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World Record: Meteorite Inserts from the Moon, Mars, and Space

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Watch by Les Ateliers Louis Moinet S.A. with 12 meteorite inserts in GWR. 18-carat rose-gold case, black wristband, oozes luxury. The video with 200k views, and 10k likes, showcasing the unique meteorite-themed. Online users submitted a video of an amazing timepiece with meteorite inserts. This sculpture was added to the Guinness World Records (GWR) list … Read more

Oxygen Made on Mars, Landing Plans in the Works

Oxygen Made on Mars, Landing Plans in the Works

Perseverance rover produces Mars oxygen for 2 years. Mars experiment hints at oxygen and rocket fuel production. Year-long Mars habitat simulation for scientists begins. Recently, scientists have been actively pursuing a significant breakthrough, as NASA’s Perseverance rover, equipped with an experimental instrument, achieved a remarkable feat by generating oxygen for two years from Mars’ carbon … Read more

Full ‘cold moon’ shines bright and eclipses Mars in rare event

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The full moon of December, also known as the “cold moon,” will shine brightly in the night sky. Around the moon’s fullness, a lunar occultation of Mars will occur. There will be views of this unique event throughout sections of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. This Wednesday, at its peak at 11:08 p.m. ET, the … Read more

Martian soil indicates long-term habitability

Martian soil indicates long-term habitability

Martian soil suggests that there are probably conditions on Mars. Scientists have detected clay-bearing strata in the northern Ladon Valles. Clay develops in neutral pH circumstances. Martian soil suggests that there are probably conditions on Mars that are good for life over a long period of time. Mars life? Ever? It’s one of the major … Read more

Canada looks to prosecute crimes on the Moon

Canada

Canadian MPs will vote on changing the country’s Criminal Code to allow for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon On Thursday. A 443-page budget implementation bill presented to Parliament this week explained the proposed modification to the law, which is expected to be passed. Ottawa has previously broadened its jurisdiction to include criminal … Read more

The first audio captured on Mars indicates two sound speeds

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According to experts, the first audio recordings from Mars depict a peaceful planet with periodic gusts of wind where two differing speeds of sound would have a weird delayed impact on hearing. After NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February of last year, its two microphones began recording, allowing scientists to hear for the … Read more

Profile: Mars explorer Zhang Rongqiao

Mars

BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) — When China’s Mars lander successfully touched down on the red planet on May 15, the control center in Beijing was full of cheers and applause. Zhang Rongqiao, however, was spotted shedding tears. Born in 1966, Zhang, the chief designer of China’s first Mars exploration mission, was included on Thursday in … Read more

China’s manned moon landing possible before 2030: scientist

China's manned moon landing possible before 2030: scientist

BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — It is “entirely possible” for China to perform a crewed lunar landing before 2030, said a senior Chinese scientist in deep-space exploration. “I personally think that as long as the technological research for manned moon landing continues, and as long as the country is determined (to achieve the goal), it … Read more

Ancient river delta bolsters search for signs of life on Mars

Ancient river delta bolsters search for signs of life on Mars

Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the Red Planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, a study said Thursday. In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta … Read more

China creates a model miniature helicopter for Mars missions

China creates a model miniature helicopter for Mars missions

China has created a prototype miniature helicopter for surveillance work on future Mars missions, as per its space science agency, following the historic landing of a robotic rover on Mars a few months ago. The prototype is alike in appearance to the robotic helicopter Ingenuity, created by NASA for its Perseverance mission this year, according … Read more

NASA believes that Mars rover is successful in obtaining a rock sample

NASA believes that Mars rover is successful in obtaining a rock sample

Perseverance rover sent by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has succeeded in obtaining a Martian rock sample after the second attempt, probably. During the first attempt by NASA, the rock was too fragile to withstand the drilling process. However, the data received on September 1 indicates the process of obtaining the sample was … Read more

China’s Mars rover accomplishes planned exploration tasks 

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BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has accomplished its exploration and detection tasks as planned, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Tuesday. As of August 15, 2021, Zhurong had worked on the surface of Mars for 90 Martian days, or about 92 days on Earth, with all scientific payloads having started to work … Read more

China’s Mars rover travels over 800 meters on red planet 

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BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 800 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.  China Zhurong has been traversing a complex terrain full of rocks, craters and dunes, and its rear hazard-avoidance camera … Read more

China’s Zhurong rover reaches complex terrain on Mars 

Zhurong

BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has reached an area with complex terrain, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration. After exploring a second dune, Zhurong moved southward and arrived at the area full of rocks, impact craters and dunes, said the administration. The ground control will complete … Read more

China releases first images taken by the Zhurong rover on Mars

China releases first images taken by the Zhurong rover on Mars

China’s space agency has published photos of Mars, taken by the Zhurong rover, showing parts of its lander and the red planet itself. On May 15th, the Tianwen-1 mission arrived at its destination, making China the second country after the United States to soft-land on Mars. A colored picture (above) taken by the navigation camera … Read more

China’s Zhurong Successfully Landed On Mars

China's Zhurong

China’s Zhurong has successfully landed on Mars on 15th May.

Chinese state media have confirmed that its first Mars Rover has landed on the red planet.

According to the details, it will explore the possibility of water and life beneath the surface of Mars.

Zhurong left the orbiter on the evening of May 14 to land on the surface of Mars, while 3 hours later the Lanning module separated from the orbiter and entered the Martian atmosphere.

Zhurong has six scientific instruments, including a high-resolution topography camera.

Earlier, the Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EMUS) took images of atomic hydrogen surrounding the red planet on April 24 and 25, a tweet by the Dubai Media Office said on Wednesday.

The tweet said that it is the first mission to any planet that has been able to take images from different angles in one day. The EMUS is one of three instruments to be carried onboard the Emirate Mars Mission.

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Watch: Newest Images of Mars by Emirates Mars Mission

Newest Images of Mars

The images of Mars were taken by an ultraviolet spectrometer which shows atomic hydrogen around the red planet. Dubai: The Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EMUS) took images of atomic hydrogen surrounding the red planet on April 24 and 25, a tweet by the Dubai Media Office said on Wednesday. التقط المقياس الطيفي للأشعة فوق البنفسجية، … Read more

NASA’s Mars helicopter travels faster on the third flight

NASA’s ingenuity helicopter has just completed a much more ambitious third flight. According to Space.com, (just over half the length of a football field) at a speed of about 4.5 MPH. It may not seem like much, but the ingenuity traveled only 13 feet at 1.1 MPH during the second flight – it was so … Read more

NASA’s mini-helicopter successfully airborne on mars

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The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) successfully flown a mini-helicopter over planet Mars. According to the reports, the drone named Ingenuity was airborne for less than a minute, but NASA is celebrating what they achieved first controlled flight by an aircraft on another world. The authorization came through the satellite at Mars which transmitted the … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter dropped on Mars surface

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The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)’s Perseverance rover, which is currently revolving around Mars has dropped off the mini helicopter Ingenuity. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tweeted Saturday that, “MarsHelicopter touchdown confirmed!” “Its 293 million miles (471 million kilometers) journey aboard @NASAPersevere ended with the final drop of 4 inches (10 centimeters) from the rover’s belly … Read more

Nasa’s Perseverance rover in ‘great shape’ after Mars landing

Nasa Perseverance rover Mars

NASA has successfully landed its Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. The American agency has landed the rover in a deep crater near the planet’s equator named Jezero. “The good news is the spacecraft, I think, is in great shape,” said Matt Wallace, the mission’s deputy project manager. According to the international news agency, … Read more

First Image Of Mars Taken By UAE’s ‘Hope’ Probe

Hope Probe

On Sunday, the national space agency said that UAE’s “Hope” probe has taken and sent the first photo of Mars, days after the spacecraft successfully enter its orbit.

According to the statement, the image “captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight.”

According to the details, the picture was captured from an altitude of 24,700 kilometers (15,300 miles) above the Martian surface on Wednesday.

UAE Prime Minister and Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum shared the colored photo of Mars on Twitter.

“The first picture of Mars captured by the first-ever Arab probe in history,” he wrote.

What Is The Hope Probe?

It is the first Arab interplanetary mission designed to orbit Mars and provide the first-ever complete image of the Martian atmosphere.

According to details, the hope probe will examine the dynamics of the Martian atmosphere. It will provide a complete view of the Mars atmosphere and will examine the queries such as oxygen gases into space.

Hope Probe is likely to collect more than 1,000 GB of new data which will be shared with more than 200 academic and scientific institutions around the world for free.

Scientists will be able to get a deep knowledge about the past and future of the earth as well as human settlement on Mars and other planetary objects by studying Martian weather thoroughly.

Mars rotates on its axis, completing one rotation, every 24.6 hours. Martian days are called Sols (short for the solar day). Hope Probe will orbit Mars for one whole Martian year that lasts 669.6 sols or equivalent to 687 Earth days or about two Earth years.

Emirati engineers who coordinated with American engineers and scientists at three US universities, including the University of Colorado, University of California Berkeley, and Arizona State University, created the Probe. According to Gulf News, here is the timeline of the development of Hope Probe.

Hope Probe Timeline

2014- Announcement of the mission
2015 – Preliminary design
2016 – Review of preliminary
2017 – Critical design review
2018 – Development and assembly
2019 – Testing
2020 – Launch and cruise
2021 – Mars orbit and science operations (until 2023)
2024 – Extended science operations

It is expected to begin transmitting more information back to Earth in September 2021, with the data available for scientists around the world to study.

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agriculture and future colonization of Mars

Mars

Colonies in Mars will require vast quantities of food in the future. However, bringing it from Earth would be costly and dangerous. To counter this problem, food should be grown in greenhouses specially constructed for this purpose. Such a system would require large quantities of topsoil as a growing medium for the plants. A series … Read more

astrologers discover asteroid worth $10 quintillion

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The 16 Psyche traveling between the planets Mars and Jupiter is one of the largest objects within the asteroid belt. Now the researchers who piloted the study estimated that the asteroid could be worth 10 quintillion dollars (the equivalent of a billion trillion), reported by CNN. It is believed by scientists that the asteroid is … Read more

Scientists Discover 3 Underground Lakes Of Water On Mars

Scientists Discover 3 Underground Lakes Of Water On Mars

More underwater reservoirs have been discovered on Mars, raising the possibility of some kind of life being discovered there. Researchers at the University of Roma Tre in Italy have discovered lakes of water beneath the surface of Mars’ South Ice Pole. It may be recalled that a lake hidden under the Martian polar ice of … Read more

China launches first mission Tianwen-1 to Mars

On Thursday, China launched its first mission to Mars. The mission, called Tianwen-1, was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southern province of Hainan on a Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket, reports state-run Xinhua news agency. The China National Space Administration said the spacecraft reached the intended Earth-Mars transfer orbit after flying … Read more

Hope Probe: UAE all set to send its first mission to Mars tonight

Hope Probe: UAE all set to send its first mission to Mars tonight

The UAE is all set to send its first mission to space. Mars Hope Probe will lift off atop a Japanese rocket at 00:51:27 UAE time Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre (TNSC) aboard Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket early July 15 morning. According to international news sources, it will be the first probe to get the … Read more