08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
..., in May. Last but not least is NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. With a so-far 100 percent success rate when it comes to rovers deployed to the martian surface, Mars 2020 is aiming to touchdown its fifth rover, Perseverance, on 18 February. Going one step...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
... from where it was attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover on 3 April is a major milestone for the 1.8 kilogram rotorcraft... craft small enough to fit onto the rover, light enough to fly in Mars’ thin atmosphere, yet hardy enough to ...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
... Mars really was. Finding signs of past life on Mars is the primary goal of the recent NASA mission which sent the agency’s newest rover,... support for the presence of ice sheets on early Mars,” say the team in their research paper published by...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... Scheller says. The research, which relied on data from telescopes, meteorites, satellite observations, and samples analysed by rovers on Mars, illustrates the importance of having multiple ways of probing the Red Planet, she says. “We conclude that...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
...helicopter took off at 1:31 am EDT (05:31 am GMT), or 12:33 pm local Mars time, rising 5 metres (16 feet) – the same altitude as its second...dimension to future Mars missions.” The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which is parked...
14 February 2018
Martian meteorite to be used as target practice
... meteorites kept at London’s Natural History Museum for target practice ahead of its ambitious Mars 2020 rover mission. And it will send a fragment back to Mars too as a reference guide. A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will...
