MARS

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ExoMars rover ready for environment testing
Aug 28, 2019 (ESA)
The final pieces of the rover's scientific suite of instruments were attached at the Airbus Defence and Space site in Stevenage over the last weeks. The finishi...
Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for Mars
Aug 27, 2019 (JPL)
The researchers know that any proof of past life on Mars will more than likely be almost microscopic in size. That's where the Pilbara region of North West Aust...
Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Armando Azua-Bustos and colleagues investigated whether microbial life could move across the Atacama Desert using on wind-driven dust particles They sought to d...
A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
The methane puffing from a huge crater on Mars could be a sign of life or other non-biological activity under the planet's surface. Gale crater, which is 154 km...
All instruments onboard Rosalind Franklin rover
Aug 21, 2019 (ESA)
The rover, named after the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin, is part of the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars programme, and is nearing completion at Airbus Defence a...
Ancient Mars was warm with occasional rain, turning cold
Aug 20, 2019 (SPX)
Warm conditions make it much more likely that life would have developed independently on the surface of ancient Mars. Now a new comparison of patterns of minera...
Roscosmos postpones joint ESA ExoMars mission after failed parachute tests
Aug 16, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The launch of the ExoMars-2020 mission is planned to take place during the 'astronomic window' from July 26-August 13, 2020, with landing on Mars scheduled for...
Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
Aug 16, 2019 (JPL)
"The bit carousel is at the heart of the sampling and caching subsystem," said Keith Rosette, Mars 2020 sample handling delivery manager at NASA's Jet Propulsio...
NASA descends on Icelandic lava field to prepare for Mars
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
With its black basalt sand, wind-swept dunes and craggy peaks, the Lambahraun lava field at the foot of Iceland's second biggest glacier, Langjokull, was chosen...
Methane not released by wind on Mars, experts find
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
Methane can be produced over time through both geological and biological routes and since its first detection in the Martian atmosphere in 2003, there has been ...
Dark meets light on Mars
Aug 09, 2019 (ESA)
Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet, due to the characteristic hue of its orb in the sky. Up close, however, the planet is actually covered in all manne...
New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing
Aug 07, 2019 (JPL)
And the rover is far from done, having just drilled its 22nd sample from the Martian surface. It has a few more years before its nuclear power system degrades e...
Optometrists verify Mars 2020 rover's perfect vision
Aug 07, 2019 (JPL)
"We completed the machine-vision calibration of the forward-facing cameras on the rover," said Justin Maki, chief engineer for imaging and the imaging scientist...
MEDLI2 installation on Mars 2020 aeroshell begins
Aug 05, 2019 (JPL)
Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA's Artemis lunar exploration plans will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon b...
Mars 2020 rover does biceps curls
Jul 30, 2019 (JPL)
The rover's arm includes five electrical motors and five joints (known as the shoulder azimuth joint, shoulder elevation joint, elbow joint, wrist joint and tur...
World first as kits designed to extract metals from the Moon and Mars blast off for space station tests
Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)
Mining in space could open up a new frontier in space exploration by giving astronauts the resources they need for long periods in Space, whether on the Moon, M...
Fueling of NASA's Mars 2020 rover power system begins
Jul 26, 2019 (JPL)
"The progression of the Mars 2020 rover project is on schedule," said Zurbuchen. "The decision to begin fueling the MMRTG is another important milestone in keep...
Europe prepares for Mars courier
Jul 26, 2019 (ESA)
This 'take-away' service is called the Earth Return Orbiter, and will be ESA's major contribution to the Mars Sample Return campaign. The ESA Orbiter will carry...
ExoMars radio science instrument readied for Red Planet
Jul 23, 2019 (ESA)
At about 8 x 8 x 20 cm plus a trio of antennas, ESA's Lander Radioscience experiment, or LaRa for short, is a bit bigger than a 1-litre milk carton. But it func...
Mars 2020 Rover: T-Minus One Year and Counting
Jul 22, 2019 (JPL)
"Back when we started this project in 2013, we came up with a timeline to chart mission progress," said John McNamee, Mars 2020 project manager at NASA's Jet Pr...
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