MARS

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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 ...
Tianwen 1 enters Mars' polar orbit
Feb 16, 2021 (XNA)
The spacecraft activated its 3,000-Newton-thrust orbital-control engine at 5 pm to conduct an orbital plane change maneuver to enter polar orbit with a perigee ...
Melting dusty ice may have carved Martian gullies
Feb 16, 2021 (SPX)
The melting of this dusty water ice could have led to the formation of gullies that have eroded into rock and ice at these locations and may provide places for ...
Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
The Mars 2020 mission, which set off late from Florida in late July, includes the largest ever vehicle to be dispatched to the Red Planet. Built at NASA's Jet P...
Tuning in for a precision landing on Mars on Feb 18
Feb 16, 2021 (SPX)
Because the signal will take about 11 minutes to reach Earth from Mars, confirmation of the landing will arrive at NASA's control centre at the Jet Propulsion L...
NASA wants to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time
Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)
Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet on Thursday, the small Ingenuity helicopter will have several challenges to overcome ...
InSight Is meeting the challenge of winter on dusty Mars
Feb 15, 2021 (JPL)
While the mission team plans to continue collecting data well into 2022, the increasing dustiness of the spacecraft's solar panels and the onset of the Martian ...
Sensors prepare to collect data as Perseverance enters Martian atmosphere
Feb 15, 2021 (JPL)
Onboard the rover's protective aeroshell is the Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2), which will collect critical data about the harsh en...
Mars rover Perseverance notches a year of science, tech achievements
Feb 14, 2021 (UPI)
The flawless landing of the rover in Mars' Jezero Crater, on Feb. 18, 2021, kicked off a year of successes, including the first rock sample drilled on another p...
UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home first image of Mars
Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)
The picture "captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight," it said in a statement. The image was ta...
Join ASU Mastcam-Z team for a live watch party of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
ASU will hold a live landing watch party on Feb. 18 beginning at 11:30 a.m. Arizona time (MST) with Mastcam-Z principal investigator Jim Bell, Mastcam-Z ground ...
SwRI scientist proposes a new timeline for Mars terrains
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
This new chronology for Mars, based on the latest dynamical models for the formation and evolution of the solar system, is particularly significant as the days ...
Precise braking helps China's Tianwen 1 probe enter Mars orbit
Feb 12, 2021 (XNA)
Yang Yuguang, a researcher with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited, told the Science and Technology Daily that the braking is a key and ri...
ExoMars discovers new gas and traces water loss on Mars
Feb 11, 2021 (ESA)
A major quest in Mars exploration is hunting for atmospheric gases linked to biological or geological activity, as well as understanding the past and present wa...
As new probes reach Mars, here's what we know so far from trips to the red planet
Feb 11, 2021 (SPX)
The first, the United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe, should have made it to the red planet this week. It will stay in orbit and study its atmosphere for one complet...
Scientists detect water vapour emanating from Mars
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
The traces of ancient valleys and river channels suggest liquid water once flowed across the surface of Mars. Today, the water is mostly locked up in the planet...
China's Tianwen-1 probe enters Mars orbit: state media
Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)
It is the latest step in Beijing's ambitious space programme, which aims to establish a crewed space station by 2022 and eventually put a man on the moon, and h...
UAE's 'Hope' probe enters Mars orbit in first for Arab world
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
The probe is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, but the UAE also wants it to serve as an inspiration for the region's youth. "To the people of t...
Perseverance in testing helps assure a safe landing on Mars
Feb 09, 2021 (SPX)
But the very features that make the site fascinating to scientists also make it a relatively dangerous place to land - a challenge that has motivated rigorous t...
Where Should Future Astronauts Land on Mars? Follow the Water
Feb 09, 2021 (JPL)
So you want to build a Mars base. Where to start? Like any human settlement, it would be best located near accessible water. Not only will water be crucial for ...
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