(CNN) China's space agency revealed the name of its first Mars exploration mission on Friday, and said the mission is on track to take place "in the coming months."
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Mars Calls for a New Plan by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
It’s the last day of Mars in Capricorn and an excellent time to review issues of power, leadership and control. How have you influenced others? What tools have been working for you? How well have you been able to steer your own actions and keep on track with your goals? Mars favors adjustments to plan and approach.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Everyone has a different emotional reality. You’ll listen until you understand another person. If you don’t quite get there, you’re already a million miles closer to resolution than people who try other tactics.
Revealed: How a spacecraft will bring Mars rocks to Earth
An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover, which is due to land on Mars in February 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The first step in this interplanetary heist will come in July, when NASA launches its Perseverance rover to roll around on the Martian surface and collect tubes of dust and rock. Now, officials have laid out exactly how those tubes might find their way back to Earth. It's a soaringly ambitious, sure-to-be-expensive, international endeavour that involves sending multiple spacecraft to Mars to fetch the precious samples.
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Gets Balanced – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
The mission team performed a crucial weight-balancing test on the rover in preparation for this summer's history-making launch to the Red Planet.
With 13 weeks to go before the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opens, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On April 8, the assembly, test and launch operations team completed a crucial mass properties test of the rover.
Precision mass properties measurements are essential to a safe landing on Mars because they help ensure that the spacecraft travels accurately throughout its trip to the Red Planet — from launch through its entry, descent and landing.
Many things are taking place:
Even from Home, NASA Team Keeps Mars Explorer Moving
While such change can be difficult for any worker, it can be even harder for a scientist or engineer who cannot work in their usual laboratory setting.
The American space agency NASA employs a large number of these workers. Almost all of them have been working from home for the past month.
Recently, the NASA team that controls the Curiosity explorer on Mars showed that they were able to perform their daily duties completely from their homes. NASA recently reported on the team's latest activities on its website .
Tips on Surviving Confinement From a Mars Simulation Crew | Digital Trends
If you’re struggling in quarantine right now, you might look for advice from someone how has survived a truly extreme confinement situation, such as an astronaut who was part of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Mars500 simulation study.
Simulation missions are psychological experiments to learn about how humans fare in the space environment, without actually sending anyone to space. Especially for missions to Mars, which will require long travel times, a crew will have to work together in difficult circumstances for over a year, with little chance to get away from each other or from their tasks.
UAE-built Mars orbiter arrives at launch site ahead of July liftoff - NASASpaceFlight.com
An Emirati-built Mars explorer, named Al Amal (“Hope” in English) and developed by engineers at the Mohammed bin Rashed Space Centre, has been shipped to the JAXA-run Tanegashima Space Center for final checkouts and preparations ahead of its launch aboard an H-IIA rocket. The launch window for this mission is currently scheduled to open July 14th, with an arrival at the Red Planet set for 2021.
The Hope spacecraft is the singular major component of the Emirates Mars Mission, which will study the Martian atmosphere and weather, daily and seasonal weather cycles, and how the climate varies in different regions. The scientific data that will be collected from Hope will help us answer key questions about Mars’ atmosphere, such as why gaseous hydrogen and oxygen are being lost to space and how the planet’s drastic climate changes occur.
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