Mars

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Opportunity, a story of a piece of cold metal with a warm hearth

Opportunity liftoff on board of Delta II rocket. Credit Nasa's Mars Exploration program

Opportunity was a milestone in human exploration on the red planet, let's retrace his exploits over the years that saw his stay on Mars

Federico Coppola
14/03/2023

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Will The Mars Sample Return Mission Discover Alien Life?

Mars Sample Return mission overview. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech

Returning samples from the Red Planet has never been attempted before, but NASA and ESA are gonna try it with the "Mars Sample Return" program

Filippo Zamprogna
09/03/2023

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NASA has selected Blue Origin to launch a mission to Mars

Illustration of the ESCAPADE spacecraft in orbit around Mars. Credits: Rocket Lab

NASA has selected Blue Origin to launch the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission to Mars

Benedetta Facini
12/02/2023

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NASA’s Perseverance deposited its fourth sample on the Martian Surface

Photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover shows a small, white sample tube lying on the sandy surface of Mars. About the size of a marker, the tube sits in the shadow of the rover that released it. Part of the rover’s left rear wheel is visible at top right, along with tracks it has made on the dusty ground. The tube sits with its sealed end pointed toward the camera. In addition to a mainly matte white body, parts of the tube appear silver, gold and gray in certain areas.

On Jan. 04, 2023, the Mars Perseverance Rover deposited the fourth out of a total of ten titanium tubes containing rock samples on the Red Planet.

Giovanni Facchinetti
06/01/2023

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The end: after 4 years of great science discoveries the Mars InSight Mission is over

Artist impression of NASA InSight Mars Rover. Credits: NASA JPL

Due to the presence of dust on the solar panels, the Mars InSight Rover mission has been declared over after 4 years of service.

Francesco Sebastiano Moro
23/12/2022

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Mars manned exploration plan: at the edge of reality

The Mars surface lander called the Mars Accent Descent Vehicle (MADV) is a single-stage system that uses Orion systems as the command deck. It could allow astronauts to explore the surface for two weeks at a time before returning back to the Mars Base Camp in orbit around Mars. Photo Credits: Lockheed Martin.

Since its discovery, Mars caught the attention of humanity. Now we have the technologies to reach the Red Planet, but when we can do it? In this article, we will explore the incredible concept proposed by Lockheed Martin.

Filippo Zamprogna
01/12/2022