23 June 2016
Newly found mineral on Mars hints at explosive volcanism
... cover vast areas called flood basalt provinces, but on Mars, tridymite was not thought to be important or even present..."I always tell fellow planetary scientists to expect the unexpected on Mars," said Doug Ming, ARES chief scientist at Johnson and ...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... in Martian meteorites found on Earth, and about 100 times greater in concentration than prior detections of organic carbon on Mars' surface. While the discovery is one of the most tantalising searches yet to indicate that biological processes were...
10 October 2016
Risk of chronic dementia for astronauts heading to Mars
...exposure could face astronomers on a long-haul trip to Mars say scientists. Studies by scientists at University of California ... astronauts deployed on a two-to-three-year round trip to Mars," said Limoli. "The space environment poses unique hazards to...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... to broadcast radio signals. The consortium’s CubeSats are likely to perform more complex tasks such as taking images of Mars and as such will need to be bigger. Nonetheless, preliminary work conducted by the consortium has shown that they...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
...ISS, Elon Musk is pushing forward with plans to reach Mars with ever increasing ambitious flight tests of its Starship rocket...-fuelled Raptor engine SpaceX intends to use to reach Mars. Although SN5 featured a single Raptor, the operational Starship...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
..., interim director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian rock and...excited and proud to see the system perform so well on Mars and take the first step for returning samples to Earth”,...
