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Odd Martian meteorites traced back to largest volcanic structure in the solar system

House and Senate proposals for NASA’s fiscal year 2022 science budget mostly track the administration’s request, providing particularly significant funding increases for the Planetary Science and Earth Science Divisions. Appropriators have sent mixed signals about the fate of the airborne SOFIA telescope, which NASA has proposed to terminate.

Six. This is the number of rovers presently deployed by humanity on the surface of the Red Planet, five of them wearing the American flag, and the sixth, the Chinese one. They are accompanied by around 20 landers of different shapes and sizes, and a small number of orbital hardware. And Mars is about to get even more crowded.

Professor Brian Cox, particle physicist and the Royal Society Professor of Public Engagement in Science, tells us about his new documentary, Universe.

The mission will require the development of multiple aircraft with capabilities of re-launching in the Martian atmosphere and then surviving an over 300 million kilometres long journey.

NASA assigned Perseverance rover to collect a sample from one of the most ancient layers of exposed bedrock from the Jazero Crater on Mars. After a failed attempt, the car-sized rover finally got what it was after, and now NASA, together with the European Space Agency, plans to return the Martian sample to Earth.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars for just about eight months now, and in that time, it has taken samples of Martian rock to determine

NASA’s much-vaunted Perseverance rover landed on Mars’ Jezero crater in February and since then it has brought humanity closer to the red planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover team has confirmed that the red planet's Jezero Crater was once the site of a delta-lake system. 

First images from Perseverance rover show existence of ancient river delta on Mars - The findings could help Perseverance achieve its scientific missions of finding signs of bygone life and collecting samples for future return to Earth