Category Archives: Mars

The Exploration of Mars’ Largest Moon Will Continue With the Phobos Grunt Mission

The exploration of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, will continue with Phobos Grunt, a Russian mission to be launched next year.  Roscosmos, the Russian national space agency, is planning to put a lander down on Phobos and return … Continue reading

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The Exploration of Mars Continues With ESA’s ExoMars Mission

Mars is being invaded! Already our orbiters are orbiting, our landers are landing and our rovers are roving- and more of them are on the way. Over the next few years, the red planet will be subjected to an array … Continue reading

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The Caverns of Phobos Exploring the Hollow Moon of Mars

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite, which is in orbit around the red planet, is presently conducting a series of flybys of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons.  The final flyby in this series will take place on … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Missions: Phoenix Lander

This is part two in our feature, A Tale of Two Missions, looking at the 2001 Mars Odyssey satellite and the Phoenix lander.  As we saw in part one, these missions were planned to complement each other, with Odyssey spotting … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Missions: Mars Odyssey satellite

The exploration of Mars by unmanned satellites and landers is proceeding at a brisk pace. Over the last few years, several impressive pieces of hardware have been sent to Mars, and the science that they are sending us is filling … Continue reading

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