MARS

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ERC Space and Robotics Event 2020
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
The grand finale of the sixth edition of the ERC Space and Robotics Event will take place between the 11th and 13th of September 2020. The three-day competition...
Surprise on Mars
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
In other words, the phenomenon occurs much more frequently than on Earth, when our moon crosses in front of the sun. "However, the eclipses on Mars are shorter ...
NASA Readies Perseverance Mars Rover's Earthly Twin
Sep 07, 2020 (JPL)
A full-scale engineering version of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover - outfitted with wheels, cameras, and powerful computers to help it drive autonomously - ha...
Nereidum Montes a mountain landscape formed by water, ice and wind
Sep 04, 2020 (SPX)
Mars Express delivers new data about the geology, mineralogy and atmosphere of Mars to shed light on the climate history of the Red Planet and clarify the role ...
China releases recommended Chinese names for Mars craters
Aug 31, 2020 (XNA)
The data will be available for public use. Users can find the Chinese names at Glossary of Astronomical Terms operated by the National Astronomical Data Center....
Follow Perseverance in real time on its way to Mars
Aug 24, 2020 (JPL)
"Eyes on the Solar System visualizes the same trajectory data that the navigation team uses to plot Perseverance's course to Mars," said Fernando Abilleira, the...
Deep learning will help future Mars rovers go farther, faster, and do more science
Aug 20, 2020 (SPX)
While a major achievement, these missions have only scratched the surface (literally and figuratively) of the planet and its geology, geography, and atmosphere....
Sustained planetwide storms may have filled lakes, rivers on ancient mars
Aug 20, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published in Geology, represents the first time that researchers have quantified the precipitation that must have been present across the planet, and...
NASA establishes Board to initially review Mars sample return plans
Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)
When the Perseverance rover launched to Mars on July 30, it carried with it a sophisticated sampling system with drill bits, a coring arm, and sample tubes that...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recharges its batteries in flight
Aug 14, 2020 (JPL)
During the eight-hour operation, the performance of the rotorcraft's six lithium-ion batteries was analyzed as the team brought their charge level up to 35%. Th...
Rice researchers use InSight for deep Mars measurements
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
"Ultimately it may help us understand planetary formation," said Alan Levander, co-author of a study available online this week in Geophysical Research Letters....
A new look at Mars' eerie, ultraviolet nighttime glow
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
An astronaut standing on Mars couldn't see this "nightglow" - it shows up only as ultraviolet light. But it may one day help scientists to better predict the ch...
Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are so wide they can host planetary bases
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
This study involved the Universities of Bologna and Padua and its coordinators are Francesco Sauro and Riccardo Pozzobon. Francesco Sauro is a speleologist and ...
NASA scientists leverage carbon-measuring instrument for Mars studies
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists Jim Abshire and Scott Guzewich, both at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have won NASA technology-development funding to bu...
NASA's MAVEN observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
The MAVEN team was surprised to find that the atmosphere pulsed exactly three times per night, and only during Mars' spring and fall. The new data also revealed...
Ice sheets, not rivers, carved valleys on Mars, new study says
Aug 03, 2020 (UPI)
"Valley networks on Mars have historically been interpreted as surface water flows, either sourced by surface liquid water or by ground water," study lead autho...
A European dream team for Mars
Aug 03, 2020 (ESA)
The group is made up of researchers from Belgium, France, Sweden and the UK. "These top scientists from across Europe are experts on how to collect, analyse and...
Radiation-Devouring Mold Could Be Humanity's Key to Venturing to Mars, New Research Says
Aug 03, 2020 (Sputnik)
While the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster was a tragic event for thousands of people, it might have done a huge favour to scientific research, as well as to hu...
NASA's Perseverance rover bound for Mars to seek ancient life
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
Previous trips to Mars have discovered it was far warmer and wetter three billion years ago than it is today, creating the conditions necessary for carbon-based...
DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera 'flies' over a future Mars landing site
Jul 30, 2020 (ESA)
This simulated overflight was created using image data acquired by DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter and digital te...
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