November 2017
Roving the red planet
... the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on-board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). These areas ... future rovers, ESA’s ExoMars, and NASA’s Mars 2020, to build on this picture, and potentially build the case for a ...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
...as NASA gets ready to send its Mars 2020, Perseverance rover to the Red Planet ...of ozone’s role in the planet’s climate. “Ozone and CO2 are important in Mars’ atmosphere. By not accounting for these gases properly, we run the risk of mischaracterising...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... InSight lander – and in the clean rooms of JPL, where the upcoming Mars 2020 rover is taking shape." The final transmission, sent via the 70-meter Mars Station antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Complex in California, ended a multifaceted...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
...send a small Marscopter to the Red Planet with its Mars 2020 mission and now the agency has said it will send ... nearly double the distance travelled to date by all the Mars rovers combined. “Visiting this mysterious ocean world could revolutionise ...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
... four analog missions, including the all-female Sensoria Mars 2020 mission at the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation...(HI-SEAS) Habitat as well as the NASA-funded four-month Mars mission at HI-SEAS. She will be only the fourth African...
April 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... like this: a robot arm on a lander would fit a series of sample tubes, based on those developed for the Mars 2020 rover, into a sample return canister capable of returning 130 grams of material to Earth. If needed, the sample return...
