Mars

NASA Mars lander detects eerie rumbling sounds from below surface of Red Planet

NASA’s InSight lander has picked up a range of strange rumbling sounds from below the surface of Mars. The robotic spacecraft, which landed on the Red Planet last November, comes equipped with an extremely sensitive seismometer called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS). This device can pick up vibrations as subtle as a breeze, and was […]

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Hear the Sounds of Mars With Incredible Audio Samples From Insight

NASA’s InSight lander may be struggling with its stuck drill, but while it is stuck in place on the Martian surface it’s still collecting a ton of useful scientific information about the planet. This week NASA released a unique set of sounds collected by the lander from its time on the red planet. InSight’s first

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Elon Musk unveils new Mars rocket prototype, expects missions in months

(Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company’s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centerpiece vehicle of SpaceX’s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars. Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX’s rocket development site late on Saturday

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Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back

Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly. In a livestreamed speech from SpaceX‘s launch facility near the southern tip of Texas, Musk said Saturday that the space venture’s Starship is expected

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Nasa spots weird alien ‘dandelion clock’ crater on the surface of Mars

This striking black and white image was captured by Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Photo: Nasa) We don’t know whether alien life ever existed on Mars. But we know there’s some pretty strange stuff on the Red Planet regardless of whether extraterrestrial organisms ever lived there. Now Nasa has spotted a gigantic and very unusual natural

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NASA scientists baffled after detecting mysterious midnight pulses in Mars’ magnetic field

NASA’s InSight lander has detected strange magnetic pulses in Mars’ magnetic field – and scientists are unsure what’s causing them. The pulses start at around midnight local time, and can last as long as two hours, with wave periods of longer than 1 minute, according to scientists. They are strongest in the north direction and

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Snapshot of Mars’ frozen dunes will make you scream for ice cream

While these Mars dunes might look edible, they are not. ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS Mars is a planet of many textures. Images taken by orbiting spacecraft show us the depth and breadth of the red planet’s funky landscapes that evoke thoughts of shag carpets and spiders. So anybody up for some Mars ice cream? The European Space Agency

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Spin Me Right Round: Mars 2020 Rover Gets Its Balanced Checked

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover recently entered its final year of engineering before it is launched on its journey to the red planet, and it has been subjected to a battery of tests to ensure it’s ready to touch down. The latest test was a spin on a rotating table to check its weight distribution. In

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The safest bet for space settlers? It could be inside Mars’ moon Deimos – GeekWire

Jim Logan, a former NASA flight surgeon who is the co-founder of the Space Enterprise Institute, shows plan for putting a space settlement inside the Martian moon Deimos. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos, was named after the Greek god of terror — but the way former NASA flight

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