February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... (such as a basaltic regolith). For Mars, the surface properties are commonly based on the information returned from rover activities (such as Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity) but are challenging to determine due to the absence of returned samples...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... any given landing site, plus all the boot prints and rover tracks. So, there seems to be a good argument for ...surface, distance measurement and error, planned wheel speed for rovers, flyby path for hoppers, and contamination prevention protocols. So,...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
...Nature Astronomy just days ahead of the mission's speculated launch, the rover will likely attempt to land at Utopia Planitia; a huge basin...packed on both the orbiter and the in situ rover. Between them, the mission scientific objectives include; ...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... solid rocket booster helping the Atlas V launch the Mars rover separated from the booster as planned. Two minutes later, ... see today. Instead, evidence discovered by on the ground rovers and orbital missions point to long, stable periods where liquid...
14 February 2018
Martian meteorite to be used as target practice
... Mars too as a reference guide. A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will also be carried by the rover - now being built at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California - to serve as target practice for a high...
29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... robot, which is about the size of an SUV and weighs 1,040 kilograms (2,300 pounds) is NASA's fifth Mars rover and its most advanced to date. It comes equipped with a small helicopter called Ingenuity that will attempt...
