October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Testing techniques There is a growing need to understand the budgets of different resources on the Moon, asteroids...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... will be important. The RAD instrument on the Curiosity rover provided radiation data on its flight to Mars, illustrating ...from these precursor missions like the Perseverance and Curiousity rovers. They will need tools to conduct scientific research. ...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... of the Space Research Institute, in news reported by Russian news site RIA Novosti. “It is best suited for a lunar rover. Along the route we will be able to determine the elemental composition of the surface in a strip about 30 centimetres wide...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... the Google Lunar X PRIZE contest for developing a private lunar rover. Selenokhod’s founders poured their own money into the project and began... new heavy rocket for colonising the Moon. The Selenokhod rover never made it to the Moon, but its eyesight...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...or the wings of the space shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” to the Martian surface, which included ... on Mars from precursor missions like the Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...arm or solar arrays. Robotic science elements, such as rovers, that are pre-staged on Mars are another contribution ...the samples selected and cached on the surface by the Mars 2020 rover, a sample selected by a later robotic mission, or a sample...
