SPACE: Dark Streaks on Mars Explained
Evidence of landslides on Mars may also raise the prospects that the Red Planet was once hospitable to life. A new study, published Feb. 3 in the journal Science Advances, … Read more
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SPACE: Watch Perseverance Land On mars
For the first time ever, you can watch a rover landing on Mars. And it’s epic on many levels. Human beings have been dropping machines on Mars since the 1970s: … Read more
What Will Perseverance Do Inside Jezero Crater?
One of the most exciting aspects of successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars is the fact that the laboratory-on-wheels will start the first leg in a long-awaited sample-return … Read more
SPACE: Mars is a Busy Place This Month
It’s a busy February for Mars, with three probes from three separate countries arriving at the Red Planet over the course of just nine days. But this Martian party didn’t … Read more
space: A New NASA Mars Rover Will Arrive on the Red Planet in February
The long deep-space journey of NASA’s next Mars rover is nearly over. The car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the … Read more
Boston Dynamics “Robot Dog” Trains to Explore the Caverns of Mars
Mars exploration is going to the dogs. The robot dogs, that is. Scientists are equipping four-legged, animal-mimicking robots with artificial intelligence (AI) and an array of sensing equipment to help … Read more
SPACE: Mars is Wobbly. Astronomers Don’t Know Why
The Red Planet is wiggling and wobbling as it spins, research in the journal Geophysical Research Letters confirms, and astronomers have no idea why. Like a toy top that teeters … Read more
Is There Life on Mars in Subglacial Lakes?
Venus may harbour life some 50km above its surface, we learned a couple of weeks ago. Now a new paper, published in Nature Astronomy, reveals that the best place for … Read more
SPACE: Did Mars Steal Our Second Moon?
An asteroid trailing after Mars could actually be the stolen twin of our moon. The asteroid in question, called (101429) 1998 VF31, is part of a group of trojan asteroids … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Colonizing Mars
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Let’s go to Mars – writers, how do we get there? What do we do once we reach the red planet? … Read more