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...
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...
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...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
... organic salts if they are present in sufficient amounts. “If we determine that there are organic salts concentrated anywhere on Mars, we’ll want to investigate those regions further, and ideally drill deeper below the surface where organic matter...
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...With SpaceX founder Elon Musk racking up Starship prototypes as fast as he can build them in order to build colonies on Mars – work on SN20, or Ship 20 is currently in progress – and China suggesting it is also going to build a base on the Red Planet...
15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
... for it to remain to be stable – instead it usually evaporates. However other observations suggest that minerals seen in this part of Mars typically contain only a few percent water, much less than is evidenced by these new observations, says Alexey...
