October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... of Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVA) on the Moon and Mars. The simulated surface EVAs included egress and ingress from a..., or extreme environments like Antarctica. MOONWALK shows that the exploration and the exploitation of space is an enabler of new...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...analysis of small solar system bodies such as asteroids and comets. Makoto is also involved in JAXA’s NOZOMI (Mars Explorer) and the first Hayabusa mission. Makoto is additionally interested in the issue of planetary defence, which concerns potential...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
...its engines to slow the vehicle down enough to be captured by Mars' gravitational pull. The crucial "braking" operation was activated at ... re-established; “Just now, China’s first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1 probe, implemented near-fire ...
10 January 2024
NASA announces delays to astronaut lunar missions
... programmatic planning to ensure the agency and its partners can successfully accomplish its Moon to Mars exploration goals. With Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, learn how to live and work away...
11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
...taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. According to lead digital design... dust devils were cleaning the panels - as happened with Nasa's Mars Exploration Rovers," he said. "One possibility is that it could still...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... possibility that the gas was produced by biological processes. "Are there signs of life on Mars?" said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, at NASA Headquarters. "We don't know, but these results tell us we are on the...
