BEIJING (AP) – China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1, which exploded in space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) on its way from Earth to the Red Planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday. The administration said the TNV-1 is in a stable position, having completed …
Read More »Mars 2020 mission lAunch, with the Perseverance rover on board.Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky True to this dying year of 2020, yesterday’s launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars. The rover was not without problems. As scheduled, a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter gotten up of …
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NASA’s most sophisticated rover has yet to launch into Mars on a mission to answer one of the deeper questions: did life arise on another planet? Mission controllers have set their sights on the 28-mile-wide (45 km) Jezero crater north of the planet’s equator. The landing site is one of …
Read More »The elongated cloud of Arsia Mons, or AMEC, on Mars. Image: ESA / GCP / UPV / EHU Bilbao Like a clock, a strange cloud has returned far above the Martian surface. This long, thin cloud was seen on July 17 and 19 by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) attached …
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For the first time, scientists have observed that the ‘megaripples’ on Mars, huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface, are mobile structures and not ancient relics trapped in place from the distant past of the Red Planet. Megaripples, which also occur in Earth’s deserts, are generally larger than the …
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