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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...
UAE on edge as 'Hope' probe poised to enter Mars orbit
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
If successful, the probe which is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, will become the first of three spacecraft to arrive at the Red Planet this ...
Tianwen 1 makes orbital correction as Mars arrival draws near
Feb 08, 2021 (XNA)
The robotic vehicle ignited one of its engines at 8 pm to make an orbital correction and ensure it would be flying in the right direction toward the Martian gra...
New era of Mars exploration begins as craft nears Red Planet
Feb 08, 2021 (UPI)
The UAE probe will near Mars late Monday, and the mission will make a final, 27-minute orbital insertion burn, or correction, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday...
NASA awards contract for first rocket to launch from another planet
Feb 08, 2021 (UPI)
The so-called Mars Ascent Vehicle, or MAV, has been designed to fly to Mars, receive Martian rock samples from a rover and blast back into space. It's part of a...
Sarah al-Amiri: young minister behind UAE mission to Mars
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
Now the 34-year-old is a government minister and one of the drivers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ambitious project behind the "Hope" probe that is due to r...
UAE's 'Hope' probe to be first in trio of Mars missions
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
The United Arab Emirates, China and the United States all launched projects to Mars last July, taking advantage of a period when the Earth and Mars are nearest....
China's space probe sends back its first image of Mars
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
The spacecraft, launched in July around the same time as a rival US mission, is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10. The black-and-white photo relea...
Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth
Feb 05, 2021 (The Conversation)
What's the goal of this mission? What we're looking for is evidence of past life, either direct chemical or organic signs in the composition and the chemistry o...
How Mars became the prize for the new space race
Feb 05, 2021 (The Conversation)
The race between several nations and private companies, however, is far from over. China is now approaching Mars with its Tianwen-1 mission, due to arrive on Fe...
Tianwen 1 probe set to enter Mars orbit before New Year
Feb 04, 2021 (XNA)
The State-owned conglomerate said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon that the spacecraft will conduct a "braking" operation to decelerate and make sure it wi...
An innovative and non-destructive strategy to analyse material from Mars
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
'We made a set of pads perfectly characterised in accordance the instruments we have here, in order to enable us to verify that the LIBS and Raman spectroscopy ...
NASA, International Partners assess mission to map ice on Mars
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Under the statement, NASA, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced their in...
Martian landslides caused by underground salts and melting ice?
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Previous ideas suggested that liquid debris flows or dry granular flows caused this movement. Neither model can completely account for the seasonal martian flow...
NASA's Perseverance pays off back home
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
That's not the only technology headed to Mars that's already paying dividends on the ground. Here on Earth, these innovations are also improving circuit board m...
MAVEN continues to advance Mars science and telecommunications relay efforts
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
MAVEN launched in November 2013 and entered the Martian atmosphere roughly a year later. Since that time, MAVEN has made fundamental contributions to understand...
NASA's Perseverance Rover 22 days from Mars landing
Jan 28, 2021 (JPL)
Once at the top of the Red Planet's atmosphere, an action-packed seven minutes of descent awaits - complete with temperatures equivalent to the surface of the S...
Purdue scientist ready for Mars rover touchdown
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
That wait is dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" and Briony Horgan, Purdue University associate professor of planetary science, calls it the scariest moment of...
Six things to know about NASA's Mars helicopter on its way to Mars
Jan 22, 2021 (JPL)
When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying a small but mighty passenger: Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter. The helicopter,...
New Mars rover may collect first sounds recorded on another planet
Jan 21, 2021 (UPI)
NASA expects its Perseverance rover to land Feb. 18, after the United Arab Emirates' Hope orbiter arrives Feb. 9 and China's Tianwen-1 mission arrives the next ...
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