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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Spots Wreckage From Perseverance Landing
During a flight on April 19, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter snapped a photo of the wrecked backshell and parachute that helped land the Perseverance rover…
The Interesting Seismic Activity We Started To Detect On Mars
Earth isn’t the only planet to experience violent quakes. What’s impressive about those on Mars it that they’ve happened without plate tectonics. Source: https://www.slashgear.com/841188/the-interesting-seismic-activity-we-started-to-detect-on-mars/ Droolin’…
Why Mars Has Two Speeds Of Sound
NASA’s rover Perserverence delivered data that showed researchers how, unlike our own Earth, the red planet Mars has more than one speed of sound. Source:…
See Ingenuity hovering over the surface of Mars as captured by Perseverance
A new video from NASA shows the plucky little Mars helicopter Ingenuity in action, as captured by the Perseverance rover. Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/ingenuity-flight-perseverance-footage/ Droolin’ Dog sniffed…
NASA highlights the changing Martian environment Curiosity is exploring
It may be a surprise to learn that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the Red Planet for nine years. Over the years, as the…
NASA’s Perseverance rover fails to collect its first Mars rock sample
NASA’s Perseverance rover just had a rare misstep. The space agency has revealed that the robotic vehicle failed to collect Mars rock samples during its…
Underground ‘Lakes’ on Mars May Just Be Big Globs of Clay
Recent hubbub about subsurface lakes detected on Mars has a new twist, as new research argues that the underground structures aren’t lakes at all. The…
NASA’s Ingenuity completes ninth flight despite massive challenge
NASA has announced that Ingenuity, its small Martian helicopter, successfully passed its ninth and most challenging flight thus far, marking a new milestone for the…
China shares video and audio from its Mars rover
China has shared video footageand audio from its Mars rover Zhurong, giving another look at what it’s like to explore the Red Planet. Source: https://www.engadget.com/china-zhurong-mars-rover-video-sound-173845448.html?src=rss_b2c…
New study offers clues about how Mars lost its water
Mars is known for its thin atmosphere, where CO2 dominates and provides most of the atmospheric mass and pressure. In fact, the pressure is similar…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Nails Its Seventh Flight on Mars
The seventh flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars saw the vehicle fly nearly 350 feet to a landing spot that hadn’t been closely surveyed…
China’s Mars rover rolls off landing platform, joining US robots patrolling Red Planet
The rover Zhurong, which successfully landed on Mars last week, departed its landing module and rolled onto the surface of the planet. China is the…
Chinese Mars rover returns first pictures
Imagery comes back from the six-wheeled robot that landed successfully at the weekend. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57172346 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it with…
China makes history with successful Mars landing
A Chinese lander carrying a rover successfully touched down on Mars for the first time, state media reports. Why it matters: This is the first…
China is about to attempt a highly ambitious landing on Mars
Enlarge / Photo taken on Dec. 4, 2020, shows the model of China’s first Mars probe Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover at the Zhejiang International…
Mars helicopter had successful first flight!
Ingenuity—the small helicopter delivered to Mars by the Perseverance rover—has successfully taken its first flight on the Red Planet! he distance between Earth and Mars…
NASA’s Ingenuity team has a software solution to fix the helicopter
Not long ago, we mentioned that NASA ran into a problem when it began to run a test of the Ingenuity Helicopter on the surface…
Well Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
We’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning…
NASA Curiosity Mars rover snaps pictures at Mont Mercou
NASA has multiple rovers and spacecraft on and around Mars, searching for signs of past life, water, and performing various science experiments. One of the…
The enduring questions about Mars are starting to be answered
The rovers and orbiters studying Mars are being tasked with answering the persistent questions that remain about the Red Planet, decades after NASA sent its…
Small piece of Wright brothers plane will take flight on Mars
NASA’s Martian chopper, named Ingenuity, will take flight on the red planet some time in April, and attached to the helicopter is a fabric swatch…
Alien skull seen in new Mars Rover image and other fun anomalies spotted on the Red Planet this week
The above extraterrestrial skull was spotted in the high-resolution 360-degree panorama image captured this week by NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Cosmic Log presents a…
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