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By Kathi O'Shea January 12, 2021 7:23 am KGMIAn illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021. (Illustration courtesy of NASA) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A WWU professor has been awarded a grant to support her continued involvement with the Mars Rover program. Dr. Melissa Rice leads the Mars Lab team of planetary geology researchers in the Science and Engineering school at Western. Now, Rice has been awarded a $144,982 grant from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labora...

Advertisement Two Danish architects have completed a two-month stay in their own collapsible shelter in a remote part of Greenland to stimulate harsh conditions on the Moon. Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, who are part of a design firm called SAGA Space Architects, camped out in the ‘Lunark’ shelter amid -28°F (-16°C) conditions on the island's north without any access to smartphones or the internet.  Lunark is a futuristic-looking habitat that folds down to a manageable size for easy transportation before being expanded in its final location. It is designed for takin...