The first video captured the landing of the rover, from the opening of the parachute till the touchdown in the Utopia Planitia plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars on May 15. The second, black and white footage was made by the Zhurong on the surface and featured the first …
Read More »‘Flat and rocky’ surface of Mars seen in high-resolution images released by China as part of its Martian mission (PHOTOS)
A series of high-resolution images published on the China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) website on Friday show the terrain of the red planet in color (and it does look red), as well as the landing platform and the Zhurong rover, the CNSA said. © China National Space Administration The picture …
Read More »NASA’s Mars helicopter makes first one-way flight to ‘new home’ on Martian surface
Making a journey from the Wright Brothers Field to its new destination on Friday, the four-pound rotocopter flew a whopping 423 feet (129 meters), also hitting a record altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) while capturing several high-resolution photos in the process. All in all, the voyage took about a …
Read More »NASA shares more incredible PHOTOS from Martian surface as Perseverance mission begins in earnest
The six-wheeled robot beamed back several high-resolution images taken during the rover’s landing. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also captured the spacecraft sailing into the landing site within the Jezero Crater, with parachute in tow. © NASA/ JPL Caltech The snapshots were sent via several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet but …
Read More »‘Martian landscape’: Sahara sand covers Alpine snow as early desert wind from Africa turns Europe orange (PHOTOS)
While pictures of the surreal scenes flooded social media on Saturday, the French are actually quite used to the annual phenomenon: the sandy wind is “not extremely rare,” but it is “exceptional” that it is so early in the year, Le Parisien wrote. Sirocco normally arrives in April, and leads …
Read More »SpaceX experienced a “Martian ship”
Starhopper finished tied jump. Company SpaceX performed the first “prywatny” the launch of the test sample Starship missiles, which received the name Starhopper. As expected, in the future test missile will make “jumping” to a height of 5 kilometers. As reports “League. News” trial version Starship called Starhopper, turned on …
Read More »Solved the mystery of the appearance of the Martian asteroids-the Trojans
British astronomers were able to reveal this mysteryThe famous Martian asteroids-the Trojans, “chasing” Mars got its current orbit due to the unusual interaction of light with matter is the progenitor of these heavenly stones, said the researchers. “Martian Trojans did not arise as a result of the collision of an …
Read More »Scientists have suggested that could trigger Martian war
Scientists have found that will cause the war on Mars Scientists have suggested that the Martian war in the future will provoke the division of minerals. Assumptions that in the coming years on the Red planet landed the first colonists, the discussion is not only astronomers, but also politicians and …
Read More »NASA revealed the unique Martian clouds
Unusual photos became publicly available only recently. The American space Agency NASA showed an animation of the movement of the clouds on Mars, images for which the Curiosity Rover made in July 2017. According to the Agency, it is the clearly visible clouds for all time the mission of the …
Read More »NASA released the “Martian falls”
Space Agency NASA published the mysterious photo of Mars. One of the satellites was able to capture on my camera the seismic activity on the planet. Experts from NASA released photos of lava on Mars by comparing them to earthly Niagara falls. Recently the Mars reconnaissance satellite made a number …
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