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Marswatch

29 January 2022

  • A mock-up of the Orion space capsule at Nasa in Houston which will carry four astronauts in deep space missions to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.

    Nasa asks public to help solve waste recycling for Mars trip

    Entrants asked to tackle trash, faecal matter, foam packaging and exhaled carbon dioxide by 15 March

9 September 2021

  • Nasa image shows the hole drilled by the Perseverance rover during its second sample collection.

    Nasa’s Perseverance rover collects first Mars rock sample

    Rock core, along with other samples, could one day be destined to Earth for analysis

29 July 2021

  • Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure

    Nasa’s InSight lander reveals internal structure of Mars

    Analysis of marsquakes captured since probe landed in 2018 shows the Martian crust is between 12 and 23 miles thick

20 May 2021

  • China’s Zhurong rover lands on Mars.

    Europe and Russia plan to put spacecraft on surface of Mars

    Joint mission next year will try to replicate China’s recent success of landing robotic craft on planet

25 March 2021

  • Illustration depicting the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

    Marswatch: high hopes for first powered controlled flight on another planet

    Mars mission’s next major milestone will be deployment of Ingenuity, a small helicopter
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