MARS

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Mars loses water to space during warm, stormy seasons
Jan 10, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists have been trying to figure out where all the water went and how fast it disappeared. New research, published this week in the journal Science, sugges...
Martian water could disappear faster than expected
Jan 09, 2020 (SPX)
The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars: sunlight and chemistry disassociate water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen at...
Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions
Dec 28, 2019 (AFP)
The rover has been constructed in a large, sterile room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, where its driving equipment was given it...
NASA's trip to Mars begins in California 'clean room'
Dec 28, 2019 (AFP)
One of two ultra-sterile labs used for spacecraft assembly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the eggshell-white roo...
Promising progress for ExoMars parachutes
Dec 24, 2019 (ESA)
Landing on Mars is a high-risk endeavour with no room for error. In just six minutes, a descent module with its precious cargo cocooned inside has to slow from ...
Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First Drive
Dec 19, 2019 (JPL)
"Mars 2020 has earned its driver's license," said Rich Rieber, the lead mobility systems engineer for Mars 2020. "The test unambiguously proved that the rover c...
Developing a technique to study past Martian climate
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
"We hope to have samples from Mars one day and when we do, we need to be ready to evaluate them. This could help give us a better understanding of how the plane...
Lockheed Martin delivers Mars 2020 rover aeroshell to launch site
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
Because of the large mass and unique entry trajectory profile that could create external temperatures up to 3,800 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat shield uses a til...
Mars Express tracks the phases of Phobos
Dec 16, 2019 (ESA)
Mars has two moons: Phobos and the smaller and more distant Deimos, named after the Greek mythological personifications of fear (Phobos - hence 'phobia') and te...
Newfound aurora in Mars atmosphere the most common
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
At Earth, aurora are commonly seen as colorful displays of light in the night sky near the polar regions, where they are also known as the northern and southern...
MAVEN maps winds in upper atmosphere of Mars that mirror the terrain below and gives clues to climate
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, recently celebrated the five-year anniversary of its entrance into orbit around Mars on September 21....
Scientists map a planet's global wind patterns for the first time, and it's not Earth
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
In 2016, Mehdi Benna and his colleagues proposed to the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) project team that they remotely reprogram the MAVEN space...
NASA's treasure map for water ice on Mars
Dec 12, 2019 (JPL)
A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters will help by providing a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch (2.5 centimeters) below the ...
Two rovers to toll on Mars Again in 2020
Dec 11, 2019 (JPL)
Landing in 2004 to "follow the water," the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity discovered evidence that the planet once hosted running water before becoming a fr...
Mars: we may have solved the mystery of how its landslides form
Dec 11, 2019 (The Conversation)
This seems to indicate that there is no or very little friction present. Friction is the fundamental physical force resisting motion of one surface sliding rela...
Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Research which suggests that structures previously thought to be fossils may, in fact, be mineral deposits could save future Mars missions valuable time and res...
Global storms on Mars launch dust towers into the sky
Nov 27, 2019 (JPL)
Last year, a fleet of NASA spacecraft got a detailed look at the life cycle of the 2018 global dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission. And while ...
Glaciers as landscape sculptors - the mesas of Deuteronilus Mensae
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
When the glaciers retreated during 'warm' (interglacial) periods, they typically left behind landscapes with moraines or ice age lakes. The U-shaped valleys of ...
NASA updates Mars 2020 Mission Environmental Review
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
Detailed analysis of the potential radiological risks associated with launching a spacecraft powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator is part of stand...
Human Missions to Mars
Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)
Serious mission design activities have been ongoing for the past 70 years. The list of crewed mission plans is extensive. For example, scientific expeditions wh...
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