Ultraviolet ‘Nightglow’ from Mars’ atmosphere.Image: NASA / MAVEN / Goddard Space Flight Center / CU / LASP New ultra-violet observations of the Red Planet mark complex circulation patterns in the Martian atmosphere, including extremely regular night-glass pulses that are invisible to the unsupported eye. The Martian atmosphere is, when viewed …
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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 …
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