Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. ...
Tag: Mars
Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale
We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of ...
Mars – or Arrakis
Who hates deep sand traps more than golfers? Mars rover drivers (and probably Fremen too). When your vehicle is well ...
Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science
When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in ...
Astronaut training in the land of volcanoes
A team of astronauts, engineers and geologists is travelling to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's volcanic hot spots, to ...
Docking the Perseverance robotic arm
Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its ...
Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!" Tosol, Curiosity is ...
China's Mars orbiter enters remote-sensing orbit
China's Mars orbiter entered its remote-sensing orbit around Mars on Monday, starting the global remote-sensing exploration of the planet, the ...
Off-world colony simulation reveals changes in human communication over time with Earth
Elton John famously sang that Mars "ain't the kind of place to raise your kids", but one day space agencies ...
NASA sending Mars helicopter back to where it all started
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown for the 15th time on Mars, starting a journey back to its starting point ...