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...
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...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... by 2024 in preparation for a human mission to Mars. SAMPLR will be mounted on a yet-to-be-named lander and will be used to acquire samples of lunar regolith. The arm is a flight spare from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, which included the long...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA Mars explorers The weak factor so far has been the government...also become experts on pioneering projects related to the exploration of Mars. For the ExoMars mission, the design and construction...
04 March 2016
NASA Expected to Make a Decision on InSight Mars Lander in the Near Future
...In a presentation to a meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) on March 2, Bruce Banerdt, principal ... in California, landing on the Elysium Planitia region of Mars on November 26, the same landing site as previously planned...
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...
