Digging a little deeper -The mole has moved further down. With help from @NASAJPL and @DLR_en, my latest efforts to help the heat probe seem to be working. More digging to come. pic.twitter.com/JumZaqAecY December 16, 2019
The troubled "mole" on NASA's InSight Mars lander is moving again, even as scientists working on the robot's seismometer ponder new marsquake mysteries.
InSight touched down in November 2018 on a quest to understand the interior of the Red Planet. Two of its crucial tools for that task were a burrowing heat probe nicknamed the mole and a super-sensitive seismometer to study motion within the planet.
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This is your chance to spend a night on Mars - Lonely Planet
The London Design Museum is currently hosting its Moving to Mars exhibition, which features all the technological innovations that will be needed for humans reach our closest space neighbour and the information we know so far about it. And within this exhibition, there's also the possibility of winning "one Martian night at the museum."
One lucky winner and their guest will spend the night inside the exhibition, sleeping in a 3D printed Martian habitat and using specially-designed Martian gear like clothes and tools. It's a chance to experience Mars without the eight-month-long journey, the cosmic radiations and the minor detail of the unbreathable air.
NASA reveals Mars water ice 'treasure map' | Fox News
NASA lost contact with the Mars Opportunity rover in 2018 following an epic dust storm; insight from former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino.
NASA has revealed a fascinating “treasure map” of where water ice may be found just below the surface of Mars .
In a recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters , scientists provided a map of where water may be located as little as an inch below the surface of the Red Planet.
CRISPR, gravity waves, water on Mars: A decade of discoveries
Shortly after landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover discovered rounded pebbles—new evidence that rivers flowed there billions of years ago.
The proof has since multiplied, showing there was in fact a lot of water on Mars—the surface was covered in hot springs, lakes, and maybe even oceans.
Two new rovers will be launched next year—America's Mars 2020 and Europe's Rosalind Franklin rovers, looking for ancient microbes.
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Oxygen on Mars Adds to Atmospheric Mysteries - The New York Times
There is not much air on Mars — the atmospheric pressure there is less than one one-hundredth of what we breathe on Earth — but what little is there has baffled planetary scientists.
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In a paper published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets , scientists working with data gathered by NASA's Curiosity rover reported that levels of oxygen unexpectedly varied with the seasons on Mars, at least in the neighborhood that Curiosity has been driving around since 2012.
NAU Scientists Map Hidden Water Ice On Mars | KNAU Arizona Public Radio
Scientists at Northern Arizona University mapped frozen water hidden just below the surface of Mars, with the goal of finding the best spots for future astronauts to visit. KNAU's Melissa Sevigny reports.
Buried water ice influences the temperature of a planet's surface. The team used heat-sensing instruments on two orbiting spacecraft to map fluctuations in temperature during different seasons on Mars. They crunched the data in Northern Arizona University's supercomputer to make the map.
Mars mission news: NASA asked to help desperate European Space Agency bot in danger | Science |
The mission due to launch next year has seen the projected costs balloon to more than a billion euros. In particular, problems with the parachute have frustrated engineers as they have been unable t develop a method of safely landing the rover on the red planet’s surface. Now the ESA is appealing to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for assistance, with trials of a new design for the parachute set to start trials in Pasadena in the new year.
“It is going to be very, very tight getting the probe ready for next summer’s launch,” ExoMars project manager Pietro Baglioni told the Guardian. “I think we have only got a 50-50 chance we will be able to go ahead as scheduled.”
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NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected more than 300 quakes on the Red Planet and traced some back to their source… https://t.co/1FjM1qn89w sciam (from New York City) Wed Dec 18 15:00:54 +0000 2019
NASA's Mars Lander 'Mole' Is Digging Again as Marsquake Mystery Baffles Scientists https://t.co/oam3qmY4XR https://t.co/Itw76fv3ML SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Wed Dec 18 18:07:32 +0000 2019
Other early findings from NASA's Mars InSight mission include mysterious magnetic pulses that appear around midnigh… https://t.co/nMHHaNrucj NatureNews (from Worldwide) Sat Dec 14 18:00:12 +0000 2019
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