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...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... by scientists in the US and UK have found that such a situation has the potential to allow photosynthetic life to develop on Mars without extensive planetary-scale modifications. Despite the name, aerogels, of which there are a few varieties, do not...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
... widespread damage as it thundered over land. Without plate tectonics to cause huge landslips, it is expected that any tsunamis on Mars would also be generated by an impacting body striking its surface. So the hunt has been on to find signs of the...
24 October 2019
SpaceX confirm plans to build cities on the Moon and Mars
...there however. The company plans to build propellant depots on Mars and utilise in situ resources in order to provide basic... Wooster´s statements pan out as suggested then SpaceX could make Mars home to vast swathes of people long before NASA gets the...
13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
...tantalising correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year," Atreya said. "I think there's something to it. I ...still a lot of work ahead for the SAM team and Mars’ atmospheric gases will be continued to be monitored so that...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... orbiter will be equally laden with equipment, including a Mars ion and neutral particle analyser, and energetic particles analyser,...is launched, it will take about seven months to reach Mars, and the final procedure of landing will only last about ...
