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Tag: mars

  • Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

    NASA keeping track of two British explorers in Antarctica collecting info on survival on Mars

    Explorers Justin Packshaw,57 and Jamie Facer Childs, 37 are on an 80-day trek across the southernmost continent as part of the Chasing the Light mission

    The US space agency NASA is tracking two British explorers on a 3,650 kilometers journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars. Explorers Justin Packshaw,57, and Jamie Facer Childs, 37 are on an 80-day trek across the southernmost continent as part of the Chasing the Light mission — a grueling expedition that could give a better understanding of the psychological and physical impact of other worlds on the human body and mind.

  • Friday, February 26th 2021 - 21:20 UTC

    Spectacular pictures from Mars sent by NASA's Perseverance rover

    Pictures were taken by rotating the rover's mast 360 degrees. The mast is equipped with dual, zoomable cameras which can take high-definition video and images.

    The US space agency NASA has released a spectacular panoramic view of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance.

  • Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

    Impressive pictures from the Perseverance rover successful landing in Mars

    The Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected. JPL-Caltech/NASA<br />

    Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.

  • Wednesday, February 10th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

    “Hope” in Martian orbit becomes the first Arab interplanetary mission

    The Hope craft launched by the United Arab Emirates has successfully entered the orbit of Mars

    After seven months, the Hope craft launched by the United Arab Emirates has successfully entered the orbit of Mars. Next up are China's Tianwen-1 and the US's Mars 2020. February is full of nail-biting moments of truth for three countries — indeed, the world — as three separate Mars missions approach the red planet.

  • Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

    A milestone for Beijing's space program: China launches Tianwen-1 with a rover to research Mars

    China's Mars probe lifted off on Jul 23 from the southern island of Hainan. The mission was dubbed Tianwen-1 (“Questions to Heaven”)

    China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space program after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the moon. It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favorably aligned.

  • Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

    Arab Emirates launches its first mission to Mars from Japan

    The first Arab mission to Mars was initially due to launch on Jul 14, but has been delayed twice due to bad weather.

    The United Arab Emirates launched its first mission to Mars early on Monday as it strives to develop its scientific and technology capabilities and move away from its reliance on oil.

  • Wednesday, July 15th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

    United Arab Emirates postpones to Friday launching of its mission to Mars

    “The UAE’s space mission, the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, will launch on Friday 17 July 12:43am UAE time Tanegashima Space Center”

    The United Arab Emirates has postponed to Jul 17 the launch of its mission to Mars due to weather conditions at the launch site in Japan, the UAE government communications office said on Tuesday.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 06:51 UTC

    Mars rover work-out controlled in Chile from more 11.000km away in UK

    When on the surface of Mars, the rover will need to be controlled when it is up to 250 million miles from Earth.

    A space control center in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency’s centre in Oxfordshire completed a series of tests across nearly 11,000 km in order to see how the Mars rover reacts to commands across large distances.

  • Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

    Mars exploration NASA pioneer robot officially “dead” after 14 years

    Unable to recharge its batteries, Opportunity left hundreds of messages from Earth unanswered over the months, and NASA said it made its last attempt on Tuesday

    During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars, it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet - but NASA's Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample. The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June last year and was declared officially dead on Wednesday, ending one of the most fruitful missions in the history of space exploration.