Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.
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NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface than they did when the movie was released.
AI poses a variety of ethical conundrums, but the NASA teams working on Mars rovers exemplify an ethic of care and human-robot teamwork that could act as a blueprint for AI’s future.
Discarded pieces of landing gear, crashed spacecraft and wear and tear have produced a lot of debris that is now scattered around the Martian surface.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and one of our closest neighbors in space. But it’s not a very welcoming place for an Earthling to visit.
China has fast-tracked its way onto the red planet, almost matching NASA’s capability in a fraction of the time. Its Zhurong rover will become the first to measure Mars’s magnetic field.
NASA’s successful Mars landing will reveal yet more secrets from the red planet. But there is much we already know from Martian fragments that found their way to Earth.
There are some great opportunities to see the planet travelling across the night skies.
Of the three probes to reach Mars this month, only two will land. But they will add to our growing knowledge of the red planet, and the search for evidence of life.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has arrived and landed the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. The rover’s goal is to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth in the future.
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Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Florida
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Associate Dean of Innovation and Engagement, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Professor of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
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Professor in Geology, University of Otago
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PhD Candidate in Space History, UCL
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Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Florida
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Co-Director Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
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Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Scientist and Adjunct Associate, Dartmouth College
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Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA