17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
...successfully land on the Red Planet. The lander, carrying a Mars rover, touched down at its pre-selected landing area in the southern..., adding that the first photos to be taken by the rover are expected to be transferred back to Earth around the end...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). These areas were examined up-close by Opportunity. Geochemical modelling of results from the rover’s Alpha Partical X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) at the ‘Esperance’ outcrop on the Cape York section of the Endeavour rim...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... for clues to help decipher this planet’s past. Rovers such as Curiosity and Opportunity not only have a ... once safely ensconced on the ground, it will be the Mars 2020 rover’s job to take the helicopter to a suitable location ready for its first...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... target to touch down in Jezero Crater at around 3:55 pm EST (8:55 pm GMT) on 18 February, 2021. “Perseverance is NASA’s most ambitious Mars rover mission yet, focused scientifically on finding out whether there was ever any life on Mars in the past...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
...direct-to-Earth” X-band communications were impossible, and the rover could only communicate with Earth solely via MRO and ...Mars – safely ensconced on the martian surface, one of the rovers first activities will be to take pictures of its new home...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
...bedforms (wind-derived ripples in sand that could trap a rover) in several locations. “The Mars community has long coveted ...percent smaller than that for the landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover at Gale Crater in 2012. This allowed the science community ...
