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Continue readingNASA’s experimental Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has now flown eight times on the Red Planet, traveling farther than scientists hoped would be possible. The little chopper made its most recent Mars…
Continue readingA catalyst that destroys perchlorate in water could clean Martian soil. A team led by University of California Riverside engineers has developed a catalyst to remove a dangerous chemical from water…
Continue readingRocket Lab now has Mars in its crosshairs as well. The California-based company, which will send a NASA cubesat mission to the moon this fall and aims to launch its…
Continue readingChina is looking at the ways of getting astronauts to Mars and back safely and potentially establishing a long-term presence on the Red Planet. That’s according to a senior Chinese…
Continue readingLast month on 91st Martian day, the Mars Helicopter began to oscillate, adjusting its speed and rocking back and forth, which was not in the flight plan. The Flight…
Continue readingNasa has finally assembled its first Space Launch System (SLS), a massive rocket that will carry humans to the Moon once again. Engineers at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida…
Continue readingFrom the Sojourner rover, which landed on Mars in 1997, to Perseverance, which touched down in February, the robots of the Red Planet share a defining feature: wheels. Rolling is…
Continue readingChina’s Mars rover Zhurong poses for a self portrait with its lander in this photo from Utopia Planitia released on June 11, 2021. (Image credit: CNSA) STUFF HERE Related: China’s…
Continue readingBy Andrew Jones The Zhurong rover and its landing platform (right) CNSA China has released the first batch of science images from its Zhurong Mars rover, following its successful landing…
Continue readingChina has released four new photos from its Zhurong rover on Mars, showing the craft and a lander bearing small national flags. The CNSA said Zhurong placed a remote camera…
Continue readingThe HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this photo of China’s Mars rover Zhurong (lower bright spot) and its lander on June 6, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona) A…
Continue readingNASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity now has seven Red Planet flights under its belt. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper took to the Martian skies again on Tuesday (June 8), making its…
Continue readingNASA’s Perseverance rover has kicked off its highly anticipated science campaign with a Red Planet road trip. The car-sized Perseverance landed inside Mars’ 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb….
Continue readingWatermelons have probably not been discovered on Mars, even if The New York Times bizarrely, and briefly, claimed they had been. The prestigious newspaper published – then quickly deleted –…
Continue readingNASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will take to the air again this weekend, if all goes according to plan. Ingenuity’s handlers are prepping the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper for its seventh…
Continue readingIt sounds like the stuff of science fiction. In one European team’s proposal for off-world construction, swarms of autonomous, cooperative robots would dig and reinforce underground ant-like colonies for human…
Continue readingNASA’s Perseverance rover has now called the Red Planet home for 100 Martian days. The car-sized Perseverance and its little helicopter buddy Ingenuity landed together inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on…
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