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Smart policy moves can help India circumvent budget constraints, experts say

According to a paper published this week in the journal "Earth and Planetary Science Letters," the Earth is cooling quicker than previously anticipated, which might have severe consequences for life on the planet.

During this very eventful year, two nations joined the Mars club, a robot plied Red Planet skies for the first time ever and humanity kicked off an ambitious interplanetary sample-return campaign.

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At the age of 38, she is also one of the youngest principal investigators of any NASA mission.

UC Berkeley researcher Shannon Curry was appointed as the principal investigator of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, mission at NASA.

On July 30th 2020, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter were launched into space. They arrived at Mars on February 18th 2021 to search for evidence of past life and find signs of habitable areas. by Dr David Maddison

Mars Exploration Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. Facts There have been nine successful US Mars landings: Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976), Pathfinder (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (both 2004), Phoenix (2008), Curiosity (2012), InSight (2018) and Perseverance (2021). The only other country to land a spacecraft on Mars was the...

Mars Exploration Fast Facts Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. Facts There have been nine successful US Mars landings: Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976), Pathfinder (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (both 2004), Phoenix (2008), Curiosity (2012), InSight (2018) and Perseverance (2021). The only other country to land a spacecraft on Mars was the Soviet Union in 1971 and 1973. The...

May 26, 2021 at 11:02 am Many planets in the Solar System have atmospheres, and their clouds bring much joy to the scientists studying them, including Mars. Advertisement One Martian cloud in particular has caught the attention of astronomer Jorge Hernández-Bernal and his team: a previously unnoticed, extremely long cloud that forms downwind of the Arsia Mons volcano. This ‘Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud’ (AMEC) appears to develop every morning during the spring and summer seasons. The Arsia...