04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... Scientist, NASA, Mr. David Parker, Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration, ESA, Mr. Charles Whetsel, Manager of Mars Program Formulation Office, NASA JPL, Mr. Masaki Fujimoto, Director, Department of Solar Systems Sciences, JAXA, and...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
...25 April, 2021 than in any tests it went through on Earth. The helicopter took off at 1:31 am EDT (05:31 am GMT), or 12:33 pm local Mars time, rising 5 metres (16 feet) – the same altitude as its second flight. Then it zipped downrange 50 metres (164...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
...mission. It was February 2007 when we finally arrived at Mars. Preparation work for this phase had been very complex ...achieved on the long journey to the target comet! As predicted, Mars had deflected our trajectory back to Earth, which we reached in ...
19 March 2018
An early start for Mars's oceans?
... making it top heavy, so to speak and in doing so, shifted Mars’s pole of rotation at the same time. If this happened, the ...lifted up. For this to be case though, it means that Mars’s ocean formed much earlier than thought; one shoreline known as ...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
... also found, the team add. Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the ..., and tunable laser spectrometer, designed to analyse gases found on Mars. To do this, rock samples collected by the rover are slowly...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
...would be pushing the limits of experimental technology. Now well past Mars, the daring twins seem to have reached their limit. It's... unlikely they'll be heard from again. MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a ...
