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 ...
28 June 2016
Oxides discovered on Mars hint at an oxygen-rich past
... deposits of manganese oxides until after the oxygen levels in our atmosphere rose,” said Lanza. It is possible that Mars’s atmosphere had an abundance of oxygen due to the planets weak magnetic field. Without a protective shield, ionising radiation...
19 April 2021
Success for NASA as Ingenuity makes the first ever powered, controlled flight on Mars
...hours for data to be returned to the control room from Mars to learn whether the flight had taken place or not. ...have been thinking for so long about having our Wright brothers moment on Mars, and here it is,” Aung said. “We will take a moment ...
