Mars probe News
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The participants were investigating various fields relevant to a future Mars mission, including satellite communications, the psychological effects of isolation, radiation measurements and searching for life signs in the soil.
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While typical missions to the International Space Station (ISS) last just six months, a round-trip mission to Mars could last three years.
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The rocket was originally supposed to take flight back in 2013 or 2014, but its maiden flight is now pegged for January 2018.
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JPL is also developing a new landing technology that will allow the rover to visit sites deemed too risky for Curiosity and shave miles off its journey.
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The study is based on observations made with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA on Wednesday stated, that India ranks third in the global list with regard to the number of names submitted for the Mars mission.
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After Pathfinder (1997), the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were designed with 10 cameras each, including on their landers; Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover has 17.
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The grains of sand that make up sand dunes on Earth and Mars have a hazardous existence because of the way that they travel.
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Phobos has an oblong shape with an average diameter of about 22 kilometres.
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Thanks to MAVEN, scientists have discovered that a solar event has sparked a global aurora at the Martian surface and caused the radiation level to double than highest ever recorded.
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Data will keep coming from Mars to Earth, although loss or corruption of some bits is anticipated and the data will be retransmitted later.
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Researchers plan to drive Opportunity down Perseverance Valley after completing a "walkabout" survey of the area above it.
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The image was taken on June 5, 2017, two months before the fifth anniversary of Curiosity's landing near Mount Sharp on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6, 2017, EDT and Universal Time).
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Curiosity's primary goal when it landed inside Gale Crater in 2012 was to determine whether Mars has ever offered environmental conditions favourable for microbial life.
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The process that carved Perseverance Valley into the rim of Endeavour Crater billions of years ago has not yet been identified.
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Research on the planet's structure, composition and environment would be conducted.
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After much debate and discussion, the participants in a landing site workshop for the 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
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Not just Mars, but China also plans to take its deep space exploration program forward by launching a probe to Jupiter.
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Space Day, falling on April 24, has been selected as the day the final name for the Mars probe will be announced.
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Curiosity has beamed back in what appears to be beautifully detailed colour images of the Martian surface.
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