Washington DC (UPI) Jul 28, 2021 - NASA officials have changed the agency's plans for its daring and complicated effort to bring actual samples of Mars back to Earth by adding two helicopters and ditching the idea of landing a fetch rover.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2021 - Ingenuity has come a long way from its original airfield, Wright Brothers Field, which is 0.64 miles (1.04 kilometers) to the northeast of our current location. We got here during Flight 9, an end
Beijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2021 - China's Zhurong Mars rover finished exploring a sand dune on the red planet on the first anniversary of the launch of the country's first interplanetary expedition, the China National Space Administ
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 - Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very Broad Band SEIS seismometer, developed in France, the international team of NASA's InSight mission has unveile
Paris (ESA) Jul 24, 2021 - Long-term studies of ozone and water vapour in the atmosphere of Mars could lead to better understanding of atmospheric chemistry for the Earth. A new analysis of data from ESA's Mars Express missio
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 - Mars' surface is known in great detail through exploration using orbiting spacecraft. But until now its interior structure could only be derived indirectly or simulated using computational models. W
Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2021 - China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled 585 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administrati
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 - Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of the InSight mission. This relies on a seismometer whose data acquisition and control electronics were developed
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 23, 2021 - Marsquake data collected by NASA's InSight lander has allowed planetary scientists to more accurately characterize Mars' deep interior, as well as offered clues to the Red Planet's origins.
London UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2021 - A team at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London is paving the way for future rovers to search for meteorites on Mars. The scientists are using the NHM's extensive meteorite collection to test the
Milton Keynes UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2021 - A dust storm that engulfed the entire Red Planet in 2018 destroyed a vortex of cold air around the Martian south pole and brought an early spring to the hemisphere. By contrast, the storm caused onl
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 23, 2021 - The ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin, scheduled to launch in 2022, is tasked with hunting for past life on the Red Planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 22, 2021 - NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist i
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2021 - NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it car
Washington (AFP) July 21, 2021 - The Perseverance Mars rover is preparing to collect its first rock sample from the site of an ancient lake bed, as its mission to search for signs of past life begins in earnest, NASA said Wednesday.
Paris (ESA) Jul 20, 2021 - The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has set new upper limits on how much methane, ethane, ethylene and phosphine is in the martian atmosphere - four so-called 'biomarker' gases that are potential si
