August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
... several environmental missions, that will be aimed at detecting greenhouse gases. Our second key programme is the Emirates Mars Exploration programme, which is managed jointly between ourselves and the United Emirates Space Agency (UESA). Under this...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...in-situ observations from one of the seven successful missions to the surface (Viking 1 and 2 Landers, Pathfinder, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, Phoenix Lander and Curiosity). These salts include sulphates, carbonates, chlorides...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... too low to continue recovery efforts," said John Callas, manager of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project at JPL. Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, seven months after its launch from Cape Canaveral...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... mission is China’s second attempt to reach the Red Planet with a robotic probe, following the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars-exploration spacecraft. Yinghuo-1 was left stranded in Earth orbit after the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... Conference (GLEX 2021), Wang’s speech, themed "The Space Transportation System of Human Mars Exploration" included details of a first crewed mission to Mars that will liftoff in 2033. This will be preceded by a technology preparation phase, whereby...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... samples and return them to Earth, so this landing site sets the stage for the next decade of Mars exploration. “The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion...
