Mars 2020 Perseverance in Flight : The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30. NASA's Eyes on the Solar System tool lets you track the spacecraft in real time as it makes its way to Mars for a Feb. 18, 2021, landing. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
A crisply rendered web application can show you where the agency's Mars 2020 mission is right now as it makes its way to the Red Planet for a Feb. 18, 2021, landing.
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NASA Engineers Checking InSight's Weather Sensors – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
InSight Collecting Mars Weather Data (Artist's Concept) : Among InSight's instruments is the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS), which collects data on wind speed and direction, air temperature and pressure, and magnetic fields . Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image & caption ›
An electronics issue is suspected to be preventing the sensors from sharing their data about Mars weather with the spacecraft.
Weather sensors aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander stopped providing data on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020, a result of an issue affecting the sensor suite's electronics. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are working to understand the cause of the issue.
Yes, The First Humans On Mars Should Consider Becoming Cave-Dwellers
The interior of Lava River Cave, shown here, has intact wall linings that showcase the basalt ... [+] interior of the lava tubes. While a "flat floor" may be rare inside lava tubes, both on Earth and Mars, and Martian lava tubes are likely much larger, the interior features should otherwise look much the same.
Mars, as photographed from the surface (L) and from space (R). The Martian surface has many ... [+] unattractive features for humans, including frequent dust storms, large amounts of radiation, enormous temperature swings, and frequent micrometeorite impacts.
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet – NASA's Mars Exploration
The agency's Mars 2020 mission is on its way. It will land at Jezero Crater in about seven months, on Feb. 18, 2021.
Humanity's most sophisticated rover launched with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at 7:50 a.m. EDT (4:50 a.m. PDT) Thursday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
"With the launch of Perseverance, we begin another historic mission of exploration," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "This amazing explorer's journey has already required the very best from all of us to get it to launch through these challenging times. Now we can look forward to its incredible science and to bringing samples of Mars home even as we advance human missions to the Red Planet. As a mission, as an agency, and as a country, we will persevere."
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On Ancient Mars, Sustained Planetwide Storms May Have Filled Lakes and Rivers
New research from The University of Texas at Austin has used dry Martian lake beds to determine how much precipitation was present on the planet billions of years ago. Credit: Gaia Stucky de Quay
The ancient climate of Mars is something of an enigma to scientists. To geologists, the existence of riverbeds and paleolakes — eons-old lake basins — paints a picture of a planet with significant rainfall or snowmelt. But scientists who specialize in computer climate models of the planet have been unable to reproduce an ancient climate with large amounts of liquid water present for long enough to account for the observed geology.
NASA Establishes Board to Initially Review Mars Sample Return Plans | NASA
Ancient Mars Had Planet-Wide Rainstorms So Intense They Breached Its Lakes
New research on the Red Planet's now-empty lakes suggests a huge amount of liquid water must have spilled from the skies roughly 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, enough to sculpt river-like channels and breach several lake basins.
"This is extremely important because 3.5 to 4 billion years ago Mars was covered with water. It had lots of rain or snowmelt to fill those channels and lakes," says planetary scientist Gaia Stucky de Quay from the University of Texas.
Too Much Mars? Let's Discuss Other Worlds - The New York Times
Two veteran space journalists discuss why so much attention and budget seems to be directed to the red planet.
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Rebecca Boyle: So we're going back to Mars. Again, with another rover. Two, perhaps, if both NASA and China's space agency succeed.
It's not that this is disappointing. But there's a certain level of déjà vu with NASA's Perseverance mission, modeled so closely after the successful Curiosity rover in 2011. I have written a lot about the value of exploring Mars and the particularly Earthlike qualities that endear it to us . But even I can't help but wonder what's next in our quest to explore the solar system , and whether so many journeys to Mars are blocking other important science.
Happening on Twitter
Follow NASA's Perseverance rover in real #time on its way to Mars @NASA https://t.co/p8tBUpVp3r physorg_com Sun Aug 23 09:23:23 +0000 2020
With @NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real time as @NASAPersevere - and the Ingenuity #Mars Heli… https://t.co/hQ0POkrqi7 SETIInstitute (from Mountain View, CA) Mon Aug 24 20:27:02 +0000 2020
Don't forget to follow @nasa_eyes to receive real-time updates on @NASAPersevere's journey to the Red Planet! https://t.co/PF9aX4oGIf TheRealBuzz Tue Aug 25 02:06:37 +0000 2020
Where in space is @NASAPersevere? Follow @NASA's Mars 2020 mission in real time >> https://t.co/LqNhHlElbI https://t.co/8w6cwEldRc NASA_SLS (from Huntsville, AL) Mon Aug 24 20:55:00 +0000 2020
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