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Chinese scientists achieve major step toward Mars base construction
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists achieve major step toward Mars base construction

China Daily  

BEIJING -- A study by Chinese researchers has confirmed the feasibility of continuously producing fiber materials from Martian soil, indicating that "in-situ resource utilization" could be achieved in the construction of future Mars bases. A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with various institutions including the CAS …

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

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Why are some sunsets on Mars blue?
1 year, 2 months ago

Why are some sunsets on Mars blue?

The Hindu  

Since Viking 1 landed on Mars in 1976, rovers have captured and shared images from the red planet, including views of sunrises and sunsets. In the words of Mark Lemmon, writing as a member of the Mars Pathfinder imaging team: “The blue colour near the sun is not caused by clouds of water ice, but by the Martian dust itself. …

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Nasa to send two more Ingenuity-like helicopters to collect samples from Mars
2 years, 4 months ago

Nasa to send two more Ingenuity-like helicopters to collect samples from Mars

The Independent  

Nasa is planning to send two more helicopters to the Red Planet as part of its Mars Sample Return Program. Nasa’s Perseverance rover has so far gathered 11 rock core samples and one atmospheric sample, with its most recent sedimentary rock sample expected to hold evidence of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. In the current plan, Perseverance will …

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Mars Ingenuity helicopter is on borrowed time as it endures winter
2 years, 6 months ago

Mars Ingenuity helicopter is on borrowed time as it endures winter

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “Challenges like these are to be expected: After hundreds of sols and dozens of flights beyond the five flights originally planned, the solar-powered helicopter is in uncharted terrain,” Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity team lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, wrote in an update. Using its onboard Helicopter Base Station, Perseverance …

Winter Team Flight Perseverance Martian Helicopter Rover
Why are winds blowing on Mars so dangerous? Mystery solved
2 years, 6 months ago

Why are winds blowing on Mars so dangerous? Mystery solved

India Today  

When astronaut Mark Watney tries to evacuate from his base in the film The Martian, inspired by the book of the same name, he is taken out by a ghastly storm, forcing his crew to abandon him on the alien world alone. While the storm was blown way out of proportion for the film, the wind gusts and dust storms …

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Nasa to lose InSight lander forever: Martian dust to kill quake whisperer in July
2 years, 7 months ago

Nasa to lose InSight lander forever: Martian dust to kill quake whisperer in July

India Today  

After successfully completing eight years on a desolate, barren world, Mars is finally catching up to Nasa’s InSight lander. Plans call for a gradual shutdown of instruments, including resting my arm in a “retirement pose.” A SURVIVOR The spacecraft had in the past come across a similar fate when it showed a decline in energy as dust particles had settled …

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

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Mayday…mayday: Ingenuity loses signals as Mars get cold, helicopter calls home for help
2 years, 7 months ago

Mayday…mayday: Ingenuity loses signals as Mars get cold, helicopter calls home for help

India Today  

The Ingenuity Helicopter, which has emerged as the biggest asset on a foreign planet, gave engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory a brief heart attack when it missed a planned communications session with its accomplice, the Perseverance rover. Based on the latest data beamed back to Earth, the team found that the communications dropout on May 3, Sol 427 of …

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Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes record breaking flight
2 years, 8 months ago

Nasa’s Mars helicopter completes record breaking flight

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. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter just completed its 25th flight on the Red Planet, flying …

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A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target
2 years, 10 months ago

A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Since then, this innovative rover has inspired humanity and accomplished a series of firsts, from transmitting the first audio recording of sounds from Mars, to capturing the Ingenuity helicopter’s history making first powered, controlled flight on another planet, to producing oxygen on Mars for the first time ever with the MOXIE experiment,” …

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No Life On Martian Meteorite Found In Antarctica In 1996
2 years, 11 months ago

No Life On Martian Meteorite Found In Antarctica In 1996

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday. Tiny samples from the meteorite show the carbon-rich compounds are actually the result of water — most likely salty, or briny, water — flowing over …

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Clay minerals 18 MILES below Mars' surface could be hiding water
3 years ago

Clay minerals 18 MILES below Mars' surface could be hiding water

Daily Mail  

Evidence suggests Mars was once flowing with rivers, lakes and streams some four billion years ago and a new study believes much of it is hiding just miles below the Martian surface. Researchers at Binghamton University suggest water is trapped inside clay minerals located 18 miles below the Martian surface. David Jenkins, professor of geology and environmental studies at Binghamton …

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ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month
3 years, 2 months ago

ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month

Firstpost  

The lessons learnt have raised the confidence of ISRO scientists for taking up future interplanetary missions. India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. The main lessons learnt were in the field of design and realisation of systems and subsystems, launch for interplanetary mission, insertion into other planet’s …

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NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures 3D view of rock-covered mound on Martian surface
3 years, 3 months ago

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures 3D view of rock-covered mound on Martian surface

India Today  

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a rare 3D view of a rock-covered mound on the Martian surface. The image of the geologic target, which the Mars rover team calls “Faillefeu”, was captured during Ingenuity's 13th flight on September 4. Images like these can help @NASAPersevere's team plan the rover's science campaign: https://t.co/ZiLaIyQiom pic.twitter.com/YgCS5NWQc7 — NASA September 17, 2021 The space …

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NASA's Perseverance rover might've succeeded in collecting a piece of Martian rock
3 years, 3 months ago

NASA's Perseverance rover might've succeeded in collecting a piece of Martian rock

Firstpost  

NASA plans a mission to bring around 30 samples back to Earth in the 2030s, where scientists will be able to conduct more detailed analysis that might confirm there was microbial life. NASA’s Perseverance rover succeeded in its second attempt to scoop up a piece of Martian rock for future analysis by scientists on Earth – probably. The US space …

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The Perseverance rover's Martian rock samples just... disappeared. What happened?
3 years, 4 months ago

The Perseverance rover's Martian rock samples just... disappeared. What happened?

Salon  

The Perseverance rover is a rarity among space rovers for the sole reason that it is a sample-return mission — meaning that Perseverance will drill Martian rock and collect samples which will eventually be returned to Earth. This Martian mystery story begins last week, when scientists took a big step in Perseverance's historic mission by attempting to collect samples from …

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Organic Salts Detected on Mars May Provide Evidence That Life Once Existed on Red Planet
3 years, 6 months ago

Organic Salts Detected on Mars May Provide Evidence That Life Once Existed on Red Planet

News 18  

Organic salts are likely present on Mars, a NASA team has found, and their detection may provide evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. “If we determine that there are organic salts concentrated anywhere on Mars, we’ll want to investigate those regions further, and ideally drill deeper below the surface where organic matter could be better preserved,” said …

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NASA's Curiosity rover is on the cusp of discovering salts on Mars
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA's Curiosity rover is on the cusp of discovering salts on Mars

Daily Mail  

NASA's Curiosity rover may be close to finding evidence of salt in the Martian soil, which the space agency says could be a sign life once existed on the Red Planet. Scroll down for video NASA's Curiosity rover may be close to finding evidence of salt in the Martian soil, which the space agency says could be a sign life …

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NASA shares video, audio of Perseverance Mars landing; Ingenuity helicopter reports in
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA shares video, audio of Perseverance Mars landing; Ingenuity helicopter reports in

Firstpost  

The American space agency has released the first high-quality visuals of its Perseverance lander touching down on the surface of Mars on 18 February. Mission controllers also received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which is due to attempt the first ever flight on another world in the coming weeks. The Perseverance rover touched down close to …

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'Something we've never seen' - Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
3 years, 10 months ago

'Something we've never seen' - Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

The Hindu  

NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface of the Red Planet moments before touchdown. Watch how we did it.#CountdownToMarspic.twitter.com/Avv13dSVmQ — NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover February 22, 2021 "This is something we've never seen before," Aaron Stehura, a deputy …

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Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars
3 years, 10 months ago

Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars

CNN  

CNN — The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion of NASA’s Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is “operating as expected,” according to the agency. If successful, Ingenuity will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet, leading to an “extraterrestrial Wright Brothers moment,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. https://t.co/8pksN06ZwP …

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Incredible new images shared by Perseverance rover after Mars landing
3 years, 10 months ago

Incredible new images shared by Perseverance rover after Mars landing

CNN  

CNN — After safely landing on the surface of Mars Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it looks like to land on Mars. “The team is overwhelmed with excitement and joy to have successfully landed another rover on the surface of Mars,” said Adam Steltzner, the rover’s chief engineer. “We can only hope, in our …

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美国“毅力”号火星车成功着陆火星 传回照片
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 …

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