Last week NASAs Curiosity rover took a photo which appeared to show a doorway on Mars Sydney: For the past ten years, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been trundling around the surface of Mars, taking photos in its quest to understand the history and geology of the red planet and perhaps even find signs of life. … Read more
One of NASA’s Mars robots has taken one last selfie as it powers down for good. The agency released a photo of the InSight lander covered in red Martian dust on Monday, along with an announcement that the robot’s arms will soon be placed in a “retirement pose” as it begins to shut down operations … Read more
China’s Zhurong rover is currently in safe mode as it waits out a Martian dust storm, according to Chinese state-run averageand it may remain in safe mode until the end of 2022. Zhuong landed on Mars a year ago this month; since then, the rover has recorded video and audio from a sweeping lava plain … Read more
NASA has shared the final self-portrait that will be taken by the InSight Mars lander, showing dust-caked solar panels that blend into the surrounding regolith. The InSight mission is expected to end this year, and the lander will need all of its remaining power to gather as much scientific data as possible. In a press … Read more
Earth’s auroras are a glorious wonder, but our planet is not the only place in the Solar System where these phenomena can be found. An atmospheric glow, albeit sometimes in invisible wavelengths, has been spotted at every planet except Mercury, and even some moons of Jupiter… and even a comet. But Mars is where it … Read more
(Newser) – NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The InSight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA says it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July, the AP reports. Then flight controllers will … Read more
The InSight Mars lander will cease science operations sometime in the next few months due to a decreasing power supply, mission managers said at a news conference on May 17. Martian dust covering the solar has reduced the amount of power panels to roughly 500 watt-hours per Mars day or sol. When InSight landed in … Read more
NASA officials announced in a press conference today that the InSight lander on Mars will likely stop operating at the end of 2022, following three years of scientific work on the surface of the Red Planet. InSight arrived on Mars in November 2018, and during its time on the Martian surface it has collected remarkable … Read more
It’s not a stairway to heaven – it’s a doorway on Mars. The image of what looks to be a symmetrical, hand-hewn Martian portal, captured May 7 by NASA’s Curiosity rover, has ignited a cosmic array of speculation, conspiracy theories and dreams of intelligent life on the red planet. “If you zoom in all the … Read more
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