12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... drill and sample tubes that are among the cleanest hardware ever sent to space. Once on Mars, Perseverance will cache rock and soil samples in its collection tubes. It will then leave some of them on the...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... at least twenty-fold. In February 2021, the Perseverance rover touched down on Mars with the same limited landing...resources available on Mars from these precursor missions like the Perseverance and Curiousity rovers. They will need tools to conduct ...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... of the Mars20 and Tianwen-1 missions respectively, will take samples of Martian regolith and explore surface geology. Perseverance will look for signs of extant or present life; is it conceivable extremophiles may have existed or even exist today...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... we would be in this moment right now,” he said. Bridenstine pointed out the science linking Hope and NASA’s Perseverance rover - Hope is meant to observe, in part, the carbon dioxide dominating Mars’ atmosphere, while an instrument aboard...
March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... is important in the context of survival. When we consider our own desire for our species to not become extinct, to persevere, to go on to new worlds, we must consider the simple question of, ‘To what end?’ It is Moya, as well as her son, Talyn, that...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... own dramatic missteps and failures, each representing a litany of firsts and each reverberating with demonstrations of human perseverance, ingenuity and accomplishment. In 1972, Apollo 17 was the final mission and remains the last time humans...
