MARS

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Bacteria in rock deep under sea inspire new search for life on Mars
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers estimate that the rock cracks are home to a community of bacteria as dense as that of the human gut, about 10 billion bacterial cells per cubic cent...
The man who wanted to fly on Mars
Apr 02, 2020 (JPL)
This "crazy idea" is the Mars Helicopter, currently at Kennedy Space Center waiting to hitch a ride to the Red Planet on the Mars Perseverance rover this summer...
A Martian mash up: Meteorites tell story of Mars' water history
Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)
Barnes is an assistant professor of planetary sciences in the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. She and her team chemically analyzed the Bla...
NASA Shows Perseverance with Helicopter, Cruise Stage Testing
Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)
Activities to measure mass properties of the Cruise Stage vehicle were performed on the spin table inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Successful t...
Over 10 million names now aboard Perseverance rover bound for Mars
Mar 27, 2020 (SPX)
The chips were then were attached to an aluminum plate on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 16. Scheduled to launch thi...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes a new selfie before record climb
Mar 23, 2020 (JPL)
In front of the rover is a hole it drilled while sampling a bedrock target called "Hutton." The entire selfie is a 360-degree panorama stitched together from 86...
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Gets Its Sample Handling System
Mar 20, 2020 (JPL)
Last week, Perseverance's assembly, test and launch operations team integrated two components that will play key roles in the acquisition, containment and event...
Waves in thin Martian air with wide effects
Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)
A new study [1], led by Gabriella Gilli, of Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA[2]) and Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa (Ciencias ...
Europe-Russia delay mission to find life on Mars
Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)
The unmanned ExoMars, whose mission is to land a robot on the Red Planet to seek out signs of life, was scheduled to launch later this year after experiencing s...
ExoMars to take off for the Red Planet in 2022
Mar 12, 2020 (ESA)
The joint ESA-Roscosmos project team evaluated all the activities needed for an authorisation to launch, in order to analyse the risks and schedule. With due co...
Organic molecules discovered by Curiosity Rover consistent with early life on Mars
Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)
Thiophenes were also recently discovered on Mars, and Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch thinks their presence would be consistent w...
Virginia Middle School names NASA's next Mars rover Perseverance
Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)
"Alex's entry captured the spirit of exploration," said Zurbuchen. "Like every exploration mission before, our rover is going to face challenges, and it's going...
Moreux Crater on Mars offers evidence of dunes and glacial processes
Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)
HRSC was developed and is operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). The systematic processing of the camera data...
Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet
Mar 05, 2020 (JPL)
The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolutio...
Ancient meteorite site on Earth could reveal new clues about Mars' past
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
A paper detailing the work was published in the journal Science Advances. It could help astrobiologists understand the alkalinity, pH and nitrogen content of an...
Seismic activity on Mars resembles that found in the Swabian Jura
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
Eight scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have made contributions to these. The papers describe the wea...
The seismicity of Mars
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
As reported in these articles, InSight recorded 174 events until the end of September 2019. Since then, the measurements have continued leading to more than 450...
First direct seismic measurements of mars reveal a geologically active planet
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
An international team that includes University of Maryland geologists released preliminary results from the InSight mission, which landed a probe on Mars on Nov...
Magnetic field at Martian surface ten times stronger than expected
Feb 25, 2020 (SPX)
In a study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists reveal that the magnetic field at the InSight landing site is ten times stronger than anticipated, and flu...
A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars Mission
Feb 25, 2020 (JPL)
Five of the papers were published in Nature. An additional paper in Nature Geoscience details the InSight spacecraft's landing site, a shallow crater nicknamed ...
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