Tag: Mars
Mars: Perseverance has made it possible to calculate the speed of sound on the Red Planet
A laser and a microphone. That’s all it took for Perseverance, NASA’s rover, to send astronomers enough information to determine the speed of sound on Mars. With a little surprise…
Venus, Saturn and Mars form a nice triangle in the sky
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Mars Sample Return: sample return postponed to 2033
The program Mars Sample Return (MSR) return of Mars samples is still in the mission design phase, ie phase A (this goes up to the implementation in phase E). It…
A gigantic meteorite impact could have compromised the habitability of Mars
Researchers have found evidence in Martian meteorites that the Red Planet suffered a major meteor impact no more than 4.45 billion years ago. This discovery calls into question the hypothesis…
Ingenuity will criss-cross the sky of Mars for several more months
The Ingenuity drone, which arrived on Mars at the same time as the Perseverance rover in February 2021, will be able to fly until September 2022, or even beyond. A…
ExoMars: the search for life on Mars will still have to wait…
Following its Council meeting, the European Space Agency (ESA) took several decisions following the end of space cooperation with Russia. The most awaited, concerned the fate of the mission ExoMars…
The experimental Ingenuity drone-helicopter will continue to criss-cross the skies of Mars
The Ingenuity drone, which arrived on Mars at the same time as the Perseverance rover in February 2021, will be able to fly until September 2022, or even beyond. A…
A long cloud on Mars, “at the gates of the interplanetary vacuum”, discovered by amateur astronomers
As part of a participatory science program, while the objective was to detect polar auroras on Mars, French amateur astronomers observed and photographed a 3,000 kilometer cloud in the upper…
Discovery of a fascinating “mineral flower” on Mars
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What Curiosity tells us about Mars’ soil formation
In the Gale crater, the Curiosity rover continues to provide us with information on the geology of Mars, on its past environment and in particular on the presence of water.…