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by Glenda Kwek Agence France-Presse ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) — Futurist and inventor Elon Musk unveiled ambitious plans Friday to send cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth’s major cities in under half-an-hour. The founder of SpaceX said a planned interplanetary transport system, codenamed BFR (Big Fucking Rocket), would be downsized so it could carry out a range of tasks that would then pay for future Mars missions. […]
ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) — A reusable, water-powered Mars lander that will allow humans to explore the Red Planet from an orbiting ‘base camp’ as early as the 2030s was unveiled Friday by US defence giant Lockheed Martin. Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions next decade into the space between Earth and the Moon to prepare for trips to Mars. Lockheed Martin has been […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released Monday that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather. Up to now, it was thought that snow falling from low-lying Martian clouds settled slowly and sparsely to the ground in a environment bereft of violent winds. The new findings, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggest that ice-water particles swirling in a storm hit the […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) – The first test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule, designed to one day carry people to Mars, has been delayed until 2019 at the earliest due to high costs, the United States space agency said Friday. The unmanned test flight had been scheduled for November 2018 but was pushed back after the White House asked for a feasibility study of the cost, safety and technical constraints. The […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday. The Martian Moons Exploration project would launch a probe in 2024 destined for Phobos, the largest and closest of two moons circling the Red Planet. Paris and Tokyo signed a preliminary agreement on Monday, and will make a final decision before the […]
by Paulina Abramovich ESTACION YUNGAY, Chile (AFP) — Chile’s Atacama desert may seem to contain little besides red-grey rocks and sand — but scientists are busy searching here for clues to life in a place it much resembles: Mars. This desert in northern Chile, like the red planet, is hot, dusty and extremely dry. Yet life exists here: tiny algae and bacteria that have evolved to survive in the parched earth on little more than […]
(Reuters) — A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said. The AstroRad Radiation Shield has been devised by Tel Aviv-based StemRad, which has already produced and marketed a belt to protect rescue workers from harmful gamma ray radiation emitted in nuclear disasters, such as Chernobyl and Fukushima. The vest […]
Reuters — A NASA science satellite circling Mars had to maneuver this week to avoid crashing into one of the planet’s two small moons, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday (March 2). The MAVEN spacecraft, which is studying Mars’ vanishing atmosphere, fired up its engine on Tuesday to boost its speed by about 1.3 feet per second (0.4 meters per second) so it could steer clear of the Martian moon Phobos, the National Aeronautics […]
Reuters — Images from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) Mission have revealed an ultraviolet, previously unseen, view of Mars. The video was uploaded to social media on Monday (October 17) and shows several images taken by the mission camera. The images were taken between July 9-10, 2016 and show the rapid movement of cloud formation over Mars. Nick Schneider, of the University of Colorado, told Reuters that the ultraviolet colours of the planet […]
(AFP) The European Space Agency hopes that technologies tested during its ExoMars programme could pave the way for a return mission to the Red planet in the 2020s, as well as establish if Mars ever harboured life. A brief history of Mars exploration in videographics. JONATHAN RENAUD DE LA FAVERIE KATHERINE LEVY SPENCER / AFP VIDEOGRAPHICS / AFP In the 20th century US-USSR “Space Race”, NASA was the first to make it to Mars. In […]
(REUTERS) SpaceX is developing a massive rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonizing the planet, company chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday. Musk outlined his plans for the Mars rocket, capable of carrying 100 passengers plus cargo per voyage, even as SpaceX is still investigating why a different rocket carrying a $200 million Israeli satellite blew up on a […]
