09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
.... It is scouting the southern Séítah area in the crater to provide aerial reconnaissance before Percy arrives to take a closer... river and a lake within the 45.0 km (28.0 mi) wide crater. Conceivably, microbial life could have lived in Jezero if the ...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... This evidence comes in the form of channels etched into crater walls that lie deep down – roughly 4000 metres – below... various clays, carbonates and silicates within five of the deepest craters – minerals, which on Earth are linked to the emergence ...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
...head towards the location of its second science campaign: Jezero Crater’s delta region. The delta is the fan-shaped remains...a mile) borders two geologic units believed to contain Jezero Crater’s deepest and most ancient layers of exposed bedrock. “Our...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
...team of scientists based in Japan are suggesting that the crater impact at Chicxulub is not solely responsible for the KPg... the Chesapeake Bay, Woodleigh and Popigai impact cratering have not caused the widespread devastation associated with Chicxulub...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
... of three months. Its planned landing site is the Von Kármán crater and once there, its task is to perform a variety of science... by maria, with the rest being littered by craters. One such crater that monopolises the far side's landscape is the South...
10 June 2019
One-kilometre-wide meteorite impact in UK found
... finding the location of the recently identified impact crater and coupled with other geological features such as ... of any impact structure he concludes. The location of the impact crater is centred about 15-20 km west-northwest of Enard Bay (north ...
