MARS

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Attached to Atlas V Rocket
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The process began when a 60-ton hoist on the roof of the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 lifted the nose cone, otherwise known as the p...
NASA updates planetary protection policies for lunar and mars human missions
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The directive's compliance will be ensured by the agency's Office of Planetary Protection within the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, which supports NASA...
The quest to find signs of ancient life on Mars
Jul 11, 2020 (AFP)
It is a question that has preoccupied scientists for centuries and fired up sci-fi imaginings. Now three space exploration projects are gearing up to launch som...
Six decades of missions to Mars
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
A look back at some key Mars missions over the last 60 years: - 1960-1964: Soviet failures - At first, the Soviet Union leads the way, sending probes from 1960,...
Eyes on the stars: UAE's Mars probe a first for the Arab world
Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)
Only the United States, India, the former Soviet Union, and the European Space Agency have successfully sent missions to orbit the Red Planet, while China is pr...
NASA's InSight Flexes Its Arm While Its 'Mole' Hits Pause
Jul 09, 2020 (JPL)
Akin to a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver, the self-hammering mole has experienced difficulty getting into the Martian soil since February 2019. I...
Johnson-Built Device to Help Mars Perseverance Rover Search for Signs of Life
Jul 09, 2020 (SPX)
"SHERLOC is pretty complicated, and we came up with a list of 11 things that all have to be calibrated on this instrument," said Marc Fries, ARES planetary scie...
Summer road trip for Curiosity rover has begun
Jul 07, 2020 (JPL)
Located on the floor of Gale Crater, Mount Sharp is composed of sedimentary layers that built up over time. Each layer helps tell the story about how Mars chang...
Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
The Korolev impact crater is located south of the large dune field Olympia Undae, which surrounds part of the northern polar ice cap. The interior of the two-ki...
'Marsquakes' measured by InSight show effects of sun and wind
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
According to a new study by researchers at Kyushu University's International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, we're closer than ever to achieving t...
China eyes July 20-25 launch for Mars rover
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
The Tianwen-1 Mars rover is scheduled to blast off from Hainan island, off China's south coast, between July 20 - 25, according to the Xichang Satellite Launch ...
SwRI scientists demonstrate speed, precision of in situ planetary dating device
Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)
"In situ aging is an important scientific goal identified by the National Research Council's Decadal Survey for Mars and the Moon as well as the Lunar and Mars ...
Mud downpours might have formed some of Mars's ancient highlands
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
These mudstones comprise the solar system's oldest known sedimentary rocks, according a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports. Mars preserves the solar s...
NASA takes first step to allow computers to decide what to tell us in search for life on Mars
Jun 26, 2020 (JPL)
Allowing these intelligent systems to choose both what to analyse and what to tell us back on Earth will overcome severe limits on how information is transmitte...
How NASA's Mars Helicopter Will Reach the Red Planet's Surface
Jun 24, 2020 (JPL)
"Ingenuity is unlike any other helicopter ever built because powered controlled flight at Mars is unlike anything ever attempted," said MiMi Aung, project manag...
The Launch Is Approaching for NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance
Jun 18, 2020 (JPL)
"Fifty-one years ago today, NASA was deep into final preparations for the first Moon landing," said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. "Today we stand at the t...
Martian rover motors ahead
Jun 17, 2020 (ESA)
The Sample Fetch Rover will need to navigate autonomously, detect tubes of samples collected and packed by an earlier NASA rover, pick them up and return them t...
NASA's new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm life
Jun 17, 2020 (UPI)
The Perseverance rover is expected to land on the Red Planet in February. It is designed to drill samples of rock and drop them for a future mission to pick up ...
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
Jun 16, 2020 (ESA)
On Earth, glowing oxygen is produced during polar auroras when energetic electrons from interplanetary space hit the upper atmosphere. This oxygen-driven emissi...
Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
Jun 16, 2020 (SPX)
Recent research from Alian Wang, research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts and Sciences, and collaborators at WashU, Stony Br...
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