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19.01.2022 It's no secret that NASA scientists love to hide messages aboard its missions. Space fans thought they knew about all of the Easter eggs on the Mars Perseverance rover but more surprises were revealed over the weekend, on Easter Sunday. The first is a unique, 17-digit ID on the mission nameplate, reading "AONREHMELN1730055" the first official, off-planet Product Identification Number (PIN). NASA compared it to a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) on a car. PIN numbers ...are given to off-road vehicles, which now includes the six-wheeled, self-driving Mars rover. https://www.cbsnews.com//nasa-hidden-easter-egg-messages-/ See more
17.01.2022 To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built a simulated Martian landscape on Earth and took the new rover out for a test drive. The Tianwen-1 Mars mission, which launched to the Red Planet in July and aims to land a rover on the surface in April 2021 tested out the fake Martian terrain in a test bed at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) in Beijing, China. https://www.space.com/china-mars-yard-video-tour.html
14.01.2022 NASA's InSight lander on Mars has detected two more crisp quakes on the Red Planet, both stemming from the same region where the mission's previous best observations originated. The robotic geophysicist landed on Mars in November 2018 and, after a few months of preparation, its seismometer began feeling for so-called "marsquakes." The mission identified more than 500 quakes in its first Martian year but lately, heavy winds have prevented the clear signal that scientists need to detect small rumbles in the Red Planet. Now, the weather has turned and in March, mission personnel detected two quakes stronger than magnitude 3.0. https://www.space.com/mars-insight-lander-detects-two-sizab
13.01.2022 The Red Planet is wiggling and wobbling as it spins, research in the journal Geophysical Research Letters confirms, and astronomers have no idea why. Like a toy top that teeters as it loses speed, the poles of Mars are wandering ever-so-slightly away from the planet's axis of rotation, moving about 4 inches (10 centimeters) off-center every 200 days or so, researchers reported in a study published Oct. 13, 2020. That makes Mars only the second known planet in the universe to exhibit this phenomenon known as the Chandler wobble with Earth being the first, according to the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) news blog, Eos.org. https://www.space.com/mars-chandler-wobble
12.01.2022 Mars' bizarre dark streaks may not be so astrobiologically intriguing after all. Those streaks, known as recurring slope lineae, were discovered in 2011 by scientists studying imagery captured by the powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). As their name suggests, recurring slope lineae, or RSL for short, are found on Red Planet slopes. The marks creep down steep inclines, especially in Mars' southern hemisp...here, during warm times of the year and fade away as the weather cools. https://www.space.com/mars-dark-streaks-probably-not-water See more
11.01.2022 The landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover next month will make serious waves, some of which may help scientists better understand the Red Planet's structure. Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion life-hunting, sample-caching Mars 2020 mission, is scheduled to touch down inside the 28-mile-wide (45 km) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. The epic landing will generate seismic signals that one of the rover's cousins, NASA's InSight Mars lander, will try to detect from more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) away, a new study reports. https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-rover-perseverance-landing-
10.01.2022 The touchdown of NASA's next Mars rover is less than a month away. The car-size Perseverance rover, the core of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, will land Feb. 18, kicking off a new era of Red Planet exploration. https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-landing-one-m
05.01.2022 NASA's Perseverance rover is slowly getting ready to deploy the first helicopter on Mars even as it takes a look back at the litter it's dropping on the Red Planet. The rover, which was carefully sterilized on Earth to avoid contaminating Mars with microbes, dropped a protective debris shield onto the planet's surface on March 21. The shield is no longer needed as it was designed to protect Ingenuity during the "seven minutes of terror" landing in February. https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-unfolding-under-perse
03.01.2022 With the NASA Perseverance rover on its way to the Red Planet, NASA is getting ready for the next major step in Mars exploration a sample return mission. NASA recently established a Mars Sample Return Program Independent Review Board to evaluate how to safely bring Martian rocks and materials back to Earth, the agency said in a statement Friday (Aug. 14). https://www.space.com/mars-sample-return-independent-review
02.01.2022 The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has unlocked its two rotor blades as preparations continue for the vehicle's first flight, due to occur no earlier than Sunday (April 11). Ingenuity arrived on Mars Feb. 18 along with NASA's Perseverance rover, having made the long trek out to the Red Planet tucked inside the rover's belly. As of April 4, the little chopper has parted ways with Perseverance, preparing to take to the skies during a month-long test campaign. If Ingenuity's Sunday sortie is successful, it will be the first powered, guided flight on another planet. https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-unlocks-rot
