08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... in Martian meteorites found on Earth, and about 100 times greater in concentration than prior detections of organic carbon on Mars' surface. While the discovery is one of the most tantalising searches yet to indicate that biological processes were...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... to broadcast radio signals. The consortium’s CubeSats are likely to perform more complex tasks such as taking images of Mars and as such will need to be bigger. Nonetheless, preliminary work conducted by the consortium has shown that they...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
...ISS, Elon Musk is pushing forward with plans to reach Mars with ever increasing ambitious flight tests of its Starship rocket...-fuelled Raptor engine SpaceX intends to use to reach Mars. Although SN5 featured a single Raptor, the operational Starship...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
..., interim director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian rock and...excited and proud to see the system perform so well on Mars and take the first step for returning samples to Earth”,...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
...the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars. “This budget will build on our successes in low-Earth orbit... 11 this July, we are moving forward to the Moon and on to Mars, and we want the world to come with us. “NASA is everywhere,...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... cycle than visible light – is monitored by an EUV detector. The one imager on MAVEN captures the appearance of the Mars upper atmosphere in scattered, reflected or emitted ultraviolet light, watching for changes in its behaviour that reveal, or even...
