15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... to gather data on the arid and dusty martian surface. Twice as massive as China’s two lunar rovers, the Mars rover will be equipped with a packed payload of instruments including a subsurface detection radar, a climate detector, and a Mars magnetic...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... of missions lined up, including the deployment of their Rashid rover on the lunar surface. Expected to reach the Moon ...lander, Lunar Outpost’s M1 Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover will also scoop up some regolith, take a picture of ...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... soil, to seek out possible past or current microbial life in the subsurface soil. The UK, which is building the rover at the Airbus factory in Stevenage, won the naming rights at the ESA Ministerial Council in 2014 as it is the key...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... a quest for potentially habitable conditions, landers and surface rovers have carried out up-close, in-depth analyses of soil and..., as viewed in false colour by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity The story of how Earth ended up with its ...
