MARS

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Study suggests terrestrial life unlikely to contaminate Mars
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
Due to Mars' low temperatures and extremely dry conditions, a droplet of liquid water on its surface would instantly freeze, boil or evaporate, unless the dropl...
Salty Liquids on Mars - Present, but not habitable?
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
"Life on Earth, even extreme life, has certain environmental limits that it can withstand," noted Dr. Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin, a Universities Space Research A...
The strange structure of large impact craters on Mars observed by Opportunity
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
Observations along Opportunity's traverse showed that while pre-existing rocks at Endeavour crater were shoved upward and tilt outward like those seen in small ...
NASA's Perseverance Rover Spacecraft Put in Launch Configuration
May 08, 2020 (JPL)
Called "vehicle stacking," the process began on April 23 with the integration of the rover and its rocket-powered descent stage. One of the first steps in the d...
Perseverance Presses On, Remains Targeted for Summer Launch
May 08, 2020 (SPX)
The latest activities at the Florida spaceport included attaching the aeroshell backshell on April 29 and attaching the rover to its rocket-powered descent stag...
NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission Getting in Shape for Launch
May 08, 2020 (SPX)
Called "vehicle stacking," the process began on April 23 with the integration of the rover and its rocket-powered descent stage. One of the first steps in the d...
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover Scientists Train in the Nevada Desert
May 07, 2020 (JPL)
Scientists have sought answers to astrobiological questions on Earth, studying regions similar enough to Mars to understand what the Red Planet's microscopic fo...
UBC researchers establish new timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars
May 04, 2020 (SPX)
A planet's global magnetic field arises from what scientists call a dynamo: a flow of molten metal within the planet's core that produces an electrical current....
NASA's Perseverance rover will look at Mars through these 'eyes'
May 04, 2020 (JPL)
Located on Perseverance's "head," Mastcam-Z (the Z stands for "zoom") is a more advanced version of Mastcam, which NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has relied on to ...
NASA's Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity
Apr 30, 2020 (JPL)
Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, came up with the name and the motivation behind it during NASA's "Name the Rove...
Martian meteorites contain 4-billion-year-old nitrogen-bearing organic material
Apr 30, 2020 (SPX)
This organic material has most likely been preserved for 4 billion years since Mars' Noachian age. Because carbonate minerals typically precipitate from the gro...
Emirates first Mars mission ready for launch from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre
Apr 30, 2020 (SPX)
"We're on track for our July launch now," said EMM Mission lead Omran Sharaf. "Mitigation planning and early action, along with the support of our partners and ...
Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
Undulating streaks of land visible from space reveal rivers once coursed across the Martian surface - but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to record...
Nanocardboard flyers could serve as martian atmospheric probes
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
With the risks of extraterrestrial flight in mind, Penn Engineers are suggesting a different approach to exploring the skies of other worlds: a fleet of tiny ai...
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover gets balanced
Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)
Precision mass properties measurements are essential to a safe landing on Mars because they help ensure that the spacecraft travels accurately throughout its tr...
Surface Hot Springs May Have Existed on Ancient Mars
Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)
These features could be of unique astrobiological importance, as hot springs on Earth not only appear to host some of the earliest evolutionary lifeforms on our...
NASA's Curiosity Keeps Rolling As Team Operates Rover From Home
Apr 15, 2020 (JPL)
On March 20, 2020, nobody on the team was present at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is based. It was the first time ...
Mars Helicopter attached to Perseverance Mars rover
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
Over the weekend, 884 pounds (401 kilograms) of hydrazine monopropellant were loaded into the descent stage's four fuel tanks. As the aeroshell containing the d...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakes
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Perseverance received its six flight wheels on March 30, 2020. While the rover took a test drive last December, it was on "flight spares" that wouldn't be makin...
Choosing rocks on Mars to bring to Earth
Apr 06, 2020 (ESA)
Perseverance is a standalone mission seeking signs of habitable conditions on our neighbour planet, but it is also part of the international Mars Sample Return ...
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