Mars, SpaceX and Starship
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SpaceX successfully launched the 10th test flight of its Starship rocket on Tuesday night from Starbase in South Texas.
Could humans be heading to Mars in the 2030s? Here's how Elon Musk and SpaceX plan to launch Starship on a mission to colonize the Red Planet.
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IFLScience on MSNFinally, A Successful Starship Launch – What This Means For The Moon Landings
Starship’s 10th test flight has deployed simulated satellites for the first time, and splashed down on target in the Indian Ocean, achieving SpaceX’s primary objectives after months of failed attempts,
NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during medieval times. The martian rock, captured by Perseverance’s primary camera on Aug. 5, is pointed at the top and dome-shaped on top of a flared brim. It has a rough, textured surface covered in small bumps.
AeroVironment unveils Skyfall, a Mars mission with six autonomous helicopters to explore and prepare for future crewed landings.
For the study, the researchers used images from the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to determine candidate landing sites for future human missions to the Red Planet. In the end, the researchers identified sites in the northern latitudes of Mars with near-surface water ice that future human missions could use for in situ ...
In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us. Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s.