Mars

Russia Considers Simulated Mars Mission on the Space Station

[/caption] Russia and ESA are just finishing up a 500-day simulated Mars mission here on Earth, and now Roscosmos, Russia’s…

13 years ago

Phobos and Jupiter Conjunction in 3 D and Amazing Animation – Blastoff to Martian Moon near

http://youtu.be/u60IkqWF5D4 Video Caption: Phobos and Jupiter in Conjunction - taken from Mars orbit ! A movie of the 1 June…

13 years ago

Mars Likely Not Ever Warm and Wet Enough for Life – At Least on Surface

[/caption] Mars’ surface was probably not ever warm and wet long enough to support life, a new study published today…

13 years ago

Mars Express Experiences Multiple ‘Safe Mode’ Events

[/caption] Mars Express has been a fixture in orbit around the Red Planet for almost eight years, but problems with…

13 years ago

Closing the Clamshell on a Martian Curiosity

[/caption] Curiosity’s clamshell has been closed. And it won’t open up again until a few minutes after she blasts off…

13 years ago

Russia Fuels Phobos-Grunt and sets Mars Launch for November 9

[/caption] Russia’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, has set November 9 as the launch date for the Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars and…

13 years ago

Curiosity Buttoned Up for Martian Voyage in Search of Life’s Ingredients

[/caption] Take a good last, long look at the magnificent robot that is Curiosity, because she’s been all buttoned up…

13 years ago

Phobos-Grunt: The Mission Poster

[/caption] Russia is marking the upcoming blastoff of their dauntingly complex Phobos-Grunt sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos…

13 years ago

Daring Russian Sample Return mission to Martian Moon Phobos aims for November Liftoff

[/caption] In just over 3 weeks' time, Russia plans to launch a bold mission to Mars whose objective, if successful…

13 years ago

Mystery of the Martian Rilles

[/caption] When the first spacecraft flew by Mars in the 1960's, the images returned revealed a relatively uninteresting-looking place, featureless…

13 years ago