MARS

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On its first try, China's Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone
May 20, 2021 (The Conversation)
More impressively still, China is the first Mars-going nation to carry out an orbiting, landing and rovering operation as its first mission. Planetary scientist...
Chinese Mars rover beams back first photos
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
The Zhurong rover was carried into the Martian atmosphere in a lander on Saturday, in the first ever successful probe landing by any country on its first Mars m...
Perseverance, Hope and a fire god: a history of Mars rovers
May 15, 2021 (AFP)
China, the US and hitherto space minnows the UAE have sent probes to the treacherous planet, where failure to land safely is more frequent than success. China's...
Perseverance's Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science
May 13, 2021 (JPL)
What insights they turn up will help scientists create a timeline of when an ancient lake formed there, when it dried, and when sediment began piling up in the ...
Seeing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D
May 13, 2021 (JPL)
Located on the rover's mast, or "head," the zoomable dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager provided the view. Along with producing images that enable the public to follo...
Chinese rover detects water existed on Mars more recently than thought
May 11, 2021 (UPI)
A study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances said Zhurong detected evidence that the Utopia Planitia basin had "substantial" liquid water during ...
Perseverance rover captures sound of Ingenuity flying on Mars
May 08, 2021 (AFP)
The space agency on Friday released new footage shot by the six-wheeled robot of its rotorcraft companion making its fourth flight on April 30 -- this time acco...
Volcanoes on Mars could be active, raise possibility of recent habitable conditions
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
Most volcanism on the red planet occurred between 3 and 4 billion years ago, with smaller eruptions in isolated locales continuing perhaps as recently as 3 mill...
Why Ingenuity's fifth flight will be different
May 07, 2021 (JPL)
But the comparisons shouldn't stop with a first flight. Ingenuity's fifth flight is scheduled for Friday, May 7. As always (at least so far), our targeted takeo...
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to begin new demonstration phase
May 01, 2021 (JPL)
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will s...
How Zhurong will attempt to touch down on the red planet
Apr 30, 2021 (The Conversation)
More recently Nasa landed the biggest-ever rover on Mars and its companion, an ingenious helicopter, both of which have been setting new milestones since. The n...
Mars Ingenuity helicopter given new scouting mission
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
The next phase extends the rotocraft's mission beyond the original month-long technology demonstration. Now, the goal is to assess how well flyers can help futu...
NASA extends Mars helicopter mission to assist rover
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
Engineers decided to let the helicopter operate another 30 days for longer flights to new areas of Jezero Crater, they announced in a press conference Friday. N...
Fourth flight postponed for Mars Ingenuity helicopter
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
"The helicopter is safe and in good health," said a statement, adding the rotorcraft had failed to transition to "flight mode." The team plans to attempt the fl...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Apr 29, 2021 (SPX)
Musilova will present the latest on her team's research on Hawaiian lava tubes, and the challenges of trying to do research in spacesuits, this week at the Euro...
Zhurong on course for historic journey
Apr 29, 2021 (XNA)
If the semi-autonomous craft functions efficiently, it will work for at least three months and undertake comprehensive surveys of the planet. The rover, recentl...
With goals met, NASA ready to push the envelope with Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Apr 29, 2021 (JPL)
The fourth Ingenuity flight from Wright Brothers Field, the name for the Martian airfield on which the flight took place, is scheduled to take off Thursday, Apr...
Ingenuity helicopter captures images of its parachute on Mars
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
The pictures, released Wednesday, were taken last week by the 4-pound rotorcraft after engineers sent it on a hunt for the mission's landing gear. NASA official...
Turkish lake with likely clues to Mars gains unwanted fame
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
Lake Salda gained international renown when US scientists began poking around in preparation for the Perseverance rover mission, which has been beaming back vid...
Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study finds
Apr 27, 2021 (SPX)
The apparent contradiction has puzzled scientists for decades, especially because at the same time that Mars had flowing rivers, it was getting less than a thir...
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