's arrival in Oxia Planum on ...
A new water treatment technology could also help Mars explorers
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
Perchlorate, a negative ion consisting of one chlorine atom bonded to four oxygen atoms, occurs naturally in some soils on Earth, and is especially abundant in ...
InSight Mars Lander Gets a power boost
Jun 04, 2021 (JPL)
Mars is approaching aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun. That means less sunlight reaches the spacecraft's dust-covered solar panels, reducing their energ...
NASA's Curiosity rover captures shining clouds on Mars
May 31, 2021 (JPL)
This year, they were ready to start documenting these "early" clouds from the moment they first appeared in late January. What resulted are images of wispy puff...
Surviving an in-flight anomaly: what happened on Ingenuity's 6th flight
May 28, 2021 (JPL)
Ingenuity was commanded to climb to an altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) before translating 492 feet (150 meters) to the southwest at a ground speed of 9 mph (4 m...
NASA software unlocks Martian rover productivity
May 27, 2021 (SPX)
When the Mars 2020 Perseverance's driving and science activities begin, dozens of mission personnel will start each planning session with a massive trove of new...
Newly discovered glaciers could aid human survival on Mars
May 27, 2021 (SPX)
Expertly checking both boxes, planetary geologists at Western have now discovered sinuous, flowing, glacier-like features below the Martian surface in an area t...
China's Zhurong rover moves onto Martian surface to begin scientific operations
May 22, 2021 (XNA)
The administration said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that according to data sent back to the ground control, the rover's deployment was carried out safe...
China's first Mars rover starts exploring red planet
May 22, 2021 (XNA)
The six-wheeled solar-powered rover, resembling a blue butterfly and with a mass of 240 kg, slowly trundled off a ramp on the lander to hit the red, sandy soil ...
Plans underway for Ingenuity's 6th flight
May 21, 2021 (JPL)
In this new phase, data and images from the flight will be returned to Earth in the days following the flight. The Perseverance rover will not record images of ...
New ExoMars parachute ready for high altitude drop
May 21, 2021 (ESA)
The tests, conducted with NASA/JPL's dynamic extraction test rig in California, USA, focused on demonstrating the readiness of new equipment developed by Airbor...
Salts could be important piece of Martian organic puzzle
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
A NASA team has found that organic salts are likely present on Mars. Like shards of ancient pottery, these salts are the chemical remnants of organic compounds,...
China's Tianwen-1 probe sends back Mars landing visuals
May 20, 2021 (XNA)
The lander carrying a rover of the Tianwen-1 mission touched down in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, on M...
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