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The Zhurong rover’s front-facing wide-angle obstacle avoidance camera shows the ramps needed to reach the surface deployed as planned from the Chinese lander after touchdown 14 May. The two rods visible near the top of the image are part of a ground penetrating radar instrument. Image: CNSA China’s Zhurong Mars rover, still perched atop a rocket-powered lander following touchdown 14 May, has beamed back the first pictures from its Utopia Planitia landing site. A black-and-white photo from a...

After the moon, China lands on Mars and becomes the second country to successfully land a rover on the red planet. Excellent technical achievement. You

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Its absolutely spectacular, one of the largest geologic megastructures in the solar system. The question is, how did this trough system form? This is very cool and how it works is a bit subtle. They found that the troughs are not continuous, like the spiral arms of a hurricane. Instead, each arm is actually a series of small rectangular troughs laid out end-to-end, like sausage links, which they call cells. High-resolution images of the cells shows not just a lack of ice but also layering in t...

May 7, 2021 New research suggests that the Mars underground has the right ingredients for present-day microbial life. Planetary scientist Jesse Tarnas of Brown University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory led a new study on the possibility of microbial life beneath the surface of Mars. Here he is at the Kidd Creek Mine in Canada, sampling groundwater 1.5 miles (2.4 km) underground. Image via University of Toronto Stable Isotope Laboratory/ Jesse Tarnas. Has life ever existed on Mars? Coul...

Scientists reviewed images of the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet  Within the images they spotted evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity The team say this may be the youngest volcanic deposit documented on Mars Previously found volcanic activity ranged from billions to millions of years old  They say this evidence absolutely raises the possibility that there could still be volcanic activity on Mars and the chance the subsurface is habitable 

SunStar May 07, 2021 WELCOME to the space race! There is no denial that even as the world grapples with a pandemic, China and the US are advancing space exploration through different initiatives. Earlier this year, Mars became the site of competition. The planet is overcrowded with orbiters, namely Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Orbiter Mission, MAVEN, the Trace Gas Orbiter, the Tianwen-1 orbiter and the Hope Mars Mission. That does not include the tw...

By Juha Saarinen on May 3, 2021 12:26PM Million dollar joint European and Australian space agencies project. A second, 35-metre dish antenna will be built at the European Space Agencys (ESA) New Norcia station in Western Australia, with a budget of €45 million (A$70 million) for procurement, construction and building and service upgrades. ESA and the Australian Space Agency jointly announced the build of the new antenna, which weighs 620 tonnes. The n...