An elevation map of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's 2020 Mars Perseverance rover. Lighter colours represent higher elevation.
This image was created using data from a combination of instruments and spacecraft: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and its Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA); NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) and Context Camera (CTX); and the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express. It was originally published in November 2019.
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Sols 2810-2815: No Holidays on Mars – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
To give the (American) Earthlings a holiday on Friday, we planned 5 sols of activities for Curiosity today. But our rover will certainly not be taking any days off, with a mix of science and engineering activities over the long weekend. We are continuing to update the rover computer’s flight software, which will preclude nearly all science activities during the first and last sols of those 5 sols. In between is a fairly normal 3-sol weekend plan.
We started planning today with the realization that the rover had adjusted its position from the previous sol and the front left wheel moved downward onto the surface. This uncertainty in our position precluded contact science at this location, but GEO still scheduled a full list of remote sensing science with ChemCam and Mastcam before we drive away over the weekend.
Behold! The Martian Menu, Courtesy of Mars City Design! - Universe Today
Regular resupply missions to Mars are simply not feasible, which means astronauts and settlers will have to grow their own food. To inspire ideas for how this could be done, and what the resulting meals would be like, Vera Mulyani and the organization she founded ( Mars City Design ) created the Martian Feast Gala . This annual event showcases what a Martian Menu could consist of and illustrates how every challenge is an opportunity to get creative!
“The belief of how food can make the long-duration mission, away from home, feel home. The understanding that if we change the way we eat, we can improve our environment, our health, and our behavior as a result of the improvement made from the health of our gut flora and our environment.”
Video: Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars
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Mars may have been a ringed planet in its ancient past, study suggests | Fox News
There are four planets in the Solar System that have rings — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A new study, however, suggests that Mars may have also once been a ringed planet.
The research highlights that one of Mars' moons, Deimos, has a slightly altered orbit that suggests there was something responsible for its slight tilt.
“The fact that Deimos’s orbit is not exactly in plane with Mars’s equator was considered unimportant, and nobody cared to try to explain it,” said the study's lead author Matija Ćuk, a research scientist at the SETI Institute, in a statement . “But once we had a big new idea and we looked at it with new eyes, Deimos’s orbital tilt revealed its big secret.”
The Launch Is Approaching for NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance – NASA's Mars Exploration
Mars 2020 Rover Is Roving : In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
The Red Planet's surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth.
"Fifty-one years ago today, NASA was deep into final preparations for the first Moon landing," said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. "Today we stand at the threshold of another monumental moment in exploration: sample collection at Mars.
NASA delays Mars rover launch to no earlier than July 30 – Spaceflight Now
A technical issue with the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will send NASA’s $2.4 billion Perseverance rover toward Mars has pushed the mission’s launch date back to no earlier than July 30, nearly two weeks into a month-long window for the rover to head to the Red Planet, or else face a two-year delay.
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“Due to launch vehicle processing delays in preparation for spacecraft mate operations, NASA and United Launch Alliance have moved the first launch attempt of the Mars 2020 mission to no earlier than July 30,” NASA said. “A liquid oxygen sensor line presented off-nominal data during the Wet Dress Rehearsal, and additional time is needed for the team to inspect and evaluate.”
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