To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE by Max G. Levy/Smithsonianmag.com Putting boots on Mars isn’t easy, but it’s a lot easier than bringing them back. This week, NASA launches its Perseverance rover on a one-way trip to the surface of Mars. Among many other tools, the craft carries […]
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Guardian: In the New York Times in January 2016, David Axelrod, former campaign strategist for Barack Obama, published The Obama Theory of Trump. “Voters rarely seek the replica of what they have,” he wrote. “They almost always seek the remedy, the candidate who has the personal qualities the public finds […]
An attempt by Twitter to promote Thursday’s mission to Mars liftoff from Florida didn’t exactly go as planned, as people either showed they had no idea about the upcoming event or were only interested in trolling. “Who wants to be transported off this planet?” the official Twitter account published on […]
With all major pre-launch preparations complete, United Launch Alliance stands ready to launch NASA’s latest mission to Mars: the Perseverance rover and accompanying Ingenuity helicopter. Liftoff of the third of our world’s three missions to Mars during the current interplanetary transfer window is targeted for Thursday, 30 July 2020 in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007251079983549-space-power-us-seeks-to-build-nuclear-reactors-for-moon–mars/ The prospective reactor must be able to generate an uninterrupted electricity output of at least 10 kilowatts. The US Department of Energy has recently put out a request to the private sector to construct nuclear power plants capable of operating beyond the boundaries […]
It was the crew’s first night, we had just arrived, we were settling in. Kim Binsted, principle investigator on the HI-SEAS project, was preparing to leave for four months, nervous, I think, about launching this Mars mission, a project whose actualization was so uncertain throughout the buildup—NASA nearly pulled funding, […]
The Tianwen-1 Mars probe launches successfully from the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island, China, on Thursday. Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images The Tianwen-1 Mars probe launches successfully from the Wenchang Spaceport on Hainan Island, China, on Thursday. Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty […]
China has successfully launched its first Mars exploration mission. The probe carries a rover which will monitor the weather conditions on the planet and look for ice under its surface. The launch took place on Hainan Island in southern China. The probe, which was carried into space by the Long […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007231079960307-china-launches-first-probe-mission-to-mars/ The Chinese heavy launch vehicle CZ-5 (Changzheng-5) with China’s first probe to explore Mars Tianwen-1 was launched on Thursday from from a launch site on Hainan Island. Source link
The Tianwen-1 Orbiter, Lander, and Rover are scheduled to depart for Mars within a three hour launch window extending from 00:00-03:00 EDT (04:00-07:00 UTC) on Thursday, 23 July 2020 from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan, People’s Republic of China. The flight will be the first China-led mission […]
Emirati men clap as they watch the launch of the “Amal” or “Hope” space probe at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday. The probe, the country’s first interplanetary spacecraft, was launched from Japan. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Emirati men […]
The UAE has successfully launched a rocket carrying a Mars orbiter from a site in Japan. The probe, which will monitor the atmosphere on the Red Planet, is the Arab world’s first interplanetary exploration mission. The Emirati Hope (Amal) orbiter separated from the Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket and is heading for […]
The call comes 11 days ahead of the space agency launching the Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover. With this mission, NASA wants to unravel some of the mysteries that have been surrounding the red planet for decades. US scientist Charity Phillips-Lander from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas […]
Northrop Grumman stands ready to launch the classified NROL-129 mission, consisting of four payloads designed and built by the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff is targeted for Wednesday, 15 July in a launch window that opens at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC). This will be the first launch of the Minotaur IV […]
Launch of the Perseverance rover to Mars is nearly at hand, with United Launch Alliance entering into the final phase of pre-launch preparations for the payload and rocket. But by far the most fascinating pre-launch element of this mission isn’t its processing flow but rather the ability for United Launch […]
The timing for the launch of unmanned spacecraft to the Red planet is linked to the opening of a one-month window, when Mars and Earth are in alignment on the same side of the sun so as to minimise both travel time and fuel required. In an ambitious effort to […]
After six years of preparation, the United Arab Emirates is set to launch its first spacecraft to Mars, and what it describes as the red planet’s first weather satellite. The spacecraft, named Hope, is now officially complete and ready to blast off to Mars on July 14, the Emirati engineers […]
Mars Had Landslide-Powered Tsunamis That Put Earth’s Mega-Waves to Shame by Nola Taylor Redd/Smithsonianmag.com Billions of years ago, a giant landslide cascaded down the slopes of the largest mountain in the solar system—Mars’ Olympus Mons. When all this material fell into the water of Mars’ (probable) ancient ocean, it created […]
This Month, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars by Tony Reichardt/Smithsonianmag.com. June 2020 Every 26 months or so, when the planets are favorably aligned, spacecraft can be sent to Mars at a discount—in terms of the rocket fuel required. NASA, which has a lot of experience in this area, […]
For the first time in its 10-year flight history, the Minotaur IV rocket is preparing to make its inaugural launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, MARS, on Wallops Island, Virginia. The classified mission from the National Reconnaissance Office, known as NROL-129, will launch sometime within a launch window that opens […]
Noam Izenberg, a planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University, and other researchers have drafted a white paper on the topic titled “Human Assisted Science at Venus: Venus Exploration in the New Human Spaceflight Age,” which has been submitted for peer review. According to the paper, there are two ways to […]
Germany’s Army, known as the Bundeswehr, plans to procure a batch of new unitary guided missiles with a unitary warhead for the MARS II rocket launcher. According to a press release issued on 2 July by Bundeswehr, the national parliament of the Federal Republic has approved the acquisition of new […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107089/39/1070893956_0:0:1280:720_1200x675_80_0_0_9377b3ebc1db6da5e09dc739f69a7cb6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007031079787797-european-space-agency-invites-everyone-to-take-a-flight-over-korolev-crater-on-mars/ The crater was named after Soviet scientist and spacecraft engineer Sergei Korolev, who designed the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, and the first artificial satellite. Dubbed by many as the father of aeronautics, Korolev was also involved in launching the first […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107963/48/1079634813_0:0:2049:1152_1200x675_80_0_0_27cc73e74f23ac71cb7fe6bbd510b81e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202006161079634803-astronomers-detect-glowing-green-oxygen-aura-in-mars-atmosphere/ It has long been believed that our world is the only planet in the Solar System with an oxygen-based atmosphere, as there is a glowing green aura around the Earth formed by the combination of sunlight with oxygen atoms and atmospheric molecules. Similar […]