After spending four years on the surface of the Red planet, NASA’s Mars insight lander is about to turn off. The amount of dust covering the lander’s solar panels has been causing its power levels to decrease for the past several months. Although NASA previously warned that InSight was not responding properly as it couldn’t respond to signals from Earth.
Mars or “The Red Planet” has always caught the attention of space explorers. Humans have been thinking of colonizing and building permanent settlements on Mars for decades. The crucial part comes when the Martian surface emerges as a topic of discussion. The planet is barren and inhospitable due to its climate, but the new research outlines a plan to build forests on Mars.
On Friday, November 25, 2022, NASA Artemis I officially traveled further than any spacecraft that will carry humans by entering a distant retrograde orbit.
China is advancing forward like no other country on the planet. The aim of it is to set up lunar research centers by 2028. China will establish a lunar research station, eight years earlier than anticipated. The landing mission included running scientific tests like 3D printing lunar dust, followed by others in near future.
The world’s most powerful rocket, Falcon Heavy has returned to flight after 3 years. The rocket will take off from a space center in Florida, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket will carry space satellites for the US military forecasting missions.
According to a new study, published in the Nature Astronomy this week stated that ancient life on Mars destroyed the planet.
As NASA’s Artemis 1 mission keeps getting delayed, SpaceX plans to launch a separate mission apart from NASA to the moon a few days apart from the next planned Artemis launch.
When NASA launches SpaceX Crew-5, it will make history as the first Russian cosmonaut will go into space using the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
According to the scientist working on the Perseverance mission, the rover has recently collected rocks on the surface of Mars that are “amazing” and will lead us to one day, discover life on Mars.
As NASA, struggles with the Artemis launches which were supposed to make history over 2 weeks ago, SpaceX continues to rewrite history books with its 52nd launch this week marking 52 launches in 52 weeks.
Finally, NASA has come up with the news which could possibly be a stepping stone for human life on Mars. A device called MOXIE may help in sustaining human life by producing oxygen.
On Monday, August 29, 2022, NASA is all set to launch the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission going back to the moon after 50 years since the Apollo mission.
