22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
...; mapping the morphology and geological structure of Mars, investigating the surface soil characteristics and water-ice distribution and analysing the surface material composition. Mars’ climate, ionosphere and electromagnetic and gravitational...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
.../2025, is being designed not just to inspect the terrain, but also to prospect it for resources such as lunar water ice in permanently shadowed regions of the Moon. This will be a big step up from Russia’s first series of robotic lunar...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... camera, and a meteorological measurer which will be used to produce surface maps, and to characterise soil composition and water ice distribution, during a mission expected to last about three months. Meanwhile, high up in the martian skies, the...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... mission will be used by scientists to hopefully learn more about the moon’s hidden oceans, strange geysers blasting water ice into space and whether any of these frozen worlds are hospitable for life. Mission scientists also...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... the soil. Doing so is important for a variety of reasons: Future astronauts may need to dig through soil to access water ice, while scientists want to study the subsurface’s potential to support microbial life. “We are so proud of our team who...
