Move Over, Mars - Government Executive
Astronomers across the globe entered a similar state of feverish excitement yesterday. There have been no reports of fainting—yet—but just like Rittenhouse, they are overwhelmed by a new opportunity to experience our next-door neighbor.
NASA has picked not one, but two new spacecraft missions to study the second planet from the sun. The missions—a probe that will plunge into Venus's atmosphere and an orbiter that will remain circling overhead—are expected to leave Earth at the end of this decade.
Cleaning solar modules with sand and wind, on Mars – pv magazine International
NASA scientists have partially cleaned up the solar modules of the Insight lander operating on Mars, by using grain sands collected nearby and trickling them on the panels during the windiest time of the day. This handmade technique has made it possible, according to them, to increase the PV array’s yield of about 30 watt-hours of energy per ‘sol,’ or Martian day.
Insight is a robotic lander designed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and sent to Mars in 2018 to study the deep interior of The Red Planet. Since it started operating, at around 344 million kilometers from the Earth, the lander has accumulated dust on many of its parts, including the PV array that is crucial for repowering its batteries and keeping the machine functioning.
A new water treatment technology could also help Mars explorers: A catalyst that destroys
A team led by UC Riverside engineers has developed a catalyst to remove a dangerous chemical from water on Earth that could also make Martian soil safer for agriculture and help produce oxygen for human Mars explorers.
Perchlorate, a negative ion consisting of one chlorine atom bonded to four oxygen atoms, occurs naturally in some soils on Earth, and is especially abundant in Martian soil. As a powerful oxidizer, perchlorate is also manufactured and used in solid rocket fuel, fireworks, munitions, airbag initiators for vehicles, matches and signal flares. It is a byproduct in some disinfectants and herbicides.
Mock Mars rover conquers Capstone Lab - News @ Northeastern
In an adjoining conference room, Ben Thacher's eyes are glued to his laptop screen. His thumbs wobble over the joysticks of a controller as the electrical and computer engineering student directs the rover—named Watney Mark 2.1—toward a wooden tower.
This six-wheeled rover is the Northeastern University Mars Rover Team's entry in The Mars Society's University Rover Challenge, an annual competition in which qualifying teams from schools around the world design mechanical explorers that can emulate the tasks that a rover would need to perform during a mission to Mars. Those undertakings include equipment servicing, autonomous navigation, and extreme retrieval and delivery.
'Robot swarms' could build Mars shelters underground | Popular Science
A European robotics team won a grant to study how robots could 3D-print underground shelters on Mars.
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction. In one European team's proposal for off-world construction, swarms of autonomous, cooperative robots would dig and reinforce underground ant-like colonies for human habitation on Mars.
The European Space Agency recently awarded a grant to a team of engineers at the Robotic Building lab at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, to study how robot swarms could build such structures. This month, the founder and current leader of the lab, engineer Henriette Bier, posted some preliminary details of her team's concept, which would use Zebro robots to excavate underground housing networks on the red planet, fortified with Martian, 3D-printed concrete.
Tianwen-1 sent back HD images of landing site on Mars - Global Times
Named after an ancient fire god of Chinese mythology, the 1.85-meter-tall and some 240-kilogram Zhurong Mars rover safely ...
China's Zhurong Mars rover has sent back data via orbiter, according to the WeChat account of China's lunar ...
Mars Hill names Boggs assistant coach | Sports News | statesville.com
Tatum Boggs has been named an assistant coach for the Mars Hill women's basketball team, the school's athletic department announced.
Boggs completed work study and internship hours with the Mars Hill athletic department during her senior season, as well as revamped the women's basketball program's social media presence.
She joined the Mars Hill Athletic Communications staff as a graduate assistant last summer and also served as a volunteer coach for the women's basketball program during the 2020-21 season.
Celestial News: Mars and Venus visit the beehive | SteamboatToday.com
As the month of June opens, two planets adorn our evening sky: Venus and Mars. Both are passing through the constellation of the Gemini Twins in early June. Venus is exceptionally bright. Mars is much dimmer, but its reddish color gives it away.
In spite of its brilliance, Venus is challenging to see in the opening days of June because it is still relatively close to the sun, setting about an hour and a half after the sun does. Your best chance of seeing it will be about 45 minutes to one hour after sunset in the fading twilight glow. Look very low in the northwestern sky.
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