MARS - SINO DAILY

Anxious wait for news of Mars lander's fate

Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)

Ground controllers waited anxiously for news Thursday on the status of a tiny European craft which touched down on Mars as part of a daring quest for life on th...

Scientists simulate a space mission in Mars-analogue Utah desert

Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)

A barren, rocky desert landscape and not a single soul around - to come as close as possible to the inhospitable conditions on the Red Planet, scientists of the...

Rover Conducting Science Investigations at 'Spirit Mount'

Oct 19, 2016 (JPL)

Opportunity is located at the feature called 'Spirit Mount' on the rim of Endeavour Crater, the first science waypoint of the 10th extended mission. The rover i...

Robot explorers headed for Mars quest: ESA

Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)

Europe will send a tiny lander on a scorching, supersonic tumble to Mars on Wednesday and place a gas-sniffing probe in orbit around the Red Planet in a daring ...

Euro-Russian craft enters Mars orbit, but lander's fate unknown

Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)

Europe and Russia celebrated placing a robot explorer into Mars orbit on Wednesday, but ground controllers faced an anxious night searching for the tiny lander ...

NASA's MAVEN Mission Gives Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars

Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)

New global images of Mars from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously in...

What! - Go To Mars?

Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)

Just last week President Obama again announced his ambitious goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. His plan calls for a safe return of astronauts after visi...

Robot explorers all set for Mars tryst: ESA

Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)

Europe was poised Tuesday to place a paddling pool-sized lander on Mars and a gas-sniffing craft in its orbit as part of a mission with Russia to scour the Red ...

Ready for the Red Planet

Oct 18, 2016 (ESA)

Next week, ESA's ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars' gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for...

Mars explorer duo on course: ESA

Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)

European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on t...

European lander starts 3-day descent to Mars surface: ESA

Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)

A European lander started a three-day, million-kilometre (621,000-mile) descent to Mars on Sunday, quitting its mothership to test technology for a daring missi...

Europe's Mars orbiter not sending status data: ESA

Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)

Ground controllers reported a break Sunday in status data from a European-Russian Mars orbiter after it released a tiny lander on a three-day trek to the Red Pl...

How this Martian moon became the 'Death Star'

Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, has captured public imagination and been shrouded in mystery for decades. But numerical simulations recently conducted at Lawrence L...

Europe heads for Mars in search of life

Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)

Thirteen years after its first, failed attempt to place a rover on Mars, Europe reaches a crucial stage Sunday in a fresh quest to scour the Red Planet for sign...

Buried glaciers on Mars

Oct 14, 2016 (ESA)

This jumble of eroded blocks lies along the distinctive boundary between the Red Planet's southern highlands and the northern lowlands, with remnants of ancient...

DREAMS of Mars: Europe's ExoMars Mission Arrives in the Middle of Dust Season

Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)

The joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission is knocking on Martian door to answer important astrobiological questions. While the mission's Schiaparelli module ...

Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars

Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)

Geomorphologists who study Earth's surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbu...

How Mars' moon Phobos came to look like the Death Star

Oct 12, 2016 (UPI)

Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is well known for its resemblance to the Death Star, the mobile space station and planet-destroying weapon from Star Wars. Now, scie...

US relies on industry help to make 'giant leap' to Mars

Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the nation is relying on private industry to find ways to make the "giant leap" to Mars, with human missions on the horiz...

Schiaparelli readied for Mars landing

Oct 10, 2016 (ESA)

This week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander's descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA's ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red P...