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...
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...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... Lockheed Martin’s programme manager over the production of the Mars 2020 aeroshell, both the heat shield, or lower section... similar ordeal during the descent of NASA’s InSight probe to Mars’ surface in 2018, including the time lag for confirmation of...
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...
