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Artist adds touch of moon (tree) dust for Apollo 14 50th anniversary

Chris Calle puts the finishing touches on "Touched by the Moon," his moon tree-dust infused tribute painting for the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 14 moon landing mission. (Image: © ...

Tianwen-1: China's first Mars mission

Tianwen-1 is China's first independent interplanetary mission, expected to complete its six-month journey to Mars on Feb. 10, 2021. The probe, a combination orbiter, lander and rover, launched from Earth aboard a Long March 5 rocket on July 23, 2020 in the ...

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UAE's Hope orbiter on course for arrival at Mars

Spaceflight Now

The first interplanetary probe from the United Arab Emirates is set to enter orbit around Mars on Tuesday, the first of three robotic missions taking aim on the Red Planet this month. The Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft ...

Mars madness! China, UAE to reach the Red Planet this week ahead of epic NASA rover landing

The Emirates Mars Mission, also known as Hope, is the Gulf state's first interplanetary mission. Launched in July 2020, the Hope orbiter is the first of three spacecraft currently homing in on Mars after journeys of more than 250 million miles (400 million ...

A new year begins on Mars as three space probes close in on the Red Planet

Happy (Martian) new year! A new year on Mars began yesterday Feb. 7, 2021 and these images show the planet shifting over into the new year. The ...

Martian moon Phobos could tell us what Mars was like in the past

CNN

CNN

(CNN) Mars has long been a point of fascination for scientists as they try to uncover the planet's past and determine if it ever supported life. It turns out that Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may hold a treasure trove of information about what Mars was like in ...

Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession

In this Monday, July 20, 2020 file photo, men watch the launch of the "Amal" or "Hope" space probe at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The orbiter is scheduled to reach Mars on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, followed less ...

Where should future astronauts land on Mars? Follow the water

Schlepping all that water to Mars would be costly and risky. That's why NASA has engaged scientists and engineers since 2015 to identify deposits of Martian water ice that could be within reach of astronauts on the planet's surface.

Tricky terrain: Helping to assure a safe rover landing

After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater Feb. 18, 2021, a rugged expanse chosen for its scientific research and sample collection possibilities. But the very features that make ...

'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist

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NPR

Decades into what is appropriately called "the climate crisis," humans are now facing down a planet that has been profoundly changed by our collective activities. In our struggle to find a response, and hopefully save ourselves, the relationship between humans ...