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Tag Archives: M2020
NASA Mars Report, March 30, 2018
NASA’s InSight arrives at Vandenberg AFB and readies for launch, Opportunity uses its abrasion tool for the first time in 300 sols, and Curiosity celebrates 2,000 Martian days on the Red Planet. For more about all of NASA’s Mars missions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, M2020, MarCO, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Cube One, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Science Laboratory, MER, MSL, NASA, Opportunity
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2020 rover at key manufacturing milestone
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will involve electrical integration of flight hardware into the … Continue reading
NASA Mars Report, February 26, 2018
NASA’s Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars, and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays. [More at link]
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Tagged Curiosity, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, M2020, MarCO, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Cube One, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Science Laboratory, MER, MSL, NASA, Opportunity
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Sending a piece of Mars home
A chunk of Mars will soon be returning home. A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will be carried on board NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission, now being built at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in … Continue reading
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Tagged M2020, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars meteorites, NASA, SaU008, Sayh al Uhaymir 008, Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, SHERLOC
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HiRISE: Mars 2020 candidate landing site in northeast Syrtis Major
A candidate 2020 mission landing site in the northeast region of Syrtis Major. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, landing sites, M2020, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, NE Syrtis Major, Syrtis Major, University of Arizona
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Assembly begins on next Mars rover mission
In just a few years, NASA’s next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars rover. But there’s no doubt it’s a souped-up science machine: … Continue reading
Mars 2020: Supersonic parachute deployment test
Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the spacecraft down as it enters the Martian … Continue reading
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Tagged Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment, ASPIRE, landing systems, M2020, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover
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HiRISE: Candidate landing site for 2020 mission
Candidate landing site for 2020 mission in northeast Syrtis Major region. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, landing sites, M2020, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, NE Syrtis Major, Syrtis Major, University of Arizona
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Next Mars rover will have 23 eyes
When NASA’s Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA’s first rover, Sojourner. Since then, camera technology has taken a quantum leap. Photo sensors … Continue reading
Vanadium: key element in search for Mars biosignatures?
The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won’t play out like a Hollywood movie starring little green men. Rather, many scientists agree if there was life on the Red Planet, it probably will present itself as fossilized bacteria. To … Continue reading
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Tagged biosignatures, life, M2020, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, microfossils, vanadium
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