... larger than the now-defunct Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It is powered by solar panels and is designed to study Mars’ climate, magnetic field, geological structure, and surface composition. Providing the landing is a success, Zhurong has a minimum...
...sent from the Sun. The ions are funnelled down into Mars' thin and wispy atmosphere by a patchy network of ...the UAE said in a statement last week. Billions of years ago, Mars once had a thicker, warmer atmosphere that allowed liquid water to flow on...
... data show a successful drill hole, but no sample in the tube–something we’ve never seen in testing on Earth,” the Mars rover Twitter account said. To extract samples, a process which is autonomous from beginning to end, Perseverance uses a hollow...
... the Ingenuity team throughout its mission, having a drone on Mars to scout ahead of its rover has clearly paid off. Recently... science team. Few details about what China’s own Mars’ helicopter will be equipped with have been mentioned, other...
...Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu "It's like a gas station on Mars. You could easily pump carbon dioxide through this reactor and produce... materials. Then maybe one day we could live on Mars." But the idea of converting CO2 to another gas ...
... landed missions, which established that the dry, cold Mars we see today was much warmer and wetter billions...mission to the Red Planet this month. China launched its mission to Mars last week named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven"). If China's mission...