18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... and wind, and a ground-penetrating radar. Riding along, stowed under Perseverance’s belly pan, will be the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Part of Perseverance’s mission is to collect samples to leave behind in caches that a future rover could collect...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... Marscopter to the surface of the planet. When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully deployed the Perseverance rover on the Red ... that might be part of future robotic and human missions to Mars. Its first objective however, is just to last the night...
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...
