Teddy Zanetos, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told reporters Thursday that the broken blade appeared to have hit the surface of Mars during landing, severing “the last 25 percent of the length” of the appendage. . “We lost a large portion of our thrust capacity,” he explained, adding, “we will never know” […]
While climbing the slope of a sedimentary mountain in 2021, Curiosity found salt deposits forming a hexagonal pattern in the soil from about four billion years ago. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the rover’s instruments identified patterns in the form of cracks in the dry soil. “When the lake dries up […]
Relativity aims to build a rocket that is 95 percent 3D-printed. Terran 1 is propelled by engines using liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas—the “propellant of the future,” capable of eventually fueling travel to Mars, says Relativity. SpaceX’s Starship and Vulcan rockets being developed by United Launch Alliance use the same fuel. Relativity is also […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found rippled rocks – evidence of an ancient lake – in a region of the planet that is expected to dry up, the US space agency said on Wednesday. “This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission,” said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist […]
Francois Forget, an astrophysicist at France’s CNRS scientific research center, said that “this new impetus for cooperation is linked to the fact that this time the US has a joint project with Europe: Mars sample return.” The mission, planned for around 2030, aims to return to Earth samples collected from Mars by both ExoMars and […]