Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2021 - NASA and three international partners have signed a statement of intent to advance a possible robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help identify abundant, accessible ice for future candidat
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2021 - The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet's atmosphere, new research shows. Many of these charged particles, or ions, of oxyge
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2021 - With a suite of new national and international spacecraft primed to explore the Red Planet after their arrival next month, NASA's MAVEN mission is ready to provide support and continue its study of
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2021 - NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft has about 25.6 million miles (41.2M km) remaining in its 292.5-million-mile (470.8M km
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 - The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio signal confirming the rover has landed will seem like an etern
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2021 - Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be ca
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2021 - When three new Mars missions reach the Red Planet in February, recording the first sounds from another planet is to be among the scientific milestones.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 - Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus
Okayama, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature. Aside from the gaseous, liquid, an
Hamilton NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate University, reveals a groundbreaking
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 20, 2021 - One of the Red Planet's famous dust storms has kept the Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for two weeks, but the aircraft is scheduled for its 19th flight as early as Sunday, according to NASA.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2021 - The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission. Since Feb. 28, 2019, the probe, called the
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 - A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars
Irvine CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 - Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to fly back to Earth? Houlin Xin, an assistant professor in physics an
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2021 - It's been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making new discoveries during its gradual climb up Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-ki
Paris (ESA) Jan 11, 2021 - The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured remnant frost deposits in a region near Sisyphi Tholus, in the high southern latitudes of Mars (74S/246E). This image was taken
