21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... north of the Martian equator. Western Isidis presents some of the oldest and most scientifically interesting landscapes Mars has to offer. Mission scientists believe the 45-kilometer (28-mile-wide) crater, once home to an ancient river delta...
12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
...Review Board set up to review the multi-year Mars missions. The Mars Sample Return campaign foresees NASA and ESA launching multiple... to Earth. NASA has released the report of a Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board, which it established to ...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... Challenge, which is open to entrants from across the globe. Teams put forward an architectural concept for a 3D-printed Mars base, with the aim of fostering the development of technologies necessary to additively manufacture a habitat using ISRU and...
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...
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 ...
