MARS

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Colonizing Mars means contaminating Mars
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
If the red planet is sterile, a human presence there would create no moral or ethical dilemmas on this front. But if life does exist on Mars, human explorers co...
NASA wants people on Mars within 25 years
Nov 13, 2018 (AFP)
The US space agency believes it can put humans on the Red Planet within 25 years, but the technological and medical hurdles are immense. "The cost of solving th...
Oxia Planum favoured for ExoMars surface mission
Nov 12, 2018 (ESA)
The proposal will be reviewed internally by ESA and Roscosmos with an official confirmation expected mid-2019. At the heart of the ExoMars programme is the ques...
Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on Mars
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers created the piece of music by scanning a picture from left to right, pixel by pixel, and looking at brightness and colour information and combining ...
How to drive a robot on Mars
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier. "Drive forward 10 meters, turn to an azimuth of 45 degrees, now ...
Landing site selected for UK's ExoMars rover in 2021
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
Due to land in 2021, the ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to travel across the Martian surface and drill down to determine if evidence of life is bur...
BFR Spawns New Mars TV Series with Homesteading and Profiteers
Nov 11, 2018 (SPX)
Will it survive, or will you survive? The Mars effort has potential to continue the acceptance of man stepping out. What is it? Life is in water and we now know...
Five Months Since We Received A Signal From Opportunity
Nov 08, 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...
Curiosity on the move again
Nov 07, 2018 (JPL)
After more than two weeks of science operations, and now with this latest drive, the mission is back to business. The team plans to drill a new target later thi...
Evidence of outburst flooding indicates plentiful water on early Mars
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
Over the past two decades, rovers Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity have sent back invaluable data to scientists who are trying to interpret the pla...
The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain Perfect
Nov 06, 2018 (JPL)
Mars also plays a part in this visually compelling equation, with the high-definition imagery from the Curiosity rover of the ridges and rounded buttes at the b...
Water cycle along the northern rim of Hellas Basin throughout Mars' history
Nov 02, 2018 (SPX)
Sediments partially filled the depressions or formed fan shaped deposits within these paleolakes. Some of these paleolakes formed in fresh to degraded impact cr...
Naturally occurring 'batteries' fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars
Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)
The group's analysis of a trio of Martian meteorites that fell to Earth - Tissint, Nakhla, and NWA 1950 - showed that they contain an inventory of organic carbo...
Five things to know about InSight's Mars landing
Nov 01, 2018 (JPL)
On Nov. 26, NASA will try to safely set a new spacecraft on Mars. InSight is a lander dedicated to studying the deep interior of the planet - the first mission ...
NASA launches a new podcast to Mars
Oct 31, 2018 (JPL)
Launching this week, the eight-episode series "On a Mission" follows the InSight lander as it travels hundreds of millions of miles and attempts to land on Mars...
NASA will keep trying to contact stalled Mars rover Opportunity
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
Now, the space agency plans to keep trying, rather than abandon efforts some time this month, as officials had said in late August. "After a review of the progr...
Desert test drive for Mars rover controlled from 1,000 miles away
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
The ExoFiT Mars rover testing team will use a new model called 'Charlie' to test hardware, software and to practise science operations for the future European S...
Third ASPIRE test confirms Mars 2020 parachute a go
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
When onboard sensors determined the payload had reached the appropriate height and Mach number (38 kilometers altitude, Mach 1.8), the payload deployed a parach...
Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud
Oct 26, 2018 (ESA)
In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature is not linked to volcanic activity but is rather a water ice cloud driven by the influence of the volcano's l...
NASA Mars team actively listening out for Opportunity
Oct 25, 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...
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