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Museum of Flight Space Mavens Offer Insights from Earth to Mars Museum of Flight Space Mavens Offer Insights from Earth to Mars An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Photo NASA. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet Feb. 18, and the Museum of Flight is hosting two live, online panel programs to prep and cover the landing with NASA JPL Mars mission engineers. The preview discussion on Feb. 11 includes Mallory Lefland, JPL Flight Controller, who will be on duty with NASA Mission Control for the rover landing; and on landing day, Feb. 18, the p...

Out of this world: Why the UAE’s mission to Mars is a geopolitical triumph Kim Sengupta After a voyage of seven months and 300 million miles, the spacecraft Hope has reached its destination, from where it will offer an insight into what would be needed to support life on Mars and provide vital information about the current state of the Red Planet.  During its 687 days in orbit, a year in Martian terms, the mission from the UAE will chart the changing atmosphere and weather patterns through four seasons, along with levels of hydrogen and oxygen, and send back a steady strea...

Emirates Mars Mission’s Hope Probe: All you need to know The metal piece of the probe is decorated with the phrase ‘The power of hope shortens the distance between earth and sky’, the UAE flag and the slogan ‘The impossible is possible’ by Zainab Mansoor February 3, 2021 On July 20, 2020, the UAE’s – and the Arab World’s – first mission to Mars, the Hope Probe lifted off from the Tanegashima Island in Japan on a 493.5 million km long journey. The culmination of a six-year effort of 200 Emirati engineers and researchers – who constructed the Arab world’s fi...

To Infinity and Beyond, or at Least to Mars Mars is the next true destination for humans in space exploration. The Perseverance rover, pictured on Mars in a NASA illustration, is due to arrive there in February aboard a rocket launched last July. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/REUTERS Jan. 8, 2021 1:24 pm ET David W. Brown’s “Mars or Bust” (Review, Dec. 19) is spot on: Mars is the next true destination for humans in space exploration. Over the past 20 years NASA’s Mars Exploration Program has changed our understanding of the planet’s extensive rivers and ...