MARS - SKY NIGHTLY

Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)

In opposite to the current Mars conditions, bodies of liquid water, warmer temperature, and higher atmospheric pressure could have existed in Mars' early histor...

Oregon experiments find that electrical sparks are possible on Mars

Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)

However, such sparks are likely to be small and pose little danger to future robotic or human missions to the red planet, they report in a paper published onlin...

Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)

"Touchdown confirmed," said operations lead Swati Mohan at 3:55 pm Eastern Time (2055 GMT), as mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena e...

NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing

Feb 19, 2021 (JPL)

As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover's health reports, which s...

Searching for life in NASA's Perseverance Mars samples

Feb 18, 2021 (JPL)

"To quote Carl Sagan," said Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "'If we see a hedgehog staring...

Skoltech's recent achievement takes us one step closer to Mars

Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)

Modern technology has long become a fixture in all spheres of human life on Earth. Reaching out to other planets is a new challenge for humankind. Since greenho...

'7 minutes of terror': Perserverance rover's nail-biting landing phase

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) begins when the spacecraft carrying Perseverance strikes the Martian atmosphere at nearly 12,500 miles per hour (20,000 kilome...

NASA confirms Perseverance rover has landed on Mars

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

"Touchdown confirmed," said operations lead Swati Mohan at around 3:55 pm Eastern Time (2055 GMT) as mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory headqua...

Mars landing will mark many firsts in space exploration

Feb 18, 2021 (UPI)

New landing technology being employed is vital to future missions, especially if humans are ever to set foot on Mars, Steve Jurczyk, NASA's acting administrator...

Mars rover mission could drive research for decades to come

Feb 18, 2021 (UPI)

The Perseverance rover will start by landing in an area filled with danger, chosen specifically for the potential of what can be discovered there. "The Mars 202...

Mars 2020 - a virtual visit to Jezero Crater

Feb 18, 2021 (DLR)

Various vantage points provide a panoramic view of the crater and its surroundings, as well as zooming in on scenic details down to centimetres. The 3D scenes c...

Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find out

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existed there billions of y...

Perseverance hits 'bullseye' on Mars landing

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP/UPI)

"Touchdown confirmed," said operations lead Swati Mohan at around 3:55 pm Eastern Time (2055 GMT) as mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory headqua...

Airbus space technology reaches Mars

Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)

Perseverance will use seven scientific instruments to study the Martian biological and geological environment, including the MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics A...

Scientists grow cyanobacteria under Mars-like conditions

Feb 17, 2021 (UPI)

The technology could pave the way for the kinds of sustainable biological life support systems that astronauts will need to produce their own food and oxygen on...

Staying long-term on Mars

Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)

Humboldt fellow Cyprien Verseux from the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen has now published initial resea...

HKU planetary scientists discover evidence for a reduced atmosphere on ancient Mars

Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)

The transition from a reduced planet to an oxidised planet is referred to as the Great Oxidation Event or GOE. This transition was a central part of our planet'...

NASA ready to land another Rover on Mars

Feb 17, 2021 (JPL)

"Perseverance is NASA's most ambitious Mars rover mission yet, focused scientifically on finding out whether there was ever any life on Mars in the past," said ...

The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA's Martian Explorers

Feb 17, 2021 (JPL)

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter are a part of the Mars Relay Network, a constellation o...

The geological context of the Mars 2020 landing site through the eyes of DLR

Feb 17, 2021 (DLR)

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been imaging the Red Planet...