Mars Archives | Search Articles | Astronomy Trek Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:59:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 China’s Zhurong Mars Rover Takes a Drive on the Red Planet https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/china-zhurong-rover-on-mars/ Sun, 30 May 2021 11:45:03 +0000 https://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14465 China has become the first country after the United States to successfully land a rover on Mars. On May 14, 2021, China’s Zhurong rover rolled from its platform onto the red sand, with this historical ...

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]]> Why Did The Water On Mars Disappear? https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/mars-water/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:56:51 +0000 https://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14439 The red planet has been an object of fascination to us for thousands of years. Going from a god of war to a potential alien world with alien people and large canals to our current ...

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]]> Chinese Tianwen-1 Mars Mission On Track For Its July Launch https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/chinese-tianwen-1-mars-mission/ Tue, 05 May 2020 11:06:40 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14155 On April 24th, China has revealed the name and logo of its first independent interplanetary mission. This was done in honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite; the DFH-1 ...

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]]> Clay on Mars Finding Hints at Once Supporting Life https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/clay-on-mars-precursor-to-life/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/clay-on-mars-precursor-to-life/#respond Sat, 08 Jun 2019 12:38:59 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=13822 NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed the existence of clay on Mars, suggesting that there was once water on the Red Planet. In August 2012, Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars with one of its ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/clay-on-mars-precursor-to-life/feed/ 0 Latest Mars Colonization Plan May Be Waste of Time and Resources https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/latest-mars-colonization-plan-may-be-waste-of-time-and-resources/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/latest-mars-colonization-plan-may-be-waste-of-time-and-resources/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 09:20:40 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12781 The image above shows what may turn out to be a proposed semi-permanent base on Mars, but the notion that Mars could be colonized by humans is not new, and a plethora of plans on ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/latest-mars-colonization-plan-may-be-waste-of-time-and-resources/feed/ 0 Has Substantial Evidence Of Extant Microbial Life On Mars Been Found? https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/has-substantial-evidence-of-extant-microbial-life-on-mars-been-found/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/has-substantial-evidence-of-extant-microbial-life-on-mars-been-found/#respond Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:17:43 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12767 Although the consensus among planetary scientists and biologists is that the existence of life on Mars, both present and past has not been proven, one investigator, who was the lead scientist during the Viking 2 ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/has-substantial-evidence-of-extant-microbial-life-on-mars-been-found/feed/ 0 New InSight Spacecraft to Study Interior Structure of Mars https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/new-insight-spacecraft-to-study-interior-structure-of-mars/ Mon, 07 May 2018 15:33:10 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12637 The image above shows an artists’ impression of the deployed InSight spacecraft on the surface of Mars. The craft was launched from the west coast of the USA on May 5. 2018, after a two-year ...

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]]> Asteroids and Comets Are Showering Mars with Organic Material https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/asteroids-and-comets-are-showering-mars-with-organic-material/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/asteroids-and-comets-are-showering-mars-with-organic-material/#respond Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:58:22 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12570 The image above shows a fresh crater on Mars surrounded by a blanket of ejected material; as impacts on Mars go, this particular example is very young, having occurred sometime between January 2014 and August ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/asteroids-and-comets-are-showering-mars-with-organic-material/feed/ 0 Exploring the Possibility of Living on Mars https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/exploring-the-possibility-of-living-on-mars/ Thu, 11 May 2017 17:45:18 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=10727 The Red Planet has garnered a lot of attention in recent times, as scientists obsess about the possibility of discovering evidence of life on Mars. Added to this, NASA and SpaceX plan to make humans ...

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]]> Martian Life Hopes Raised After Liquid Water Find https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/martian-life-hopes-raised-after-liquid-water-find/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/martian-life-hopes-raised-after-liquid-water-find/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:16:20 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=6632 At the end of September, NASA announced the discovery of occasional streaks of flowing salty water on the slopes of mountainsides, canyons and craters on the southern hemisphere of Mars. A week later, and the ...

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