November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... and the assumed scenario for the replacement of a dental restoration is based on the fictional accident of an astronaut during a Mars mission. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke escaped injury after he accidentally fell over during the setup...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... were perhaps conducive to sustaining life were prevalent on early Mars. "About 3.4 billion years ago, a big meteorite impact...could help keep the water liquid. ... If life existed on Mars, these icy tsunami lobes are very good candidates to search for...
11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
... taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. According to lead digital design... dust devils were cleaning the panels - as happened with Nasa's Mars Exploration Rovers," he said. "One possibility is that it could...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
...Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "It's taken more than a decade to bring InSight from a concept to a spacecraft approaching Mars - and even longer since I was first inspired to try to undertake this kind of mission," said Bruce Banerdt...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... produced in landfill areas as things start to decay. On Mars, given how barren the planet’s surface is now, finding methane..., our data suggest that the presence of methane on Mars might be characterised by small, short emissions and transient events...
09 March 2020
Organic molecules found on Mars could be consistent with early life, says study
...be consistent with the presence of early life on Mars, says astrobiologist Dirk Schulze‑Makuch at Washington State University... conceivable pathways that allowed the thiophenes to form on Mars. Thiophenes consist of four carbon atoms, four hydrogen ...
