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BOULDER, Colo. — Scientists are gearing up for NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, an orbiter equipped to probe the Martian upper atmosphere for clues to how the Red Planet's atmosphere has thinned and how Mars' climate has evolved over time. TheMars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, ...
Axiom Space's next astronaut mission will be delayed due to the approval process required for International Space Station crews, according to NASA.
InSight is the first mission of NASA to investigate the deep interior of Mars and is part of a legacy of robotic exploration that is helping to lay the groundwork for sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. The mission will place a stationary lander near Mars' equator. With two solar panels...
NASA officials said the delay of the InSight mission wouldn't affect the schedule of any other missions to Mars. The three sensors on the seismometer need a vacuum seal around them to withstand the harsh, frigid Martian environment. Leaks had showed up during previous tests and mission team me...
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is currently on Mars, can only drill and analyze the dust of rocks. Perseverance will drill into rocks and take a core sample from them. The ability to take and process these samples, and prepare them for a future return mission, lies at the heart of this...
NASA's next Mars mission, Maven, is being prepared for its mission within Lockheed Martin's high-bay cleanroom at a facility in Littleton, Colo. (Image credit: Leonard David/SPACE.com) LITTLETON, Colo. – NASA's next mission to the Red Planet is undergoing extensive testing in ...
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The Mars 2020 mission would build on the work being done by NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring thered planetsince August 2012 and has already found evidence of potentially habitable environments. John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science, said the 2020 Mars rover wo...