MARS

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NASA's Mars Rover Drivers Need Your Help
Jun 15, 2020 (JPL)
Is that a big rock to the left? Could it be sand? Or maybe it's nice, flat bedrock. AI4Mars, which is hosted on the citizen science website Zooniverse, lets you...
Three new views of Mars' moon Phobos
Jun 09, 2020 (JPL)
The orbiter's infrared camera, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), has been used to measure temperature variations across the surface of Phobos that p...
First Arab mission to Mars designed to inspire youth
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
The unmanned probe Al-Amal -- Hope in Arabic -- is to blast off from a Japanese space centre on July 15, with preparations now in their final stages. The projec...
Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
The images of the small moon, which is about 25 kilometers (15 miles) in diameter, were captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. When reviewed in combinati...
China to carry out its first mission to Mars this summer
Jun 03, 2020 (Sputnik)
China will launch its first mission to Mars in July or August, according to the director of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Bao Weimi...
Perseverance Mars Rover's extraordinary sample-gathering system
Jun 03, 2020 (JPL)
The samples Apollo 11 brought back to Earth from the Moon were humanity's first from another celestial body. NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance rover missio...
Martian moon orbit hints at ancient ring
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
For a long time, scientists believed that Mars's two moons, discovered in 1877, were captured asteroids. However, since their orbits are almost in the same plan...
The detective aboard NASA's Perseverance Rover
May 27, 2020 (JPL)
SHERLOC was built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which leads the Perseverance mission; WATSON was built at Malin Space Science Syst...
MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospheric loss
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
"These currents play a fundamental role in the atmospheric loss that transformed Mars from a world that could have supported life into an inhospitable desert," ...
Air deliveries bring NASA's Perseverance Mars rover closer to launch
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
A week later, the Atlas V launch vehicle that will hurl Perseverance to the Red Planet arrived at the launch site. Working together, personnel from NASA's Jet P...
NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to Chilly Ancient Mars Buried in Rocks
May 20, 2020 (SPX)
Weaving this story, element by element, from roughly 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) away is a painstaking process. But scientists aren't the type to...
The little tires that could go to Mars
May 20, 2020 (SPX)
One of those technologies is an innovative new tire in development at NASA's Glenn Research Center using innovative shape memory alloys (SMA). Tires made from t...
Lava-like mud flows on Mars
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
An unusual laboratory experiment involving the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has now been able to show how mud flows ...
Mystery of lava-like flows on Mars solved by scientists
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
There are tens of thousands of these landforms on the Martian surface, often situated where there are massive channels scoured into the surface by ancient liqui...
NASA's Perseverance Rover goes through trials by fire, ice, light and sound
May 19, 2020 (JPL)
Because hardware cannot be repaired once the rover is on Mars, the team has to build a vehicle that can survive for years on a planet with punishing temperature...
ExoMars rover upgrades and parachute tests
May 18, 2020 (ESA)
The new launch date on the horizon is allowing more margin for replacements and repairs to the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover. The solar panels that will help ...
Sculpted by nature on Mars
May 15, 2020 (ESA)
Features on Mars often trick the eye. It can be difficult to tell if the ground has risen up towards you, or dropped away. This is a common phenomenon with impa...
The horst and graben landscape of Ascuris Planum
May 15, 2020 (SPX)
Here, the results of the enormous forces that once affected the Martian crust as large magma pockets rose from below can be seen. These pockets lifted the crust...
Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and origin
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Mars is one of our closest terrestrial neighbors, yet it's still very far away - between about 55 million and 400 million kilometers depending on where Earth an...
Planetary exploration rover avoids sand traps with 'rear rotator pedaling'
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted and wheels able to "wiggle," a new robot known as the "Mini Rover" has developed and tested complex locomotion ...
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