30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater... is also designed to better understand the geology and climate of Mars, and to pave the way for human exploration beyond the Moon...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
...highlands”, Galofre and colleagues analysed the morphology of valleys on Mars to determine the different ways in which they could have ... support for the presence of ice sheets on early Mars,” say the team in their research paper published by...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
... making the early habitability of the planet possible, add the team in their paper. If water was available on Mars earlier than thought, it suggests it could be a natural byproduct of some process early on in planet formation, rather than delivered...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
... became lunar-like in composition through millions or billions of years of space weathering. Alternatively, the object came from Mars itself. “The shape of the 101429 spectrum tells us that it is rich in pyroxene, a mineral found in the outer layer...
15 December 2021
ExoMars discovers large amounts of hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
... for it to remain to be stable – instead it usually evaporates. However other observations suggest that minerals seen in this part of Mars typically contain only a few percent water, much less than is evidenced by these new observations, says Alexey...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... Hope mission makes up the trio of missions heading to Mars this month, Perseverance is the successor to NASA’s Curiosity rover... to see if one day it is possible to colonise Mars. "China's steadfast commitments to space probes and the development...
