MARS

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NASA's Mars 2020 Mission Drops in on Death Valley
May 27, 2019 (JPL)
During the flight - one in a series - the helicopter (which is not part of the mission and was used just for testing) and its two-person crew flew a pre-planned...
On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
May 24, 2019 (SPX)
In the most detailed analysis of how sands move around on Mars, a team of planetary scientists led by Matthew Chojnacki at the University of Arizona Lunar and P...
Mars 'Actually the Only Planet' Humans Can Go to Escape Earth, Professor Claims
May 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
Professor and presenter Brian Cox has outlined a dismal future for humans aspiring to travel across the universe and step on other planets. The Daily Star repor...
Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
"This is one of the most tangible pieces of evidence yet for the idea that explosive volcanism was more common on early Mars," said Christopher Kremer, a gradua...
Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet's history
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The team made the discovery using measurements gathered by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). SHARAD emits radar waves that...
NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover
May 22, 2019 (JPL)
The rover, a robotic scientist weighing more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilograms), will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climat...
NASA Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath the Surface of Airless Planetary Bodies
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
Rafael Rincon, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and University of Arizona scientist Lynn Carter are using NASA technolo...
Mars 2020 Is Coming Together
May 21, 2019 (JPL)
From the top down, and suspended by cables, is the complete cruise stage, which will power and guide the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its seven-month voyage to the R...
Fly over Mount Sharp on Mars
May 21, 2019 (JPL)
This video highlights several regions on the mountain that are intriguing to Curiosity's scientists, chief among them what the science team calls the "clay-bear...
Exploring life on Mars in the Gobi desert
May 21, 2019 (XNA)
However, a Mars simulation base in the middle of China's Gobi desert might be the perfect place to introduce young, budding astronauts to what life would be lik...
Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
Addressing the problem in Frontiers in Earth Science, Swedish scientists have begun compiling evidence of fossilized microbes in underexplored igneous rock envi...
After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033...or 2060
May 18, 2019 (AFP)
The dates fixed by the space agency are 2024 for the Moon and Mars in 2033, but according to experts and industry insiders, reaching the Red Planet by then is h...
NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars
May 16, 2019 (JPL)
Since entering orbit on March 10, 2006, the spacecraft has been collecting daily science about the planet's surface and atmosphere, including detailed views wit...
How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into space
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
The atmosphere of Mars is cold and rarefied, like the Earth atmosphere at high altitudes. Under such conditions, there is no liquid water, but rather clouds con...
New water cycle on Mars discovered
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany describe this unusual Ma...
Why this Martian full moon looks like candy
May 10, 2019 (JPL)
Odyssey is NASA's longest-lived Mars mission. Its heat-vision camera, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), can detect changes in surface temperature as...
For InSight, dust cleanings will yield new science
May 07, 2019 (JPL)
Dust clearings are also expected for Mars' newest inhabitant, the InSight lander. Because of the spacecraft's weather sensors, each clearing can provide crucial...
Lockheed Martin completes testing milestone for Mars 2020 heat shield
May 05, 2019 (SPX)
The heat shield is half of the large and sophisticated two-part aeroshell that Lockheed Martin is designing and building to encapsulate NASA Jet Propulsion Labo...
Martian Dust Could Help Explain Water Loss, Plus Other Learnings From Global Storm
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
The global Martian dust storm of summer 2018 - the one that blotted out sunlight for weeks and put NASA's beloved Opportunity rover out of business - offered an...
ESA to Lose Member State Support if ExoMars Launch Postponed - Director-General
Apr 26, 2019 (Sputnik)
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry should be able ...
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