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FinancialBuzz.com’s latest The Buzz Show: Featuring Our Corporate News Recap on “LightPath Technologies, Inc Announced its Participation in the Mars Exploration Program” LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) surged over 13% in premarket trading after the company announced its Participation in the Mars Exploration Program. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently confirmed that optical elements manufactured by its subsidiary, ISP Optics, are supporting the Mars Curiosity Rover’...

 E-Mail The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II), a partnership between NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center and four universities--led by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Parks (UMD) Department of Astronomy--has received an extension of its cooperative agreement through March 2027 and been funded in the amount of $178 million. The extension will enable the center to continue current collaborations and expand on the partnerships succes...

Print NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of its shadow during the rotorcraft’s second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Advertisement Picture the scene: A small drone the size of a suitcase descends into a dark Martian crevasse—perhaps a lava tube that was formed billions of years ago by volcanic activity on the Red Planet. The drone illuminates its surroundings, recording views never seen before by human eyes as its suite of instrumen...

First in Flight: NASA Just Proved Flying on Mars Is Possible--Next Up Is the Solar System With Ingenuity’s five successful flights on the Red Planet, aviation may find unexpected footing in the future of space exploration Print NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of its shadow during the rotorcrafts second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Advertisement Picture the scene: A small drone the size of a suitcase descends into a dark Martian c...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and associate director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on April 29 about the scientific value of JPL’s Mars 2020 mission; JPL is managed by Caltech for NASA. Ehlmann, member of the science team and co-investigator on the rover’s Mastcam-Z and SHERLOC instrument teams, gave her testimony before the House Committee on Science...

Dr. Michael A. Meyer, Lead Scientist, Mars Exploration Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration  Dr. Bethany L. Ehlmann, Professor of Planetary Science and Associate Director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies, California Institute of Technology; President, The Planetary Society; Co-Investigator, Mars 2020 Perseverance mission Dr. Luther Beegle, Principal Investigator of the Mars Perseverance Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemical...

Why Mars? The fascination with exploring the red planet The mystique of Mars is one that humans can’t seem to resist. The red planet has easily captured our interest for centuries, heavily featured in science fiction books and films and the subject of robotic exploration since the 1960s. In February, three spacecraft arrived at Mars after departing from different launch points on Earth in July. These myriad missions seek to understand our planetary neighbor and unlock the secrets of its past ...

Hopes for water on Mars drives rovers and research forward share A new study conducted by the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) presented promising evidence that Mars contains a significant amount of water beneath its surface.    This study challenges the long-held hypothesis that Mars’ oceans escaped the atmosphere billions of years ago as a result of dust storms and the planet’s low gravity. Caltech’s paper arrives at an exciting time for the r...

New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars Water Source: NASA Mars The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planets water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. Billions of years ago, according to geological evidence, abundant water flowed across Mars and collected into pools, lakes, and deep oceans. New NASA-funded research shows a substantial quantity of its water - between 30 and 99% - is trapped within minerals in t...

New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars Water Global View of Mars From Viking Orbiter: This global view of Mars is composed of about 100 Viking Orbiter images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS. Download image › The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. Billions of years ago, according to geological evidence, abundant water flowed across Mars and collected into pools, lakes, and ...