14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... larger than the now-defunct Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It is powered by solar panels and is designed to study Mars’ climate, magnetic field, geological structure, and surface composition. Providing the landing is a success, Zhurong has a minimum...
05 July 2021
Hope probe catches striking pictures of auroras at Mars
...sent from the Sun. The ions are funnelled down into Mars' thin and wispy atmosphere by a patchy network of ...the UAE said in a statement last week. Billions of years ago, Mars once had a thicker, warmer atmosphere that allowed liquid water to flow on...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... data show a successful drill hole, but no sample in the tube–something we’ve never seen in testing on Earth,” the Mars rover Twitter account said. To extract samples, a process which is autonomous from beginning to end, Perseverance uses a hollow...
06 September 2021
China develops prototype for its own Mars helicopter
... the Ingenuity team throughout its mission, having a drone on Mars to scout ahead of its rover has clearly paid off. Recently... science team. Few details about what China’s own Mars’ helicopter will be equipped with have been mentioned, other...
24 September 2021
New reactor could turn Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel
...Science assistant professor Jingjie Wu "It's like a gas station on Mars. You could easily pump carbon dioxide through this reactor and produce... materials. Then maybe one day we could live on Mars." But the idea of converting CO2 to another gas ...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... landed missions, which established that the dry, cold Mars we see today was much warmer and wetter billions...mission to the Red Planet this month. China launched its mission to Mars last week named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven"). If China's mission...
