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 ...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... in situ rover. Between them, the mission scientific objectives include; mapping the morphology and geological structure of Mars, investigating the surface soil characteristics and water-ice distribution and analysing the surface material composition...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater... is also designed to better understand the geology and climate of Mars, and to pave the way for human exploration beyond the Moon...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
...highlands”, Galofre and colleagues analysed the morphology of valleys on Mars to determine the different ways in which they could have ... support for the presence of ice sheets on early Mars,” say the team in their research paper published by...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
... making the early habitability of the planet possible, add the team in their paper. If water was available on Mars earlier than thought, it suggests it could be a natural byproduct of some process early on in planet formation, rather than delivered...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... became lunar-like in composition through millions or billions of years of space weathering. Alternatively, the object came from Mars itself. “The shape of the 101429 spectrum tells us that it is rich in pyroxene, a mineral found in the outer layer...
