Tag: Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on Mars for several months and has been busy but hasn't done any real scientific work. The rover has been documenting test flights and acting as a communications base station for the spectacularly successful Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.NASA has granted Perseverance permission to conduct some basic scientific operations in its immediate vicinity.Perseverance recently studied rocks in its immediate vicinity with its high-resolution camera and laser. The rocks were always meant to be studied by the rover because its landing site, known as Jezero Crater, is thought to have been a lake in the distant past. If the theories that the location was once a lake are correct, it could have been home to life of some kind.Scientists may be able to learn m...

HANKSVILLE, Utah— Hanksville The red cliffs west of Hanksville, Utah easily described as extraterrestrial. It is the perfect place to simulate a mission to Mars red planet.CU Boulder graduate student Shayna Hume just stayed with five other astronauts for two weeks in the wilderness. She said the environment so closely resembled Mars that it was easy to come into character."We'd check out the plateaux, the strata, the stunning red colours along the rock, "He said the 24-year-old. "And if I didn't know anything better, I would say that this is Utah, one of us would stand very still and say Wow. It's just beautiful."It is called an analogue mission by astronauts. Simulation of life in space while on Earth.The Mars Desert Research Station, operated by the Mars Society, is a replica of spac...