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Rovers like the Zhurong do not carry the equipment they would need to transmit data directly to Earth because this would take up too much valuable space that is needed for space experiments.

The ESA has announced that it is planning to conduct a series of five communications tests between the Mars Express orbiter and China's Zhurong rover currently

Next month on Mars, the ESA and Chinas National Space Administration (CNSA) will try something thats never been attempted before in space: Sending data from a planet-based rover to an orbiter that it cant receive any messages from..

Of all the discoveries made on Mars, the detection of methane blowing in the air is probably the most compelling. HowStuffWorks investigates the Mars methane mystery.

Before Perseverance touched down in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February 2021, scientists’ understanding of crater was shaped by observations from

Space travel has allowed us to explore the mysteries of the cosmos. However, new mysteries about certain spacecraft, famous cosmonauts, and

Analysis of images of the failed British spacecraft Beagle 2, which was long believed destroyed after a crash landing on the surface of Mars in 2003, but was detected intact by a NASA orbiter in 2015, have suggested the mission came “agonisingly close” to success. Combining computer simulation with high-resolution imaging, a team from the […]

美国宇航局的好奇号探测器已经在盖尔火山口探索了9年，它一直在研究的沉积物看起来非常像一个古代湖泊留下的。但是现在香港大学的新研究提出了一个更为“干燥”的解释。盖尔火山口被选为好奇号的着陆点，是因为科学界怀疑它曾经是一个湖。在漫游车于2012年8月着陆后，它迅速开始工作，寻找这一假设的证据。

board=ScitechNews&u=fnews [ 1 ] 标  题: [KJPT]科学家称隐藏的火星“湖泊”实际上可能是冰冻粘土 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 29 22:20:02 2021, 美东) 据外媒CNET报道，在火星南极地区的冰盖下酝酿着一个谜团。过去几年的研究表明，那里可能藏有液态水的咸水湖，但一项新研究带来了不同的解释：这也许是冰冻粘土。 美国宇航局（NASA）领导的一项研究对湖泊的想法提出了质疑。7月中�...

There Could Be a New Explanation of Underground Lakes on Mars, But Its Not Water 30 JULY 2021 A network of strange features discovered underground at the south pole of Mars may not be lakes of liquid salty water after all. According to a new analysis, the strange shiny patches in radar data collected from the Mars Express orbiting probe could be resulting from frozen clay - specifically, hydrous aluminium silicates, or smectite minerals.   "To date, all previous papers were only able to sugg...