23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles never-before-seen views of a spacecraft landing on another planet, as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars on 18 February. A microphone on the ...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
...oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home.” For rockets or astronauts, ... in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
.... Jezero crater became the target of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission when observations from orbital spacecraft showed that the... before has such well-preserved stratigraphy been visible on Mars,” said Nicolas Mangold, a Perseverance scientist from the ...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
...highlands”, Galofre and colleagues analysed the morphology of valleys on Mars to determine the different ways in which they could have ... 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
... volcanic degassing, atmospheric escape, and crustal hydration on Mars, a team headed by Caltech PhD candidate Eva Scheller...the past. Instead the team suggest that a significant portion of Mars's water — between 30 and 99 percent — is trapped within ...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... 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...
