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Seven minutes of terror: Understanding the tech Perseverance will need to survive Mars' landing
•The Perseverance rover, about the size of a car, is the largest Mars payload ever — weighing a tonne on Earth.
UAE's Hope probe sends back first image of the Red Planet after entering the orbit
•It will orbit the Red Planet for at least one Martian year using three scientific instruments to monitor the Martian atmosphere.
UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home its first picture of Mars after successfully entering Red Planet's orbit
•The craft is expected to begin transmitting more information in September 2021, with the data available for scientists around the world to study
Scientists detect water vapour escaping high into the atmosphere from Mars
•They detected the vapour by analysing light passing through the Martian atmosphere using an instrument called the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery.
Mars 'wobbles' as it spins, the exact cause may take 'years of high quality data' to uncover
Trendingdesk •The planet's poles wander up to 10 centimetres from the average axis of rotation, in a cycle that repeats every 207 days.
COVID-19 memorial, 11 million names and other things that will ride aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover
Trendingdesk •NASA says the 'extra' baggage the rover is carrying is part of a tradition called 'festooning' that goes back to the early space age.
Most habitable region for life would have been several miles below Martian surface: Scientists
Trendingdesk •Scientists examined Mars datasets to see if heating via geothermal heat would have been possible in that area and found that conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been present on ancient Mars
Curiosity showed that Mars experienced a megaflood which leads us to believe life might've existed on the planet
Trendingdesk •A meteor struck Mars and caused mega ripples were about 9.1 meters high and spaced about 137.1 meters apart which is similar to those on Eearth.
Mars shines extra bright on 13 Oct as it enters 'opposition', to remain bright for weeks
Trendingdesk •Mars in opposition means it will be visible all night, starting in the east after sunset, before disappearing into the western horizon around sunrise.
NASA conducts test drive on Mars-bound Perseverance rover’s twin — Optimism — on Earth
Trendingdesk •Optimism will share space in the Mars Yard with Maggie, the engineering model that stands in for NASA's Curiosity rover.