Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2019 - In a little more than seven minutes in the early afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 rover will execute about 27,000 actions and calculations as it speeds through the hazardous transition f
Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 - The SETI Institute and Astrobotic Technology, Inc. are announcing the successful mapping in 3D of the interior of an ice-rich lava tube in Iceland using a LiDAR-equipped drone. The team was investig
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 - Imagine astronauts on Mars, tasked with picking rock samples that will be used by scientists to search for signs of life. But they can only transport a limited number back to Earth. What should they
Coventry, UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 - Researchers at the University of Warwick have been inspired by the unique movement of trembling aspen leaves, to devise an energy harvesting mechanism that could power weather sensors in hostile env
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 - Three years ago, on 14 March 2016, the Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS started its journey to Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. The camera system developed at the University of Bern has
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 - NASA's first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexi
Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 - Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2019 - In the current plan, we start with a dust devil survey to look for them while they are still in season. This is followed by a ChemCam investigation Schiehallion and an RMI mosaic on Motherwell.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 - According to the 1958 law that established NASA, where the first A in NASA stands for aeronautics, the agency is charged with solving the problems of flight within the atmosphere. But the la
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2019 - Over 29 days last spring, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley.
Hamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 - An international team of researchers, which includes scientists from McMaster's School of Geography and Earth Sciences, NASA, and others, is tackling one of the biggest problems of space travel to M
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 - Returning samples from the surface of Mars has been a high-priority goal of the international Mars exploration community for many years. Although randomly collected samples would be potentially inte
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 - Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of p
New Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 - A new study describes the Science Operations component and new results from NASA's Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains (BASALT). The goal of BASALT was to provide evidence-based re
NASA's Mars InSight lander has a probe designed to dig up to 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface and measure heat coming from inside the planet.
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 - Before civilization can move off world it must make sure its structures work on the extraterrestrial foundations upon which they will be built. University of Central Florida researchers are al
