One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort of high speed winds we might experience on Earth carry far less of an impact ...

It’s all about celestial mechanics. Illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover studying a Mars rock outcrop (not to scale). ... [+] Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August 2020 ...

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly approaching, the hype train for the next big mission to the Red Planet is really building up steam. And with good ...

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The Mars Perseverance will also capture images of the Ingenuity in flight. The Ingenuity left Earth on July 30, 2020, attached to the belly of the Mars Perseverance rover and landed on Mars on ...

And if all goes well, the United Arab Emirates will join that list in the summer of 2020 when its Hope spacecraft heads to the red planet. While there are no plans yet to send humans to Mars ...

Michael Persaud Now that the Mars 2020 mission has successfully begun ... as she has ambitions of taking flight—the first attempt of powered, controlled flight on another planet, to be specific.