MARS

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Over Six Months Without Word From Opportunity
Dec 24, 2018 (JPL)
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss...
3D photogrammetric evidence for trace fossils at Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater, Mars
Dec 24, 2018 (SPX)
Remarkably, the Haroldswick rock and dark-metallic toned features are part of at least five such similar rock fragments that are located in close proximity to e...
Mars Express gets festive: A winter wonderland on Mars
Dec 21, 2018 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express mission launched on 2 June 2003, and reached Mars six months later. The satellite fired its main engine and entered orbit around the Red Plan...
Mars 2020 rover to capture sound on the Red Planet
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
DPA's d:dicate 4006 Omnidirectional Microphone will capture the high-quality audio while the MMA-A Digital Audio Interface will be used to record and send audio...
InSight places its first instrument on Mars
Dec 21, 2018 (JPL)
"InSight's timetable of activities on Mars has gone better than we hoped," said InSight Project Manager Tom Hoffman, who is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labor...
InSight Engineers Have Made a Martian Rock Garden
Dec 19, 2018 (JPL)
Like NASA's Curiosity rover, InSight has a full-scale working model at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This sister lander, aptly...
Opportunity team performs more frequent communication attempts throughout each day
Dec 17, 2018 (JPL)
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss...
Planetary scientists assist in capturing image of Insight from orbit
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
A rising star at Western University's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), Pilles started his academic career in economic geology but has since ...
NASA's InSight takes its first selfie
Dec 12, 2018 (JPL)
Mission team members have also received their first complete look at InSight's "workspace" - the approximately 14-by-7-foot (4-by-2-meter) crescent of terrain d...
NASA's Mars InSight Flexes Its Arm
Dec 07, 2018 (JPL)
With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from the lander's deck, gently setting them on the Martian surface...
InSight's robotic arm ready for some lifting on Mars
Dec 07, 2018 (UPI)
The robotic arm can be seen in a flexed position, poised to deploy some of InSight's instruments in the coming days. One of those instruments is the craft's sei...
NASA's InSight lander 'hears' wind on Mars
Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)
The strong gusts of wind, blowing between 10 to 15 mph (five to seven meters a second), were captured as they moved over the solar panels on InSight, an unmanne...
Mars 2020 rover mission camera system 'Mastcam-Z' testing begins at ASU
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
On board the delivery truck was precious cargo from Malin Space Science Systems, a test model of "Mastcam-Z," the mast-mounted camera system for NASA's Mars 202...
Life at home on Mars in a Big Sandbox
Dec 03, 2018 (JPL)
"The science team had been hoping to land in a sandy area with few rocks since we chose the landing site, so we couldn't be happier," said InSight project manag...
Over Five Months Without Word From Opportunity
Dec 03, 2018 (JPL)
Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated including on both polarizations. No signal from Opportunity has been ...
Safely on Mars, InSight unfolds its arrays and snaps some pics
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
The $993 million lander, which landed on Monday and appears to be in good shape, will soon begin unfolding its robotic arm and deploying its quake-sensors on th...
Mars Mole HP3 Arrives at the Red Planet
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
"By participating in the InSight mission, Germany is making a major contribution to expanding our knowledge of the Red Planet," emphasises Pascale Ehrenfreund, ...
With InSight on Mars, Scientists Feel Earthly Relief, Get to Work
Nov 28, 2018 (SPX)
"There was the last second where you mentally extrapolated that it should be on the ground now - but they're not saying anything. Nobody said anything for four ...
SpaceBok robotic hopper being tested at ESA's Mars Yard
Nov 28, 2018 (UPI)
SpaceBok was designed by a team of students from a pair of Swiss research universities, ETH Zurich and ZHAW Zurich. Students and researchers designed the robot ...
InSight unfolds to catch some solar rays on Mars
Nov 27, 2018 (JPL)
"The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the spacecraft solar arrays are deployed and recharging the batteries," said Tom Hoffman, In...
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