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The MRO orbiter has found a disabled InSight lander among the Martian dust. With the help of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), a dead robot was seen on the surface of the Red Planet,writes Mashable. The main goal of the MRO mission is to observe the surface of Mars in search of evidence of the […]
By 2050, Mars will be home to at least a million people. They will be delivered there by a flotilla of Starship spacecraft. This is the biggest dream of the American inventor and billionaire Elon Musk, which he shared a few years ago on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The talented engineer, who is […]
NASA has shared an image of the Ingenuity helicopter standing alone on a Martian dune – it broke down during its last flight and will never rise above the surface of the Red Planet again. The rover will move further and further away from him until the connection is broken. The Ingenuity helicopter became the […]
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed an ancient river that flowed across the surface of Mars billions of years ago. The image was published in NASA’s Planetary Photo Journal. The photo shows the ridges in the Aeolis Planum region, which are the embodiment of an ancient river that once flowed across Mars in an era […]
The Jezero crater in the northern part of Mars, formed by a meteorite, once contained a huge lake and a river delta, which gives hope for finding remnants of life in the past. According to Science Daily, this was confirmed by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover using a special radar. Over the centuries, sedimentation and erosion […]
In 2021, a historic event took place on Mars: aviation appeared on it. It was Ingenuity – literally a smartphone with a propeller – and this Martian helicopter has been traveling around Mars for the past three years. But he recently flew a flight: at the end of his 72nd flight, he damaged the propeller […]
A new artificial intelligence system has successfully detected dozens of entrances to caves on Mars using images of the planet’s surface where people could live. This was reported by the British edition of The Independent. Researchers from Durham University in the UK have trained the CaveFinder machine learning algorithm to recognize potential cave entrances from […]
NASA is developing a new concept of a solar-powered aircraft capable of flying over the surface of Mars. This concept, known as the Mars Aerial and Ground Intelligent Explorer (MAGGIE), was announced as part of the Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. MAGGIE is a compact, ultra-high performance solar-powered aircraft designed to fly in the Martian […]
At the end of 2023, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a “time-lapse” of a Martian day for 12 hours from one position, capturing its own shadow on the landscape. According to NASA, Curiosity was instructed to record the 12-hour sequence a few days before the start of the solar conjunction on Mars, a natural phenomenon that […]
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the latest news from Mars. NASA’s Odyssey orbiter captured an unusual view of the Mars horizon with a camera. The department itself called the photos “stunning.” The images were taken from an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers above the surface of Mars, at about the […]