MARS

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Citizen scientists help map ridge networks on Mars
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by Aditya Khuller of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Laura Kerber of NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora...
Planetary scientist helps equip rover Perseverance with 4 of the 5 human senses
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in the College of Science at Purdue University, and an expert in Mars robotics technology, led ...
Balancing Risks in the Seitah Region for Flight 24
Apr 06, 2022 (JPL)
The Ingenuity and Mars 2020 teams have big plans for the helicopter at the delta. But they have to get there first, and prior to Flight 24 a crucial decision ha...
NASA's Pioneering Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Awarded Collier Trophy
Apr 06, 2022 (JPL)
The National Aeronautic Association has bestowed the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy on the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, cementing the pio...
Sol 3435: Maybe We Should Switch Names
Apr 05, 2022 (JPL)
Although our weekend remote sensing activities did not execute, Curiosity collected more compositional and close-up imaging data of these interesting, resistant...
NASA's Perseverance rover listens in the thin Martian atmosphere
Apr 04, 2022 (SPX)
A new study that has been published in the scientific journal Nature reveals that the speed of sound on Mars is slower than that on Earth. The study was conduct...
Magma makes marsquakes rock Red Planet
Apr 04, 2022 (SPX)
New research published in Nature Communications shows scientists from ANU and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have discovered 47 previously undetecte...
Making Tracks to the Delta
Apr 04, 2022 (JPL)
That has allowed Perseverance to break previous rovers' records for the distance traveled in one day, now standing at 319.8 m, the distance it traveled on Sol 3...
First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
After NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the ...
Out Like a Lamb for Sols 3430-3431
Apr 01, 2022 (JPL)
The pediment capping rocks that we are currently investigating have revealed fascinating and varied textures and chemistry, which the team is busy trying to int...
Martian brain freeze
Mar 31, 2022 (ESA)
Utopia is one of three major basins in Mars' northern hemisphere (along with Acidalia and Arcadia) and has a diameter of roughly 3 300 km: just under twice the ...
Frozen beauty in northern Mars
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The basin was probably created approximately four billion years ago by the impact of an asteroid that may have been over 200 kilometres in diameter. Over time, ...
Sols 3428-3429 has the science definitely overflowing
Mar 30, 2022 (JPL)
This workspace ("Hartle Loup") has examples of different textures, bands of "vuggy" (the little holes or pits that you can see in the above image) material and ...
Mounds of ice in craters give new insight into Mars' past climate
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
The study was published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, which publishes short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth...
Sols 3425-3427: Vuggy Buggy
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
This vuggy rock in the "Hartle Loup" outcrop seemed particularly unique relative to the other rocks on the Greenheugh Pediment that we've seen to-date. We chose...
Sample Tally for the Crater Floor Campaign
Mar 29, 2022 (JPL)
During our crater floor campaign, we kept Perseverance busy! As we learned more about our surroundings, we characterized the rocks that make up the crater floor...
Next steps for ExoMars with the rover ready
Mar 29, 2022 (ESA)
Although the 2022 launch window for the mission is no longer possible following the suspension of cooperation with Roscosmos, the mission's System Qualification...
SENER and Aerdron team up to develop drone to fly on Mars
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
SENER Aeroespacial is the company responsible for spearheading the project, in concert with AERDRON. SENER Aeroespacial has extensive experience in the design, ...
China releases images of Martian dust taken by Tianwen-1 orbiter
Mar 25, 2022 (XNA)
Released by the China National Space Administration on Thursday, the new pictures with a resolution of 0.5 meters were captured by a camera on the probe, which ...
Turning astronaut waste into fuel on Mars
Mar 25, 2022 (ESA)
Borja Pozo from Tekniker explains: "We aim to make the first reactor to produce space propellant on Mars using the planet's air, which is 95% carbon dioxide. Th...
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