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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 ...
Dust storm grounded Mars helicopter, but it's ready to fly again
Jan 20, 2021 (UPI)
Around the first of the year, NASA planned Flight 19 of the tiny, 4-pound helicopter on Jan. 5. But weather forecasters on Ingenuity's team in California notice...
Analyzing different solid states of water on other planets and moons
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
Although they look similar to ice, clathrate hydrates have actually small water-based cages in which smaller molecules are trapped. These trapped "guest" molecu...
Mystery of Martian glaciers revealed
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
On Earth, glaciers covered wide swaths of the planet during the last Ice Age, which reached its peak about 20,000 years ago, before receding to the poles and le...
InSight 'Mole' payload ends operations on Mars
Jan 15, 2021 (JPL)
After getting the top of the mole about 2 or 3 centimeters under the surface, the team tried one last time to use a scoop on InSight's robotic arm to scrape soi...
With $3M NASA Grant, UArizona scientists will test Mars exploration drones in Iceland
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
Hamilton is the principal investigator on a project that has been awarded a $3.1 million NASA grant to develop a new concept combining rovers and unmanned aeria...
Making methane on Mars
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
Houlin Xin, an assistant professor in physics and astronomy, may have found a solution. He and his team have discovered a more efficient way of creating methane...
Curiosity Rover reaches its 3,000th day on Mars
Jan 13, 2021 (JPL)
Stitched together from 122 images taken on Nov. 18, 2020, the mission's 2,946th sol, the panorama was captured by the Mast Camera, or Mastcam, which serves as t...
Frosty scenes in martian summer
Jan 11, 2021 (ESA)
This image was taken during the early morning of a midsummer day in the southern hemisphere. At these high latitudes, carbon dioxide ice and frost develop. Fros...
Seven things to know about the NASA rover about to land on Mars
Jan 07, 2021 (JPL)
"We're working on our last adjustments to put Perseverance in perfect position to land in one of the most interesting places on Mars," said Fernando Abilleira, ...
Tianwen 1 robotic probe to enter Mars orbit in Feb
Jan 05, 2021 (XNA)
By 6 am Sunday, the spacecraft had flown for 163 days on an Earth-Mars transfer trajectory and was about 8.3 million km from the red planet, the administration ...
China Focus: 400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planet
Jan 05, 2021 (XNA)
As of 6 a.m. on Sunday (Beijing Time), the Mars probe had flown in space for 163 days. It was about 130 million km from Earth and about 8.3 million km from Mars...
China's Mars orbiter captures series of selfies using remote camera
Jan 04, 2021 (UPI)
The selfies were taken by a small camera which was deployed by the Tianwen 1, capturing images of the orbiter and sending them back to it via a WiFi connection....
Fluvial Mapping of Mars
Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)
The work, published this month in Geology, complements existing research into Mars' hydrologic history by mapping ancient fluvial (river) ridges, which are esse...
NASA video shows Perseverance rover's planned 'terror' landing on Mars
Dec 23, 2020 (UPI)
The Perseverance rover was launched in the summer and is scheduled to arrive on Mars in February. Once it reaches Mars' atmosphere on its way to Jezero Crater, ...
A Martian Roundtrip: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes
Dec 23, 2020 (JPL)
The tubes carried in the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover are destined to carry the first samples in history from another planet back to Earth. Futu...
How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again
Dec 23, 2020 (The Conversation)
The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ideas of what a crew...
NASA moves forward with campaign to return Mars samples to Earth
Dec 18, 2020 (SPX)
NASA has approved the Mars Sample Return (MSR) multi-mission effort to advance to Phase A, preparing to bring the first pristine samples from Mars back to Earth...
Three things we've learned from NASA's Mars InSight
Dec 17, 2020 (JPL)
There was a time when the surfaces of Mars and Earth were very similar. Both were warm, wet, and shrouded in thick atmospheres. But 3 or 4 billion years ago, th...
Study of dune dynamics will help scientists understand the topography of Mars
Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)
They are formed by the interaction between the flow of a fluid, such as gas or liquid, and granular matter, typically sand, under predominantly unidirectional f...
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