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Space 11 February 2021 NASA’s latest Mars rover is approaching its final descent to the surface. Perseverance, the largest vehicle ever to attempt to land on the Red Planet, is due to touch down on 18 February. Landing on Mars is difficult: about 60 per cent of the missions that have tried it to date have failed. Perseverance will have a similar landing sequence to the Curiosity rover, which arrived successfully in 2012, with a heat shield and parachute slowing it down from about 20,000 kilometres per hour t...

United Arab Emirates' Hope Probe reaches Mars on mission to test Martian atmosphere, climate Posted WedWednesday 10 updated WedWednesday 10 FebFebruary 2021 at 1:37am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Share Print text only Cancel The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars has reached the Red Planet and entered orbit after a seven-month and 494-million-kilometre journey. Key points: To enter Mars' orbit, the probe needed to burn around half its 800 kilograms of onboard fuel The attempt had a 50 per cent chance of fail...

After seven months, the Hope craft launched by the United Arab Emirates has successfully entered the orbit of Mars. Next up are China's Tianwen-1 and the US's Mars 2020. Here's what happens next.

Astrobiologist Amy Williams’ mind is on Mars. Williams, a University of Florida geology professor, recently joined her second Mars mission: After serving on the Curiosity rover team since 2009, she’s now a participating scientist on the Perseverance rover, which touches down on the red planet on Feb. 18. “Serving on any NASA mission is the greatest experience I could possibly dream of,” she said.  Her proposal to search for signs of ancient life on Mars was one of 13 selected by NASA from over a hundred submissions.  Geology professor Dr. Amy Williams joined the Curiosity mission ...

URL copied NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars next month NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is set to complete a 470.8-million-kilometre next month as it is scheduled to land on Mars on February 18. Launched on July 30 last year, the rover is currently closing that distance at 2.5 kilometres per second, NASA said. Once at the top of the Red Planet's atmosphere, an action-packed seven minutes of descent awaits -- complete with temperatures equivalent to the surface of the Sun, a supersonic parachute inflation, and the first ever autonomous guided landing on Mars. Only...