Japan is moving ahead with plans to land a spacecraft on Phobos, one of Mars' moons. If successful, the mission would mark the first time any country has touched down on the surface of the Martian moon and potentially the first round-trip mission to the Mars system.
Japan's space agency, JAXA, announced today that the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) project had officially moved into the development phase. This means that the team will start working on the hardware and software for the mission ahead of a planned launch in 2024.
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News | NASA's Mars InSight Lander to Push on Top of the 'Mole'
Michael Carmody's big game leads Mars past South Fayette - Trib HSSN
Mars’ Chris Dvorak (10) pulls down a rebound against South Fayette during a 5A WPIAL quarterfinal game Feb. 21, 2020 at North Hills
Mars’ Michael Carmody (3) goes up for a shot against South Fayette’s Kade St. Ledger (23) during a 5A WPIAL quarterfinal game Feb. 21, 2020 at North Hills
Mars head basketball coach Rob Carmody disagrees with a call during a 5A WPIAL quarterfinal game against South Fayette Feb. 21, 2020 at North Hills
Nasa's 2020 rover: Can we finally answer the big question about Mars? - BBC News
That's to say, these prior missions asked only if past conditions were conducive to biology. A less direct approach.
So how will people react if a rover finds something intriguing imprinted in billions-of-years-old rock on another planet?
2020 mission scientist Jim Bell from Arizona State University is candid in his response: "We can make a claim about a biosignature, but it's not clear to me anyone would believe us," he said.
Not to change the topic here:
Journey to the center of Mars -- ScienceDaily
While InSight's seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku University) and Bill McDonough (Tohoku University and University of Maryland, College Park) have built a new compositional model for Mars.
Yoshizaki explains, "Knowing the composition and interior structure of rocky planets tells us about formation conditions, how and when the core separated from the mantle, and the timing and amount of crust extracted from the mantle." Early astronomers used the separation distances and orbital periods of planets and their moons to determine the size, mass and density of these bodies.
Mars: Elon Musk's Plan to Settle the Red Planet | National Review
L ast week my wife Hope and I traveled to Boca Chica, Texas, to meet with Elon Musk. While we talked inside the SpaceX onsite headquarters, a mariachi band played outside, providing entertainment for long lines of people queued up to apply for multiple categories of jobs building craft to take humans to Mars. Hundreds were already hired and at work in the complex. Soon there will be thousands.
Musk calls his design the "Starship." It's a methane/oxygen-driven, stainless-steel, two-stage-to-orbit rocket with a payload capacity equal to the Saturn V booster that sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon. The Saturn V, however, was expendable, with each unit destroyed in the course of a single use. Starship will be fully reusable, like an airliner, and therefore promises a radical reduction in payload-delivery costs.
Mars and Neptune Commitment Challenge by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
ARIES (March 21-April 19). The bottom line is important, but it’s rarely what a situation is really about. To know what really matters to people, study interactions. Inside the smallest gestures will be the gift of everything.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ve decided to get good at something. It doesn’t matter how far off you are from the mark right now. Figure out what small part of it you can learn. You only need to get 1% better at a time.
From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan - The New York Times
BOULDER, Colo. — In December, a spacecraft named Hope was motionless in the middle of a large clean room on the campus of the University of Colorado, mounted securely on a stand.
But engineers were tricking Hope — a foil-wrapped box about the size and weight of a Mini Cooper — into thinking it was speeding at more than 10,000 miles per hour as it pulled into orbit at Mars. It was a simulation to make sure that the guidance, navigation and control systems would respond correctly to a variety of less-than-perfect circumstances when it arrives at Mars for real next year.
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Korito Fufukowa, a graduate from Japan's Tokyo University, came with his two friends to meet me and expressed his d… https://t.co/zhwLN9hMox teacheranand (from Patna, Bihar) Sun Feb 23 10:20:28 +0000 2020
Japan has just approved the first mission to bring back a small sample from one of Mars's two moons. https://t.co/SdGfyzhGlA techreview (from Cambridge, MA) Sun Feb 23 16:53:33 +0000 2020
.@374AirliftWing participated for the first time in Japan's annual, nationwide Joint Bilateral Disaster Relief Exer… https://t.co/uYZeg53kKz starsandstripes (from Washington D.C.) Mon Feb 24 03:15:00 +0000 2020
Japan's space agency moving ahead with Phobos lander mission https://t.co/2pI49W73OT by @SciGuySpace arstechnica (from NYC - Boston - Chicago - SF) Thu Feb 20 14:48:04 +0000 2020
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