17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
...kilometers) left to travel in space, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is less than 48 hours away ... on nylon tethers. The rover is expected to touch down on the surface of Mars at human walking speed (about 2.7 kph or 1.7 mph) at around 3:55 pm...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... Marscopter to the surface of the planet. When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully deployed the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet ...that might be part of future robotic and human missions to Mars. Its first objective however, is just to last the ...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
...itself, but will collect the material left by NASA’s Mars 2020 rover and will transfer them to an ascent vehicle, ...Red planet, and returned to Earth by a separate spacecraft. The Mars 2020 rover is on the search for, amongst other things, signs of...
08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
...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 further than previous rover missions, ...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... on fifth place by just one day to the UAE’s Hope Probe. The duo will soon be joined by NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, that will make its arrival in just over a week. Tianwen-1's first snapshot...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
Touchdown! It is success for NASA as the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance spacecraft – the latest and most complex mission to the Red Planet – lands successfully on Mars after its seven month interplanetary journey. Perservance hit the atmosphere ...
