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    NASA to Fly Mini Helicopter on Mars in April

    NASA to Fly Mini Helicopter on Mars in April

    NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will make the first attempt at powered, controlled test flight on another planet in early April, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday. If all goes to plan, the flights will be considered a proof of concept that could revolutionize space exploration. Such future aircraft would shorten expedition times and enable […]

    NASA Releases First Video and Audio of Mars Landing

    NASA Releases First Video and Audio of Mars Landing

    U..S space agency NASA has released a video and the first ever audio clip from Mars, a faint wind sound captured by the Perseverance rover. Several images of the landing were released earlier, but it took days for the video signal to be relayed to Earth. The 3 minute 25 second video clip released on […]

    Three Mars Missions Arriving in February 2021

    Three Mars Missions Arriving in February 2021

    By Zulfikar Abbany The next few weeks in February will bring nail-biting moments of truth for three countries — indeed, the world — as three separate Mars missions approach the Red Planet. The United Arab Emirates, China and the United States each launched separate missions to Mars in July 2020, and they are all about […]

    Looking for Evidence of Past Life on Mars

    Looking for Evidence of Past Life on Mars

    By Jim Bell Editor’s note: Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars missions. On Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface. […]

    Artemis, Orion and the Quest to Get Humans to the Moon Again

    Artemis, Orion and the Quest to Get Humans to the Moon Again

    By Zulfikar Abbany If you’ve ever been on a tour of a cleanroom — a sterile environment where engineers build and test satellites and other spacecraft — you will know it’s a pretty surreal experience. You’re standing there, starring up at a rough and unfinished-looking object, seemingly wrapped in kitchen aluminum foil, with wires and […]

    2021: What Astronomical and Space Events Await Us This Year?

    2021: What Astronomical and Space Events Await Us This Year?

    By Dirk Lorenzen 2021 begins as a year of Mars. Although our red planetary neighbor isn’t as prominent as it was last autumn, it is still noticeable with its characteristic reddish color in the evening sky until the end of April. In early March, Mars shines close to the star cluster Pleiades in the constellation […]