The planet-wide dust cloud on Mars continues and may last another month or two. Opportunity rover remains in a deep freeze mode while the sun is blocked from powering its solar panels but Curiosity‘s nuclear power planet keeps it running regardless of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Mars has lots of weird and wonderful features on its surface. For example, here is one highlighted by NASA last week: Once in a Blue Dune Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dust storm on Mars that had has cut off the Opportunity rover’s access to the power of the Sun has now engulfed the whole planet: Martian Dust Storm Grows Global Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze A storm of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv Space episode is now available on line: The different personalities of the JPL rovers – Orbit 11.24 – TMRO JPL Science System Engineer Kim Steadman joins us to talk about some past, present and future missions that JPL […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As happens occasionally, a giant dust storm has arisen on Mars and the resulting cloudy sky has cut power to the Opportunity rover. Unlike the nuclear powered Curiosity, “Oppy” uses solar panels to supply its energy needs. The rover has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a NASA video overview plus an article about Thursday’s announcement that the Curiosity rover detected organic molecules in Martian rock: Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention will be held this year in Pasadena, California, August 23-26, 2018. The four-day International Mars Society Convention brings together leading scientists, engineers, aerospace industry representatives, government policymakers and journalists to talk about the latest scientific discoveries, technological […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a report from NASA JPL on what’s been happening on Mars: Bob Zimmerman is keeping track of where the Mars rovers are roving: Mars rover update: May 23, 2018 | Behind The Black Mars rover update: May 15, 2017 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA will include a helicopter on the Mars 2020 rover mission: Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA’s Next Red Planet Rover Mission NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a heavy fog, as is common where Vandenberg AFB lies on the California coast, an Atlas V rocket blasted off this morning and successfully deployed the InSight spacecraft into a trajectory that will take it to Mars for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Atlas V carrying the InSight Mars lander is set to lift off on Saturday morning from Vandenberg AFB in California at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 am EDT) (See earlier posting here.) The vehicle is scheduled to land on Mars in the western Elysium Planitia […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A ULA Atlas V rocket is ready for launch this Saturday morning to send the Insight Lander to Mars, where it will use a seismograph and other instruments to study the interior of the Red Planet. Liftoff is set for 7:05 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out Bob Zimmerman’s latest update on what the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers on Mars have been up to: Mars rover update: April 27, 2018 | Behind The Black Curiosity’s exploration of Vera Rubin Ridge is extended, while an attempt by Opportunity […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a new video from NASA JPL about a plan to return a sample of Martian soil to the earth: And here is a video of a recent public lecture at the SETI Institute giving an overview of Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On May 5, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch NASA’s InSight mission to Mars from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Insight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will study the deep interior of Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific sponsors the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, include the recent talk by Dr. Ashwin Vasavada (Project Scientist for the Curiosity Mission to Mars at JPL) on the exploration of Mars. The title of the talk was “When Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A short report from NASA JPL with the latest news from Mars: And this longer video shows a talk by Troy Hudson of JPL about NASA’s Mars InSight Mission, which is scheduled to launch in May of this year and land […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mars rover Opportunity landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 25, 2004. Nearly 5000 Martian days later, the robust little robot continues to explore and make discoveries. Here are two items from NASA JPL about Opportunity: ** 5,000 Days on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An overview of technologies and designs for Building on Mars: The Construction Industry Space Race: ==== This March in Dublin, Niamh Shaw, “one of Ireland’s leading science communicators”, will present her theater work about a Mars base: Diary of a Martian Beekeeper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
German physicist and engineer Christiane Heinicke describes her one year stay with five other people in the HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) habitat by the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii (see previous posts here about HI-SEAS): My Year on “Mars” – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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