June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...relevant. Another, not completely unrelated, is the need to formulate quantitative planetary protection constraints for human missions to Mars. This addresses both rationales for planetary protection - protecting the Earth (i.e. humanity) upon return...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
...of five years (as per the ISS Intergovernmental Agreement, Article 22). If such an incident were to occur during a mission to Mars, return to Earth to be dealt with by a terrestrial criminal justice system is clearly not an immediate option. It could...
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
... sequence. It is hoped that Schiaparelli will not succumb to the same fate of many previous ill-fated missions to Mars by performing a controlled landing on the planet’s surface. Schiaparelli is thus designed to be slowed down by aerobraking and the...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
... 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week, scientists working on NASA’s InSight mission reveal Mars’s interior is not only proving to be somewhat quiet, so far, but that its surface is plagued by ‘dustless devils...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
...was imaged by the rover's instruments and later confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern ... director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian ...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
...to return home in a few hours or days. A human mission to Mars and back, however, could take around 500 days and would ... systems and capabilities toward the challenging goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human ...
