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The White House's 2023 federal budget request allocates no money to NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747 jet equipped with a telescope.
The NASA-ESA campaign to haul Mars samples back to Earth will require two Red Planet landers instead of one. The change will delay the arrival of samples here by two years, to no earlier than 2033.
Linking Glaciers on Earth to the Climate on Mars April 30, 2021• Physics 14, 62 Geophysicist Jack Holt explains how Earth’s debris-covered glaciers can teach us about the climate history of Mars. Jack Holt × As a student, Jack Holt had three loves: geology, exploring remote mountain regions, and aviation. Now, as a geophysicist at the University of Arizona, he’s merged those loves into his academic pursuits. Holt has tracked the history of Earth’s magnetic field, which required visits to Death Valley in California, Baja California in Mexico, and the Big Island, Hawaii, and he ...
NASA working on possible robotic Mars ice mapping mission Shane McGlaun - Feb 8, 2021, 5:56am CST NASA and a trio of international partners have signed a statement of intent to advance a possible robotic Mars ice mapping mission. The goal of the mission is to help identify abundant and accessible ice and future candidate landing sites on Mars. The agencies are working together on an agreement to establish a joint concept team to assess mission potential and partnership opportunities. Under the statement, which was signed by NASA, the Italian Space Agency, the Canadian Space...
Share Washington: NASA, in collaboration with three international partners, is planning to launch a robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help the agency identify potential science objectives for initial human missions to Mars. It could help identify abundant, accessible ice for future candidate landing sites on the Red Planet. The agencies have agreed to establish a joint concept team to assess mission potential, as well as partnership opportunities, NASA said on Wednesday. Under the statement of intent that they have signed, NASA, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Canadian Space...