China becomes second nation to successfully land spacecraft on Mars

China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, making it the second nation to successfully land on Mars after the Tianwen-1 touched down on the Red Planet three months after NASA’s latest rover. China’s state media reported that the spacecraft touched down at what was 7.18pm Eastern time in the United … Read more

China’s Zhurong rover will land on Mars ‘in the next five days’

China is set to land its Zhurong rover, currently strapped to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, on Mars ‘in the next five days ‘as part of the country’s first interplanetary mission, Beijing’s space agency said Friday.  Zhurong, named after an ancient god of fire, is tucked in the belly of China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft that entered parking orbit around Mars in … Read more

China’s Zhurong rover will land on Mars TONIGHT

China is set to land its Zhurong rover, currently strapped to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, on Mars tonight as part of the country’s first interplanetary mission. Officials revealed Thursday that the capsule will embark on its ‘seven minutes of terror’ around 19:11 ET (00:11 BST), enduring the same tumultuous conditions NASA’s Perseverance rover went through to land … Read more

China’s Zhurong rover will land on Mars TOMORROW and endure ‘seven minutes of terror’

China is set to land its Zhurong rover on Mars on Friday as part of the country’s first interplanetary mission. Officials revealed Thursday that the capsule will embark on its ‘seven minutes of terror’ around 7:11pm ET, which is the same tumultuous conditions endured by NASA’s Perseverance rover earlier this year. Zhurong, named after an … Read more

Organisms found in NASA’s clean rooms may have already contaminated Mars, scientist warns

NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests that although NASA takes extreme measures to clean spacecraft and … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes FIFTH flight reaching record 33-foot altitude

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes FIFTH flight reaching record 33-foot altitude and traveling to new ‘airfield’ 423 feet away NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet on Friday Set a new record of 33 feet in altitude and traveled 423 feet to a new airfield Control room at JPL broke out … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes FIFTH flight reaching record 33-foot altitude

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes FIFTH flight reaching record 33-foot altitude and traveling to new ‘airfield’ 423 feet away NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet on Friday Set a new record of 33 feet in altitude and traveled 423 feet to a new airfield Control room at JPL broke out … Read more

Listen to Ingenuity fly on Mars! NASA releases first audio of the hum of the helicopter’s rotors

The world has seen a number of videos showing NASA’s Ingenuity flying above the surface of Mars, but now, for the first time, we can hear the humming of its tiny rotors spinning. The low hum from blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely audible and almost sounds like a low-pitched, … Read more

Listen to Ingenuity fly on Mars! NASA releases first audio of the hum of the helicopter’s rotors

The world has seen a number of videos showing NASA’s Ingenuity flying above the surface of Mars, but now, for the first time, we can hear the humming of its tiny rotors spinning. The low hum from blades spinning at more than 2,500 revolutions per minute is barely audible and almost sounds like a low-pitched, … Read more