Mars

NASA rover detects electrical discharges - 'mini-lightning' - on Mars

The six-wheeled rover, exploring Mars since 2021 at a locale called Jezero Crater in its northern hemisphere, picked up these electrical discharges in audio and electromagnetic recordings.

 New information regarded as strong evidence Mars had ‘vacation beaches’. Illustration.
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Israelis swim in the "Disappearing Lake" in Timna Park, in the southern Israeli desert, on September 9, 2017

Israeli desert microorganisms survive harsh climate, offer clues to life on Mars

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Palestinian engineer behind helicopter flight on Mars

The project started in 2014 with different teams in different fields, Elbasyouni said, adding he worked with other NASA engineers as chief engineer for more than four years

ngenuity Mars Helicopter flies over Mars in an undated illustration provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout

NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover.

Fans and deltas formed by water and sediment are seen in the Jezero Crater on Mars

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter makes its first flight - Watch

The robot rotorcraft was carried to the red planet strapped to the belly of NASA's Mars rover Perseverance, a mobile astrobiology lab that touched down in February.

ngenuity Mars Helicopter flies over Mars in an undated illustration provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout

UAE to launch moon mission in 2022, alongside Japan's ispace

The team designing the rover is working out of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai.

An attendee poses as he arrives to an event to mark Hope Probe's entering the orbit of Mars, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 9, 2021.

Can spaceflights shrink an astronaut's heart? - study

Basing their study on retired astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent almost a year on the International Speace Station (ISS), the scientists found that his heart physically shrank despite exercising.

Assembly of the International Space Station

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter to fly on Mars in April

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is set to attempt the first powered flight on another planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover descends to touch down on Mars in a still image from a video camera aboard the descent stage taken February 18, 2021.

NASA's Perseverance records sound of its first space laser instrument

Space lasers have been making headlines recently, when last January it was reported that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene made a statement blaming deadly forest fires on "Jewish space lasers."

Perseverance

Mars on Earth: Turkish lake may hold clues to ancient life on planet

A team of American and Turkish planetary scientists carried out research in 2019 on the shorelines of the lake, known as Turkey's Maldives because of its azure water and white shores.

Get a little distance by pretending for a minute that it's Mars and not our precious Earth where this is taking place.

UAE tells Israeli conference it uses AI for space travel

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Presentation of the UAE project 'Mars 2117'

'Something we've never seen' - Mars rover beams back selfie

The image was taken at the very end of the so-called "seven-minutes-of-terror" descent sequence.

NASA's Perseverance rover descends to touch down on Mars in a still image from a video camera aboard the descent stage taken February 18, 2021.