Clay subsoil at Earth's driest place may signal life on Mars
Earth's most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars.
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NASA's Perseverance rover is midway to Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30—146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exactly the same distance ...
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2020
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This transforming rover can explore the toughest terrain
A rover trundles over rocky terrain, its four metal wheels clattering along until they encounter a seemingly insurmountable hazard: a steep slope. Down below is a potential trove of science targets. With a typical rover, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2020
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ESA's force-feedback rover controlled from a nation away
A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At the same time a smaller ...
Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2020
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Perseverance Rover will peer beneath Mars' surface
After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheeled ...
Astronomy
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The way forward to Mars
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the martian surface on 10 June 2023, at around 17:30 ...
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2020
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First tests for landing the Martian Moons eXploration rover
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Phobos and explore its surface ...
Space Exploration
Oct 1, 2020
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United Arab Emirates to launch spacecraft to moon in 2024
The United Arab Emirates plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024, a top Emirati official said Tuesday, the latest gamble in the stars by the oil-rich nation that could see it become only the fourth nation ...
Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2020
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New Mars rover is ready for space lasers
When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. The plan was for scientists on Earth to aim lasers at them and calculate ...
Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2020
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MoonRanger will search for water at moon's south pole
MoonRanger, a small robotic rover being developed by Carnegie Mellon University and its spinoff Astrobotic, has completed its preliminary design review in preparation for a 2022 mission to search for signs of water at the ...
Space Exploration
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