China showed off its Mars spacecraft during a landing test last week in the northern province of Hebei.
China is planning to send a lander and rover to Mars next year to explore parts of the red planet.
The United States and European space agency are also sending rovers to the planet in 2020, and the United Arab Emirates plans to launch an orbiter .
Zhang Kejian is head of the China National Space Administration. Before the landing test, he told foreign diplomats and the media that China's Mars Mission is on schedule .
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Building a Mars base with bacteria
Benjamin Lehner, a Ph.D. student at Delft University of Technology with a background in both nanotechnology and biology, has now come up with a plan that does not involve any human beings in the first couple of years. His plan also eliminates the need to send heavy materials to Mars. In his dissertation, Lehner proposes the use of unmanned capsules containing three components: a rover, a bioreactor and a 3-D printer.
The rover is not much more than a shovel on wheels. During the day, it scoops up the iron-rich Martian soil (called regolith) and brings it to the bioreactor. This reactor is filled with bacteria of the Shewanella oneidensis species. "In its natural form, we can't use much of the iron in the Martian soil," explains Lehner. "But S. oneidensis has the ability to turn part of the soil into magnetite, a magnetic oxide of iron."
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On October 8, 2015, NASA published its strategy for human exploration and colonisation of Mars, with the concept operating through three distinct phases leading up to fully sustained civilisation on the Red Planet sometime in the mid-2030s.
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He said last year: “The distance from the Earth to the Moon versus the distance from the Earth to Mars on average is a difference of 1,500 to 3,000 times further.
“Today, to imagine doing it, is perhaps thousands of times more difficult than sending tremendously capable machines that are currently present.
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Tesla's newly unveiled electric pickup truck has some off-Earth flavor, according to Elon Musk .
"Tesla Cybertruck (pressurized edition) will be official truck of Mars," the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said via Twitter yesterday afternoon (Nov. 21), about six hours before showing the vehicle to the world during a webcast event.
And the Red Planet connection doesn't exist merely in Musk's head. The body of the Cybertruck will be cold-rolled stainless steel, just like that of Starship , the 165-foot-tall (50 meters) spacecraft that SpaceX is developing to help humanity colonize Mars .
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Fossilizing mineral found at 2020 Mars rover landing site
University researchers analyzed images from CRISM to identify hydrated silica at the Jezero crater on the red planet. The Mars 2020 rover will retrieve samples from the site for further analysis.
The team, most of whom work in the lab of John Mustard, professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences and professor of Environmental Sciences, used data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which creates high resolution images to determine the geological makeup of the sites, Bramble said. The camera employs red, green and infrared light to capture photographs of the different regions of Mars.
SpaceX rocket that Elon Musk wants to take people to Mars in explodes during tests | The
A video of the incident recorded by a local space enthusiast captured the moment the top of the Starship MK-1 rocket exploded.
SpaceX said there were no injuries and that the incident in such an early-stage test of the rocket was not a serious setback.
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"The purpose of today's test was to pressurise systems to the max, so the outcome was not completely unexpected," a spokesperson for the space firm said.
SpaceX CEO revealed on Twitter that tests would now proceed with the Starship MK-3 prototype design, which is more refined and features a much-improved flight design.
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#China tests Mars lander in international cooperation push https://t.co/LLZgPoplqv physorg_com Thu Nov 14 08:56:39 +0000 2019
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