China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.  The Tianwen-1 mission, China’s first interplanetary endeavor, reached the surface of the Red Planet Friday (May 14) at approximately 7:11 p.m. EDT (2311 GMT), though Chinese space officials have not yet confirmed the... Read more

Luca Rossettini and Vittorio Netti are crew members of our mission SMOPS (www.smops.space) at MDRS. Read more

With our treadmill MOTIGRAVITY we are ready to bring human kind on Mars in Virtual Reality. Wide applications and options already tested in Space Medicine and Education/STEM: https://marsvrsys.com/motigravity/ Read more

Today, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. «Ingenuity is the latest in a long and storied tradition of NASA projects achieving a space exploration goal once thought impossible,» said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. « We... Read more

NASA has delayed by at least several days the first flight of its mini-helicopter on Mars after a possible tech issue emerged while testing its rotors, the US space agency said Saturday. Ingenuity’s trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for... Read more

Nadia Maarouf and Simone Paternostro are two members of the crew of our mission SMOPS: www.smops.space Read more

It has been a difficult choice: The winner projects of the Mars To Earth AWARD 3rd Edition are: 1)Mars habitat, 2)Mars Facade system, 3)Demeter. The Award of Excellence will be delivered to the winners by an innovative certification system linked to the Blockchain. Read more

NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Ingenuity remains attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars Feb. On March 21, the rover deployed the guitar case-shaped graphite... Read more

The third number of our Mars Planet Report (in Italian only) is on line. You can download directly from our website: www.marsplanet.org Read more

Due “campioni” audio, uno col rumore del rover e uno filtrato, ascoltabili in sequenza, che arrivano sulla Terra grazie ai microfoni di Perseverance, che hanno registrato l’audio del pianeta rosso: è la prima volta. Credit Repubblica.it Read more