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NASA’s Mars Lander Battled Martian Dust To Snap Its Final Selfie
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
Worry For NASA After Ingenuity Helicopter And Perseverance Rover Lose Contact
10 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
Most Powerful Camera Ever Sent To Another Planet Nailed This Mars Crater Shot [Video]
21 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The incredible HiRISE camera captured the coolest and most detailed shot of a Mars crater earlier this year.
All The Ways Living On Mars Could Kill You
28 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
With freezing temperatures, radiation, and a non-breathable atmosphere to consider, one does not simply pitch a tent on Mars and get on with life as we know it.
Here’s When Elon Musk Reckons We’ll Put A Human On Mars
18 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
SpaceX’s Starship, designed to take astronauts to the moon for NASA and eventually to Mars, hasn’t even made it into space yet.
Real Video Tour Of Mars Is Quite Something
23 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
NASA’s Curiosity rover is puttering around on Mars trying to find signs of life, and in the meantime, has provided material for a new video of a 360-degree panoramic tour.
These Odd Mars Photos Actually Have Straightforward Explanations
03 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s fun to speculate about the weird things that cameras have managed to capture on Mars and send back to Earth, but often there is a perfectly good, scientific explanation for it all.
The ‘Billionaire Space Race’ Is Going To Get Wild
13 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Three of the world’s wealthiest people are trying to top each other with the most ambitious private space expeditions.
Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Would Need To Overcome These Major Hurdles
26 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Travelling to Mars is an incredible feat, and while Elon Musk believes we can get there in the next decade, there are some serious obstacles to overcome.
Four Key Factors To Make Life On Mars Sustainable
18 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Human survival on another planet, especially one like Mars, depends on finding solutions to four key factors.
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Makes Mars History [Videos]
20 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Watch Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, make its first successful flight on the Red Planet.
What A Self-Sufficient City On Mars For 250 000 People Could Look Like [Video]
09 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A cliff with a view of the Red Planet and protection from radiation form part of the concept for a self-sufficient city on Mars called Nüwa.
They’ve Detected Some Rumbling From Deep Within Mars
07 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s been some mysterious rumbling coming from inside Mars. Scientists, with the help of the InSight Lander, are busy figuring out what it could mean.
Curiosity Mars Rover Knows How To Nail A Selfie [Video]
31 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Curiosity has been rolling around on Mars since 2012, and apart from a few bumps along the way, is still sending back incredible images of the Red Planet.
Perseverance’s First HD Pano Of Mars Is Not To Be Missed [Video]
08 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Perseverance and her ground team are going from strength to strength since her successful landing on Mars, with images flooding in from her advanced onboard cameras.
SpaceX Starship Sticks The Landing, Before Things Go Horribly Wrong [Video]
04 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
SpaceX took one giant leap towards the next Moon mission, but there’s still a sizeable wrinkle that they need to iron out.
NASA Hid A Secret Message In Perseverance’s Parachute
24 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
A few keen-eyed Redditors and Twitter users took a look at Perseverance’s parachute and picked up on something that most of us missed.
First-Ever Footage Of A Mars Landing [Videos]
23 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
For the first time in history, NASA has managed to capture actual footage of a rover landing on Mars, which includes sounds from the Red Planet.
More Pictures Of Mars As Perseverance Completes Successful Landing
19 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
After years of planning, and months of waiting for her to touch down on Mars, Perseverance is ready to start work on the Red Planet.
Greta Thunberg Made A Tourism Ad For Mars, But With A Twist [Video]
18 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Greta Thunberg and her team filmed a satirical tourism video that is worth remembering as the Perseverance rover heads for Mars.
NASA Prepares For “Seven Minutes Of Terror” Ahead Of Mars Landing [Video]
17 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
Monkeys Playing ‘Mind Pong’ – Elon Musk’s Latest Interview Was Entertaining [Video]
01 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Sure, Elon Musk could use an interview to have a calm and rational discussion about his companies, or he could muse about monkeys playing mind Pong.
SpaceX Landing Doesn’t Go Well – Explodes [Video]
10 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
We can all be relieved that Elon Musk’s Starship SN8 prototype wasn’t manned when it plummeted back to Earth.
What It Takes To Be An Astronaut On The First Mars Mission [Video]
25 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The astronauts chosen for the first mission to Mars will need more than just the technical know-how to complete the mission successfully.
Elon Musk Reckons Success Of Colonising Mars Depends On One Thing
21 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Musk recently spoke at the Mars Society’s annual conference, and said that projects to develop a Martian settlement were already underway.
SpaceX’s Starman Just Cruised Past Mars In A Tesla
09 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Tesla Roadster, with its mannequin ‘pilot’ Starman, made its first close approach to Mars.
The Southern African Connection With NASA’s Latest Mars Exploration [Video]
19 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is looking to make history by becoming the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another planet.
Here’s What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Looking For On Mars [Videos]
30 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Rover is loaded up on Atlas 5 and ready to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Destination: Mars.
Seven Months, 493 Million Kilometres – Historic Mars Mission Due To Lift Off Next Month
09 Jun 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On July 14, a robotic craft will leave a remote Japanese island and head for the Red Planet, with quite a journey to get there.
SA Teams Up With NASA To Aid Space Travel
29 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The South African National Space Agency has teamed up with NASA to host a Deep Space Ground Station.
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