News Muncher - searching for science

6 days, 19 hours ago

Dead on Mars: InSight lander reveals how dust devil moves on Red Planet

Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recently captured stunning new images of the retired InSight lander, revealing how dust accumulation on its solar panels has transformed its appearance over time. Taken on October 23, 2024, by MRO’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, the images show InSight’s solar panels now sharing the reddish-brown hue characteristic of the Martian surface. Throughout its mission, …

Mars Red Nasa Dust Martian Insight Lander Reveals

6 days, 19 hours ago

Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon

NPR

Mars has its own Grand Canyon Research is revealing similarities between Earth's Grand Canyon and ones on the red planet. RAE SOLOMON, BYLINE: Maybe it's the intriguing red color, but us earthlings have always been drawn to the planet Mars. That doesn't sound much like today's Mars, all cold and ice-capped with a surface mostly devoid of liquid water. SOLOMON: …

Climate Mars Earth River Npr Planet Martian

1 week, 2 days ago

Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon

NPR

Mars has its own Grand Canyon New research is revealing similarities between Earth's Grand Canyon and ones on the red planet. RAE SOLOMON, BYLINE: Maybe it's the intriguing red color, but us earthlings have always been drawn to the planet Mars. So I realized that there could have be a connection between the Earth's river system and of the Mars …

Climate Earth River Npr Planet Martian Grand Canyon

1 month ago

Evidence of hot water that’s essential to life points to Mars’ habitable past

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of …

University Water Mars Hot Health Check Martian Meteorite

2 months, 1 week ago

Column: Elon Musk’s dumbest idea is to send human colonists to Mars

LA Times

The image of Elon Musk that may be dominating people’s mindspace at the moment is of his prancing about joyously — and, yes, a tad weirdly — behind Donald Trump on the podium during the latter’s Oct. 5 rally in Butler, Pa. For visible under his jacket was a T-shirt bearing the legend, “Occupy Mars.” That’s a pointer to one …

Space Mars Spirit Earth Opportunity Musk Elon Musk

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists believe they finally know what happened to Mars’ missing atmosphere

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight, scientists believe They propose …

Water Mars Missing Earth Methane Mit Clay

3 months, 2 weeks ago

China plans to return Martian soil to Earth by 2028, invites global scientists to collaborate

China Daily

China is aiming to bring Martian soil back to Earth by 2028, with a historic mission encouraging foreign scientists to take part in the ambitious project. Liu Jizhong, chief planner of China’s Martian soil-return mission and a leading scientist in the country’s deep-space exploration programs, said on Thursday that the mission, Tianwen 3, will be the third in China’s interplanetary …

Space China Mars Earth Mission Liu Martian

8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Matrix 5’ in the works with ‘The Martian’ screenwriter attached to direct

The Hindu

A fifth movie in the Matrix franchise is in development, Warner Bros. has announced. Lana Wachowski, who helmed the most recent Matrix installment, 2021's Resurrectionsis attached as an executive producer. Plot details have not been disclosed yet but Warner Bros. Motion Pictures president of production Jesse Ehrman teased that the story will advance the fantasy world without straying too far …

Matrix Lana Screenwriter Attached

1 year, 7 months ago

China’s Mars rover finds signs of recent water in sand dunes

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Water may be more widespread and recent on Mars than previously thought, based on observations of Martian sand dunes by China’s rover. Before Zhurong fell silent, it observed salt-rich dunes with cracks and crusts, which researchers said likely were mixed with melting morning frost or snow as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago. Small …

Water Mars Martian Frost Rover Zhurong

1 year, 8 months ago

Pre-Historic Life On Mars? NASA's Curiosity rover spots a strange bone-like rock on the red planet

Firstpost

In its most recent set of images uploaded, NASA’s Curiosity rover has shared a number of images of a strange structure on Mars. ‘Really unusual, never seen anything like this and I have been looking at Mars photographs since the Sojourner mission back in 1997,’ another person said. Ms, Cabrol also stated that it was most likely the “remains of …

Mars Rock Curiosity Images Twitter Nasa Martian

1 year, 8 months ago

How to build a robot arm that can flex in the moon’s frigid south pole

LA Times

Lacie Fradet, a project engineer at Motiv Space Systems in Pasadena, with COLDArm, a robotic arm for a lunar rover that’s designed to function in the extremely low temperatures of the moon’s south pole. When NASA’s new lunar rover lands on the moon’s south pole next year, it will encounter a whole new kind of cold. “But getting even colder,” …

Temperature Mars Earth Moon Nasa Mccormick Cold

2 years, 7 months ago

Dust-covered solar panels mean NASA Mars lander’s mission is coming to an end

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. InSight’s solar panels have been increasingly covered in red Martian dust, despite creative efforts by the mission’s team on Earth. “We’ve been hoping for a dust cleaning like we saw happen several times to the Spirit and Opportunity rovers,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at JPL. NASA/JPL-Caltech “The InSight mission has …

Mars Power Earth Mission Solar End Nasa

2 years, 9 months ago

Ingenuity helicopter to keep flying on Mars till Sept, identify spots to land future missions

India Today

Just about a year ago, engineers, scientists, astronomers had no idea if a controlled flight was even possible on another planet. Nasa has extended the operation of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars till September, where it will support the Perseverance rover, trundling on the surface, in its science operations trying to look for evidence of ancient microbial life in the …

Mars Flight Perseverance Martian Helicopter Rover Ingenuity

3 years, 3 months ago

NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples

India TV News

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Perseverance rover on Monday completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. The sample-taking process began on September 1, when the rotary percussive drill at the end of Perseverance's robotic arm cored into a flat, briefcase-size Mars rock nicknamed "Rochette." Today, at 12:34 …

Science Mars Earth Moon Tube Martian Jpl

3 years, 5 months ago

Mars' auroras happen all over the planet and UAE's Hope orbiter captures new images

Firstpost

While Earth’s magnetic field is like one large bar magnet, Mars’ magnetic field is like if someone has taken “bag of magnets and dumped them into the crust of the planet. “It will allow new doors of study to be opened when it comes to the Martian atmosphere,” said Hessa al-Matroushi, the science lead for the first interplanetary mission by …

Hope Earth Auroras Lights Field Atmosphere Planet

3 years, 7 months ago

Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?

BBC

Could humans have contaminated Mars with life? NASA/JPL-Caltech Nasa's most recent rover to Mars, Perseverance – along with its pint-sized helicopter – could have carried some microbial hitchhikers along for the ride Humanity has sent around 30 spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Clean rooms might serve as an evolutionary selection process for the …

Space Life Credit Spacecraft Earth Dna Iss

3 years, 7 months ago

Andy Weir’s 'Project Hail Mary' Is 'The Martian,' Again

Wired

After the runaway success of his first book The Martian, a science-driven thriller about a stranded astronaut which spawned a blockbuster movie starring Matt Damon, Andy Weir tried to do what many science fiction authors before him have attempted. That idea became the seed of Project Hail Mary, Weir’s new book, which sees a return to what he calls the …

Weir Martian

3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight

Hindustan Times

NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The U.S. space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …

Mars Earth Flight Nasa Perseverance Martian Jpl

3 years, 8 months ago

Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April

Live Mint

NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The US space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …

Mars Earth Nasa Perseverance Martian Jpl Helicopter

3 years, 8 months ago

NASA Mars rover has part of Wright brothers’ first airplane

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A piece of the Wright brothers’ first airplane is on Mars …

Mars Wright Nasa Health Check Martian Ingenuity Wright Flyer

3 years, 10 months ago

Swati Mohan, Indian-origin Scientist Who Landed NASA Rover on Mars, Was Inspired by Star Trek

News 18

On Thursaday, the world witnessed the historic landing of NASA’s Perseverance Rover, the most advanced astrobiology rover ever sent to another world, as it streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday as it landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Among the …

India Mars Indian Spacecraft Red Planet Earth Mission

3 years, 10 months ago

Perseverance’s quest for signs of life on Mars begins now

Live Mint

At around 4 pm eastern time on 18 February, roughly 2:30 am IST on Friday, one of the biggest, complex and most daring Mars missions landed on the red planet. Nasa’s Perseverance rover successfully completed a seven-month long journey to the planet and will now begin searching for signs of past life on Mars. “Touchdown confirmed!” were the words that …

Mars Mission Nasa Perseverance Martian Rover

3 years, 10 months ago

美国“毅力”号火星车成功着陆火星传回照片

China Daily

美国东部时间2月18日，美国“毅力”号火星车在火星成功着陆，将寻找火星上可能存在过的生命迹象。此次登陆是为2030年后人类探索火星做准备。 Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US February 18, 2021. 美国宇航局代理局长史蒂夫·尤尔奇克在一份新闻发布稿中称：“此次着陆是美国宇航局、美利坚合众国和全球太空探索的关键时刻之一。我们正处于发现和磨练的时期，而这次着陆改写了教科书。火星2020“毅力”号任务代表了美国在最具挑战性的形势下坚忍不拔的精神，启发和推动了科学与探索。” on the cusp: 介于两个状态之间；将要进入特定状态 Perseverance, the most technologically advanced robot NASA has sent to date, traveled 293 million miles to reach Mars over the course of …

Surface Nasa Pasadena Martian Rover Cape Canaveral Jet Propulsion Laboratory

3 years, 10 months ago

Mars rover landing: Historic Nasa Perseverance landing, as it happened

The Independent

Only lucky probes have made it to the surface intact Mars is not easy. Viking 1 - 1976 The first successful landing on Mars came in July 1976, when Nasa‘s Viking 1 touched down on Chryse Planitia. Viking 1 held the record for the longest Mars surface mission, continuing its work for more than six years until it was broken …

Mars Spirit Spacecraft Opportunity Red Curiosity Nasa

Filters

Articles for Martian, search results for science

Dead on Mars: InSight lander reveals how dust devil moves on Red Planet

Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon

Mars (yes, the planet) has its own Grand Canyon

Evidence of hot water that’s essential to life points to Mars’ habitable past

Column: Elon Musk’s dumbest idea is to send human colonists to Mars

Scientists believe they finally know what happened to Mars’ missing atmosphere

China plans to return Martian soil to Earth by 2028, invites global scientists to collaborate

‘Matrix 5’ in the works with ‘The Martian’ screenwriter attached to direct

China’s Mars rover finds signs of recent water in sand dunes

Pre-Historic Life On Mars? NASA's Curiosity rover spots a strange bone-like rock on the red planet

How to build a robot arm that can flex in the moon’s frigid south pole

Dust-covered solar panels mean NASA Mars lander’s mission is coming to an end

Ingenuity helicopter to keep flying on Mars till Sept, identify spots to land future missions

NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples

Mars' auroras happen all over the planet and UAE's Hope orbiter captures new images

Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?

Andy Weir’s 'Project Hail Mary' Is 'The Martian,' Again

NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight

Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April

NASA Mars rover has part of Wright brothers’ first airplane

Swati Mohan, Indian-origin Scientist Who Landed NASA Rover on Mars, Was Inspired by Star Trek

Perseverance’s quest for signs of life on Mars begins now

美国“毅力”号火星车成功着陆火星传回照片

Mars rover landing: Historic Nasa Perseverance landing, as it happened