Tag: Mars
Mars: does this carbon signal detected by Curiosity betray the presence of life?
Carbon is at the heart of life. But not only… So when astronomers get their hands on a rather special form of carbon than the planet Mars, they consider that…
Formation of the Solar System: news on the origin of Mars and the Earth
Some cosmochemists suspected that the Earth and Mars would have formed by accreting significant amounts of matter from the regions where the giant planets were born. Showing that this was…
The rocks of the interior of Mars reproduced in the laboratory on Earth
On Mars, since 2019, the Insight mission has been collecting data concerning seismic waves passing through the mantle of the Red Planet. By reproducing in the laboratory the temperature and…
The Moon in reconciliation with Mars and Antares
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Mars: large quantities of water discovered under the largest canyon in the solar system
There should be no water on the surface of Mars at the equator, and very little there just below that surface. And yet the instruments of the Exomars mission say…
Strange interactions with solar winds detected on a Mars moon
The Mars Express probe, orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, observed the reflection of charged particles contained in solar winds during two flyovers of the moon Phobos. The European Space…
Mars: chatting between the Mars Express probe and the Chinese rover Zhurong
A first communication and data transfer test was successfully carried out between the Chinese rover on the surface of Mars and the ESA Mars Express probe in orbit. You will…
The Moon approaching Mars
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When the winds of Mars allow you to know your subsoil
The InSight mission was sent to Mars in 2018 with a very specific objective: to probe the interior of the Red Planet. And as surprising as it may seem, it…
The winds of Mars can detect what is beneath its surface
The InSight mission was sent to Mars in 2018 with a very specific objective: to probe the interior of the Red Planet. And as surprising as it may seem, it…