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Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars – from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this summer, and you're invited to participate remotely – with a global, collective launch countdown where you can submit your own videos, take a photo on Mars or next to the rover, dive into an interactive launch packet, and sign up to send your name to Mars on a future space mission.
Quite a lot has been going on:
A weird long cloud on Mars has returned. It's right on schedule, scientists say. | Space
A weird long cloud has formed so many times over the same Martian volcano that scientists have given up and named it.
Meet the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud , or AMEC. Its long bright trail has become a familiar feature over the peak known as Arsia Mons, to the southeast of the more famous Olympus Mons . Although the cloud comes and goes over the volcano, scientists say it isn't formed by the volcano itself. And it is timely: Scientists affiliated with Europe's Mars Express orbiter were waiting for it to show up again on its yearly cycle.
Return of the extremely elongated cloud on Mars
These images of the cloud, which can reach up to 1800-km in length, were taken on 17 and 19 July by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express, which has been studying the Red Planet from orbit for the past 16 years.
"We have been investigating this intriguing phenomenon and were expecting to see such a cloud form around now," explains Jorge Hernandez-Bernal, Ph.D. candidate at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and lead author of the ongoing study.
China's Mars probe completes first orbital correction - Xinhua | English.news.cn
This is an image of the scene taken at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 2, 2020. China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully carried out its first orbital correction at 7 a.m. (2300 GMT Saturday) after its 3,000N engine worked for 20 seconds, and continued to head for the Mars. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully carried out its first orbital correction Sunday morning, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
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This Week at NASA - A Rover Headed to Mars, Commercial Crew Return and More - SpaceRef
Our next Mars rover is on its way, preparing for the historic return of a Commercial Crew mission, and naming the crew for a future mission ... a few of the stories to tell you about - This Week at NASA.
Mars Electric outlasts competitor and expands in Akron
This photo illustration shows Mars Electric's new Akron branch on Opportunity Parkway on the July Fourth holiday.
It wasn't a health scare that slowed Mars down this spring, it was a construction slump. The electrical supply distributor, like other companies, says it saw its business take a hit in the early days of the crisis, with sales down as much as 30%.
But when its biggest competitor shut down in April, Mars picked up market share and resumed its growth plans, starting with an expansion in Akron, said Mars vice president of sales Michael Mammone. In June, Mars opened a 12,000-square-foot branch at 190 Opportunity Parkway in the southwest part of downtown Akron.
This Week: Mars in 4K and Silence on Earth - Eos
Bringing Mars Rocks to Earth: Our Greatest Interplanetary Circus Act. With the latest Mars missions heading toward their destination, there is growing anticipation about what all this new robotic instrumentation might soon reveal of the Red Planet. Of course, planetary scientists and engineers have also long had the goal of bringing bits of Mars back to Earth for much closer, hands-on investigations. The complex plan taking shape to do that has a certain "Are you kidding me?
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Observatories are spectacular and meticulously-engineered hubs of scientific research. They also work best when we maroon them in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
Happening on Twitter
LIVE NOW: Following a successful launch from @NASAKennedy, join Administrator @JimBridenstine & leadership for an u… https://t.co/JfyGRWrOCR NASA Thu Jul 30 15:30:34 +0000 2020
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Was there once life on Mars? 👀 Our @NASAPersevere rover aims to find out during her @NASAAstrobio mission on the… https://t.co/ReKq5k78Bc NASA Sun Jul 26 17:45:06 +0000 2020
#CountdownToMars begins tomorrow, bright and early! Join me. I'll be live Tweeting the launch...with a big mug of… https://t.co/Cs6CF5uMSm maejemison (from Houston, Texas) Wed Jul 29 23:34:51 +0000 2020
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