February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... returned from rover activities (such as Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity) but are challenging to determine due to the absence of... Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on board the Curiosity rover, which obtained some high-magnification images of the...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...young scientist Yami, while she is monitoring transmissions from Mars Curiosity rover. Now, the history of how Cosmo got to ...’ in an elite space learning academy, where intellectual curiosity, imagination, and pursuit of knowledge are rewarded. Even...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... too, including China. After India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), it was this flight which aroused more curiosity and public interest compared to some of the other Indian space science missions. Only three of the 104...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
Views of space weather have undergone significant changes, transforming it from scientific curiosity to commercially-recognised threat. Historically, awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...rover’s wheels are 50 cm in diameter and about 40 cm wide. International perspective Using data from radiation detectors carried by Curiosity, scientists have estimated the instance of cancer could increase by five per cent, which is higher than NASA...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... exploration missions Successful robotic systems currently operating on the surface of Mars, such as the Mars Science Laboratory ‘Curiosity’ and the ‘Opportunity’ Mars Exploration Rover, were provided with locomotion systems all designed based on the...
