Tagged: Mars

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity to keep flying through September

The planned five-flight mission is now at 21 flights and countin Ingenuity’s flying days have been extended once again. The miniature Martian chopper now has clearance to continue flying until at least September, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced today (March 15). As part of...

SpaceX installs 29 engines on giant Super Heavy Mars rocket

SpaceX plans to launch the first orbital test flight of Starship, its reusable deep-space transportation system, in the next few months from the company’s South Texas site, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica. The company has made significant strides toward that milestone in...

China’s Zhurong Mars rover scopes out dunes on journey south

China’s Zhurong rover has quietly clocked up 1,900 feet (585 meters) of driving on Mars and has been using its science instruments to check out nearby geologic features in Utopia Planitia. Zhurong’s latest exploits have seen it analyze dunes amid the local rocky Martian terrain...

Olympus Mons Volcano On Mars, From UAE’s Hope

UAE’s Hope probe is one of three Mars missions that arrived in February this year, one after the other. Its instruments are now producing images and data as it orbits the red planet at various altitudes. The image above was released last month and shows...

Mars’ Missing Water Might Still Be In Its Crust

Where did Mars’ water go? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades now. It appears there used to be abundant water on the red planet, and today we still see signs of ancient rivers, lakes and maybe even oceans. But today Mars’...