23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
....” A key objective of Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... all expectations in its endurance, scientific value and longevity. In addition to exceeding its life expectancy by 60 times, the rover traveled more than 28 miles (45 kilometers) by the time it reached its most appropriate final resting spot on Mars...
31 May 2021
JAXA to send a transforming robot to the Moon in 2022
...affect the driving performance of the future crewed pressurised rover. “JAXA has been promoting mission development and ...the team in 2019 are developing the control technologies for the rover. “We are honoured to be able to contribute to realising ...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... show a successful drill hole, but no sample in the tube–something we’ve never seen in testing on Earth,” the Mars rover Twitter account said. To extract samples, a process which is autonomous from beginning to end, Perseverance uses a hollow coring...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
...-February this year, the world witnessed NASA’s Perseverance rover land successfully on the surface of Mars and two ...sector. NASA s Ingenuity Mars helicopter seen from the Perseverance rover after it successfully completing a high-speed spin-up test. ...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
...DLR), are planning to collect surface material with a German-French rover from one of Mars’ moons – Phobos and Deimos – ... and composition of the surface, along with developing the rover’s casing and its robotic locomotion system. CNES on the...
