Tag: Mars
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US to test nuclear engine for future Mars missions
NASA and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, the key steps for sending the first crewed missions to Mars.
January 25, 2023 -
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts safely splash down in Atlantic after spending 170 days in orbit
The Crew-4 mission launched at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than 16 hours later, Dragon docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port.
October 15, 2022 -
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures first images of Mars
The NASA Mars Twitter handle shared that tweet and wrote, "Rovers, orbiters, telescopes - and now a new, powerful eye watching the Red Planet.
September 20, 2022 -
NASA lander ‘hears’ first impact sounds of space rocks on Mars
The sound of a meteoroid striking Mars - created from data recorded by NASA's InSight lander - is like a "bloop" due to a peculiar atmospheric effect.
September 20, 2022 -
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn to align in straight line this week after 1000 years
When planets line up on one side of the Sun as seen up above the plane of our solar system is termed the first kind of planet parade.
April 27, 2022 -
Study shows Mars had less water than previously thought
They also used the models to explore self-consistent combinations of recharge (rainfall or precipitation) and hydraulic conductivities.
April 26, 2022 -
Curiosity rover images tiny ‘mineral flower’ on Mars
Continuing to document new diagenetic features like the Blackthorn Salt is important because it could help researchers figure out when liquid water disappeared from Mars.
March 7, 2022 -
The imperator of Mars
In the meantime, Elon Musk’s blue bird would keep tweeting about a crypto colony on the Red Planet.
July 26, 2021 -
NASA’s Insight lander has revealed deep interiors of the Red Planet
InSight scientists spend much of their time searching for bursts of vibration in seismograms, where the tiniest wiggle on a line can represent a quake or, for that matter, noise created by wind.
July 25, 2021 -
Signal, Spectacular
Landing on Mars has always been a daunting challenge but China would have had confidence going into the procedure not the least in view of the competence it has shown in its space endeavours.
May 22, 2021 -
China names first Mars rover ‘Zhurong’
China launched its Mars probe -- Tianwen-1 -- on July 23, last year. The spacecraft, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, entered the parking orbit of Mars on February 24 this year..
April 26, 2021 -
Mars did not dry up all at once, says study
"A primary goal of the Curiosity mission was to study the transition between the habitable environment of the past, to the dry and cold climate that Mars has now,"
April 12, 2021 -
Mars water still trapped underground: Study
The research team from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) found that around four billion years ago, Mars was home to enough water to have covered the whole planet in an ocean about 100 to 1,500 metres deep; a volume roughly equivalent to half of Earth's Atlantic Ocean.
March 17, 2021 -
NASA names Mars rover touchdown site after Octavia Butler
A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
March 8, 2021 -
NASA rover sends 1st colour images of Mars, a selfie too
In the following weeks, Perseverance will test its robotic arm and take its first, short drive.
February 20, 2021 -
Hunger Myths
There is a knotty problem of defining hunger, subjectively and objectively, and differentiating it from starvation on the one hand and malnutrition on the other. Hunger literally means the physiological desire to consume food. But this subjective definition does not lead automatically to an understanding of the extent of food deprivation.
August 23, 2020 -
First person on Mars likely to be woman: NASA
NASA will also have its first all-female spacewalk at the end of the month, when astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will get to float around in space.
March 13, 2019