We’re just a day away from Nasa’s historic Perseverance rover trundling out from its spacecraft to begin its mission to hunt for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. In an exclusive interview we speak to mobility system engineer and rover planner for the mission Tyler Del Sesto, who works on the team at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Perseverance will be the second rover operational on Mars, and there have been some.
China's Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered a Martian orbit on Wednesday night after a lengthy interplanetary voyage, becoming the first Chinese spacecraft to reach the red planet.
Two first-timer Mars missions slipped flawlessly into orbit this week Scott Sutherland
After travelling for millions of kilometres through interplanetary space, two missions from first-time Mars explorers have arrived at their destination!
Mars active robot population is getting a substantial boost in 2021. The Curiosity rover is still exploring Gale Crater and Mount Sharp, and the InSight lander continues to listen for marsquakes, with a new mission extension until the end of 2022. In orbit, there s NASA s Mars Odyssey, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, plus Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter from the ESA, and the Mars Orbiter Mission from India s ISRO.
By CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — China’s Tianwen-1 mission successfully reached Mars orbit on Wednesday after a nearly 7-month journey from Earth, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua confirmed. China’s arrival on the Red Planet comes a day after the United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe reached Mars’ orbit. It also comes approximately a week [.]