MARS

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Mars scientists investigate ancient life in Australia
Nov 18, 2019 (JPL)
"While we expect to find many significant rocks during both Mars 2020 and ExoMars missions, we also have to leave open the possibility we could find one or more...
China completes Mars lander test ahead of 2020 mission
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022. Thursday's hovering and obstacle-avoidan...
ESA's Mars orbiters did not see latest Curiosity methane burst
Nov 14, 2019 (ESA)
Methane is of such fascination because on Earth a large proportion is generated by living things. It is known that methane has a lifetime of several hundred yea...
NASA's Mars 2020 will hunt for microscopic fossils
Nov 13, 2019 (JPL)
A paper published in the journal Icarus identifies distinct deposits of minerals called carbonates along the inner rim of Jezero, the site of a lake more than 3...
With Mars methane mystery unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a new one: oxygen
Nov 13, 2019 (SPX)
Over the course of three Mars years (or nearly six Earth years) an instrument in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) portable chemistry lab inside the belly of NA...
At future Mars landing spot, scientists spy mineral that could preserve signs of past life
Nov 13, 2019 (SPX)
"Using a technique we developed that helps us find rare, hard-to-detect mineral phases in data taken from orbiting spacecraft, we found two outcrops of hydrated...
Mars Express completes 20,000 orbits around the Red Planet
Oct 30, 2019 (SPX)
On 26 October 2019, this spacecraft completed its twenty-thousandth orbit around Mars. Mars Express is in good company in Martian orbit: NASA's Mars 2001 Odysse...
Mars 2020 stands on its own six wheels
Oct 28, 2019 (JPL)
The rover's legs (the black tubing visible above the wheels) are composed of titanium, while the wheels are made of aluminum. Measuring 20.7 inches (52.5 centim...
Martian landslides not conclusive evidence of ice
Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, published in Nature Communications, show for the first time that the unique structures on Martian landslides from mountains several kilometres hig...
New selfie shows Curiosity, the Mars chemist
Oct 25, 2019 (JPL)
The selfie was taken on Oct. 11, 2019 (Sol 2,553) in a location named "Glen Etive" (pronounced "glen EH-tiv"), which is part of the "clay-bearing unit," a regio...
Maxar delivers robotic arm for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
Oct 24, 2019 (SPX)
As the Mars 2020 rover explores the red planet, the SHA will process and store samples acquired from the Martian surface. The SHA is the sixth robotic arm that ...
Naming a NASA Mars rover can change your life
Oct 23, 2019 (JPL)
Just think about what it means to have something you named conducting history-making science on the Red Planet - or, if you are one of nine finalists, getting t...
Mars 2020 Rover unwrapped and ready for more testing
Oct 22, 2019 (JPL)
"The Mars 2020 rover will be collecting samples for future return to Earth, so it must meet extraordinary cleanliness measures to avoid the possibility of conta...
Mars once had salt lakes similar to Earth
Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)
Marion Nachon, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A and M, and colleagues have had their work published in t...
Mars InSight's 'Mole' is moving again
Oct 18, 2019 (JPL)
The recent movement is the result of a new strategy, arrived at after extensive testing on Earth, which found that unexpectedly strong soil is holding up the mo...
The Mars Mole and the challenging ground of the Red Planet
Oct 18, 2019 (JPL)
In addition to a radiometer for measuring the surface temperature, the core component of the experiment is the Mars 'Mole' - a 40-centimetre-long penetrometer d...
MRO HiRISE camera views InSight and Curiosity on Mars
Oct 17, 2019 (JPL)
HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landing site in the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet for changes to the surface, such as dust-devil tracks. Taken ...
ExoMars parachute progress
Oct 16, 2019 (ESA)
The mission needs two parachutes - each with its own pilot chute for extraction - to help slow the descent module prior to landing on Mars. Once the atmospheric...
River relic spied by Mars Express
Oct 11, 2019 (ESA)
The area of Mars shown in these new images from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft lies just south of the planet's equator, and is known to have been shaped by a mix...
Global analysis of submarine canyons may shed light on Martian landscapes
Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)
In an effort to shed light on these mysterious underwater features, Stanford researchers analyzed a collection of global images from an online repository of dat...
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