This week, scientists from NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most remote, arid regions on the planet. Both teams came to hone their research techniques before their missions launch to the Red Planet next summer in search…
NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission. Starting Tuesday, K-12 students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Mars 2020 Name the Rover essay contest. One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited to see the spacecraft…
The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious rocks, dust and gas from Mars – the key to understanding whether life ever existed on our closest planetary neighbour. Credit…
Falcon 9 of Space-X will be be launced with on board the Israel Lander “Beresheet” developed by the private company SpaceIL. The lander has as destination the Moon Surface and with this mission Israel will become the 4th Nation to send a lander on Moon, after USA, RUSSIA and CHINA.
At 320 Ml Km from our planet the Japanese Space Probe Hayabusa-2 collets a sample from Ryugu Asteroid. The sample will be carried bach on Earth to study its structure and composition.
China’s Chang’e-4 mission demonstrates the possibility to farm vegetables on an external planetary body.
Elon Musk of Spacex announcing the prototype of Starship. The prototype more little than the actual Starship will be used as testbed for the development of the technology for the human exploration of Moon /Mars/ Space.
The project was developed in collaboration with the University of Bergamo. The assigned task concerned the design of a greenhouse for Mars colonization. We started from an existing project based on a room containing shelves supporting vases with plants. Not satisfied from the innovative point of view, we have broken down the problem and…
The project was developed in collaboration with Università degli studi di Bergamo. The task we were given was to design a mid-range rover to be used in the colonization project of Mars. Requirements: maximum speed at least 25 km/h; capacity to overcome 50cm height obstacle; capacity to go through 20% slope; presence of a water…
How to simulate a Cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Mars? The MigroG laboratory (Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil) lead by Prof. Thais Russomano, member of the Steering Committee of Mars Planet, is testing a new method for the simulation of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Mars. Since the first human outposts on Mars will be probably composed of a reduced number…