23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
...’t just the stuff we breathe. Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home.” For rockets or astronauts, oxygen is key, said MOXIE’s principal investigator, Michael Hecht...
15 August 2016
Was early Mars warmed by cirrus cloud cover?
...clouds, higher atmospheric CO2 pressures, and smaller particle sizes, the efficiency of the models decreased. For Mars to be warmed by cirrus clouds, a limiting set of factors including an atmosphere of 0.5 bar and 1 km thick cirrus clouds are needed...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
...that would take 100 people and 80 days to get to Mars and eventually in as little as 30 days. The system ... According to a timeline outlined by Mr Musk in his presentation the first Mars flight could take place in 2022 in a spacecraft he would like to ...
23 November 2016
Massive ice deposits found under the surface of Mars
... Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined that water ice, which makes up half or more of an underground layer in a large region of Mars, holds about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes in North America. The scalloped...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
... provides a distinct setting in which to mimic an isolated Mars-like environment. The site is accessible all year round, ... how contact with recipients on Earth would work, as a Mars-like 20-minute delay on message reception each way is imposed ...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
...involvement in over 210 space missions. The company’s Autonomous Systems Group will also be contributing to the ESA Mars rover mission. Although the UK is facing withdrawal from the European Union in a process known as “Brexit,” as ESA is independent...
