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Key ExoMars Rover part ships from Aberystwyth
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
The infrared spectrometer, named Enfys, will be a part of the suite of remote sensing instruments onboard the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover. The Rosalind Fran...
Martian craters record repeated ice ages as planetary ice stores dwindle
Oct 10, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Associate Professor Trishit Ruj of Okayama University, with colleagues Hanaya Okuda, Hitoshi Hasegawa, and Tomohiro Usui, the team mapped glacial landfor...
Computer models point to crew diversity as key to resilient Mars missions
Oct 09, 2025 (SPX)
The model linked individual differences across the Big Five traits to mission roles such as engineer, medic, and pilot, then tracked emergent team outcomes unde...
Two decades of Mars images reveal fast moving dust devils and stronger winds
Oct 09, 2025 (SPX)
The open catalogue, available is online, aggregates locations for all 1,039 events and motion vectors for 373 of them. Clustering highlights known source region...
Mars dust devils point to planet wide gale force winds
Oct 09, 2025 (SPX)
The study mined European orbiter data from CaSSIS on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and HRSC on Mars Express. "Using a state-of-the-art deep learning approach,...
Curtin powers global push to find life on Mars and advance autonomy
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Curtin signed a Statement of Strategic Intent to formalise the LifeSpringsMars Working Group, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India-based technolog...
Martian skies reveal intricate atmospheric layers in new orbiter images
Oct 01, 2025 (SPX)
The data were obtained on January 21, 2024, while the spacecraft passed 400 km above Terra Cimmeria in Mars's southern highlands. From within the planet's shado...
Technique Could Reveal Hidden Habitats on Moon and Mars
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
The experiments, conducted near Flagstaff, Arizona, and Tulelake, California, used terrain with geologic features similar to those of planetary lava fields. By ...
Researchers ID new mineral on Mars, providing insight on potential early life
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
Mars gets its trademark red hue from the abundance of iron on its surface, but that's just what can be seen with the naked eye. The various minerals on the Red ...
Wind driven rovers show promise for low cost Mars missions
Sep 26, 2025 (SPX)
The five metre wide rovers are designed to roll with martian winds, dispersing across the surface to collect simultaneous data on the planet's atmosphere and te...
Volcanic sulfur gases may have warmed early Mars and supported potential life
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
Analyzing Martian meteorite data, the team ran over 40 simulations testing how carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur gases behaved under different conditions. Their find...
NASA's ESCAPADE craft returns to Florida for fall mission to Mars
Sep 23, 2025 (UPI)
NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesda...
Mars polar vortex traps cold and builds seasonal ozone layer
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
"The atmosphere inside the polar vortex, from near the surface to about 30 kilometres high, is characterised by extreme cold temperatures, about 40 degrees Cels...
Predicting Martian aurora to safeguard future explorers
Sep 19, 2025 (SPX)
The rover first recorded a ground-level aurora in 2024. Now, at the Europlanet Science Congress - Division of Planetary Science meeting in Helsinki, Dr Elise Wr...
New Mars research reveals multiple episodes of habitability in Jezero Crater
Sep 19, 2025 (SPX)
By analyzing high-resolution geochemical data from the rover, scientists have identified two dozen types of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, that help re...
Natural forces may deliver organics to ESA rover on Mars
Sep 17, 2025 (SPX)
Scheduled for launch in 2028, the European Space Agency mission will target Oxia Planum, a clay-rich plain shaped by water billions of years ago. Researchers sa...
Perseverance Meets the Megabreccia
Sep 11, 2025 (JPL)
The terrain we are exploring is known as megabreccia: a chaotic mixture of broken rock fragments likely produced during ancient asteroid impacts. Some blocks ma...
Clues to ancient Martian chemistry revealed by Perseverance rover
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
Coordinating orbital hyperspectral imaging with Perseverance's ground observations, researchers confirmed widespread deposits of clays and carbonates, both mark...
'Potential biosignatures' found in ancient Mars lake
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
Led by NASA and featuring key analysis from Imperial College London, the work has uncovered a range of minerals and organic matter in Martian rocks that point t...
Researchers uncover potential biosignatures on Mars
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
The findings, published by a large international team of scientists, focus on a region of Jezero Crater known as the Bright Angel formation - a name chosen from...
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