01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
...add. Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the ancient environments in Gale Crater in search...found on Mars. To do this, rock samples collected by the rover are slowly cooked in one of its two ovens, that can heat...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring the Gale crater on Mars, weighs in...-period’ comets. Exploring Mars In the last couple of decades, through the Mars rovers and other spacecraft, scientists have learned a lot about Mars’ history, but there ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...far side of the Moon. Last year, it successfully landed a rover on Mars. China completed the launch of its own satellite navigation ...country has launched satellites, established a space station, sent rovers to Mars and the Moon, and plans to explore ...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
...Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft along with the MINERVA-II1 rovers, successfully collected detailed data on the composition ... MASCOT is not alone. Along with the MINERVA-II1 rovers, the overhead Hayabusa2 spacecraft is slowly moving into position ready...
December 2014
The vanity of machines
Me too – Curiosity Mars rover’s selfie at the ‘Windjana’ drilling site. Curiosity has accomplished its main goal by confirming that Mars once possessed conditions favourable for microbial life
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
... limited to satellites for communications, navigation systems and remote sensing. More ambitious projects - lunar and Mars rovers, planetary probes and human exploration aboard the International Space Station (ISS) - have become commonplace. Now...
