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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes third successful flight
Apr 25, 2021 (UPI)
The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., announced the successful flight in a tweet Sunday morning, declaring that the helicopter "continues to set reco...
NASA's Mars helicopter's third flight goes farther, faster than before
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
After two initial flights during which the craft hovered above the Red Planet's surface, the helicopter on this third flight covered 64 feet (50 meters) of dist...
Seismicity on Mars full of surprises, in first continuous year of data
Apr 24, 2021 (SPX)
At the Seismological Society of America (SSA)'s 2021 Annual Meeting, Savas Ceylan of ETH Zurich discussed some of the findings from The Marsquake Service, the p...
China announces Zhurong as name for first Mars rover
Apr 24, 2021 (XNA)
Announced at the opening ceremony of 2021 China Space Conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, the naming is intended to represent the rover's symbolic task to ...
Mars' changing habitability recorded by ancient dune fields in Gale crater
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
In a new paper published in JGR: Planets, researchers on the NASA-JPL Mars Science Laboratory mission used the Curiosity rover to add another piece to the puzzl...
Mars 2020 used key systems at AFRL for pre flight testing
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
Perseverance was lowered to the Martian surface using a "sky crane." As rovers became more sophisticated, carrying more scientific instrumentation, cameras and ...
Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Astrobiology, looked at the chemical composition of Martian meteorites -- rocks blasted off of the surface of Mars that even...
NASA's Mars helicopter makes second flight
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
"So far, the engineering telemetry we have received and analyzed tell us that the flight met expectations," said Bob Balaram, Ingenuity's chief engineer at NASA...
Perseverance extracts first oxygen from Mars surface materials
Apr 22, 2021 (JPL)
While the technology demonstration is just getting started, it could pave the way for science fiction to become science fact - isolating and storing oxygen on M...
MOXIE creates oxygen on Mars
Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment), a small, gold box-shaped instrument on the rover, successfully demonstrated a solid oxide electroly...
space physicist explains why a helicopter flew on Mars is a big deal
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
It may not sound like a huge feat, but it is. Ingenuity's flight is the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet. It marks a milestone in the story...
China to announce name of its first Mars rover
Apr 21, 2021 (XNA)
Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu province, will host the main events marking this year's Space Day of China, Lyu Bo, a CNSA official, told a press ...
Can a new type of glacier on Mars aid future astronauts
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
Shannon Hibbard is a Ph.D. candidate in geology and planetary science at the University of Western Ontario and the lead author of a new scientific paper on glac...
Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
In order to fly in Mars's thin atmosphere-with an atmospheric volume less than 1% of Earth's-NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had to keep the weight of In...
Mars rover searches for evidence of past life at ancient river delta
Apr 20, 2021 (UPI)
As of April 13, the rover was "at the doorstep of Jezero Crater's ancient Martian river delta" searching for signs of microscopic life, according to NASA. "The ...
NASA aims for historic helicopter flight on Mars
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
The space agency had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of t...
Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars: NASA
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
At 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), the four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off, hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface, then came bac...
NASA's Mars helicopter succeeds in historic first flight
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
The four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off at 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), rose to a height of 10 feet (three meters), swiveled its tissue-box size...
Key things to know about NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)
Here are some key things to know. - Proof of concept - The rotorcraft's first flight lasted 39.1 seconds as Ingenuity lifted itself to a height of 10 feet (thre...
NASA's Mars copter flight could happen as soon as Monday
Apr 17, 2021 (AFP)
The mini-helicopter's trip will mark the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, and will help NASA reap invaluable data about the conditions o...
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