China’s national space agency on Thursday published high-resolution images of Mars captured by the country’s Tianwen-1 probe, which is currently orbiting the Red planet. These images include two panchromatic view and one colour image, said the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The panchromatic images were taken by the high-resolution camera of China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-1 meaning […]
NASA has launched its Mars Perseverance Rover on July 30 at 17:20 IST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida to search for signs in the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover liftoff took place at 7:50 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. NASA arranged for a live broadcast of the launch for […]
China successfully launched its first Mars probe on Thursday from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, official media here reported. About 36 minutes after the Mars probe was launched, the spacecraft, including an orbiter and a rover, was sent into the Earth-Mars transfer orbit, according to the China National […]
NASA’s Mars Rover was designed to bring success to NASA’s long-awaited Mars mission; but as is the case with any venture into space, nothing can be predicted beforehand. Likewise, NASA’s Mars rover “Insight” came into contact with a few difficulties, and a foreign media reported that the rover failed to complete the mission that it […]
China on Friday named its first Mars exploration mission to be launched later this year as Tianwen-1 as it celebrated Space Day to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite Dong Fang Hong-1 in 1970. Aiming to catch up with India, the US, Russia, and the European Union to reach […]
Brendan Byrne tweeted that the United States Air Force C-17A Globemaster III will carry NASA’s ‘Mars 2020’ rover over to the Shuttle Landing Facility at Florida on 13th February 2020. The Mars 2020 rover will thereby be processed ahead of its launch to the Red Planet from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 sometime later […]
NASA’s next-generation mission Mars 2020 is a focus on astrobiology or the study of life throughout the universe. Scientists of NASA Mars 2020 rover have discovered one of the best places that can hint researchers with signs of ancient life in the Jezero crater, as the rover lands on February 18, 2021. Scientists have identified […]
NASA announced a new tool that will be for drilling the surface of Mars. The tool is attached to a rover which is being tested in the Atacama Desert in Chile called ARADS. The aim of the drill is to trace tiny, living microbes or their fossilized remains on Mars that indicate the life on […]
SpaceX successfully launched its Starhopper test rocket to the height of 150 meters at the Texas launch base in Boca Chica. The American FAA had only permitted for a 150-meter height, and Starhopper successfully climbed to the prescribed height, floated there for about 57 seconds, and then started its gradual descend which finally landed. The […]
NASA’s InSight lander has named a Martian rock which got knocked a few inches away from its original place, Rolling Stones Rock, after the famous rock and roll band of the same name. Elated by this news, the Rolling Stones members, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood, commented, “What a wonderful way […]
It has been seven years that NASA Curiosity has landed over Mars, and since then it has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 km) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current location. In July, Curiosity took detailed images of “Strathdon,” a rock made of dozens of sediment layers. For several past months, […]
