Mars

Caption:In a study published today, researchers report that, by the end of 2021, the MIT-led MOXIE project was able to produce oxygen on seven experimental runs on the Red Planet. Credits:Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Reliably producing oxygen on Mars: Already done
Caption:In a study published today, researchers report that, by the end of 2021, the MIT-led
First oxygen extracted from The Red Planet by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen
Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE)
A significant portion of Mars’s water—between 30 and 99 percent—is trapped within minerals in the planet’s crust
While it was previously suspected that most of Mars's water was lost to space, a
A fleet of tiny aircraft to explore Mars that have no moving parts and weigh as much as a fruit fly
Despite weighing about a third of a milligram, Penn Engineers are now testing their “nanocardboard
Terraforming Mars starts to look possible

Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gasses keep Earth

How to make breathable oxygen with a new kind of comet-inspired chemistry

Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very

Water on Mars could hold enough oxygen to possibly support simple aerobic life – could there really be life on Mars?

Given the right circumstances, water on Mars could hold more oxygen than previously believed, theoretically

Terraforming Mars is not possible with current technologies

Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable

A water body exists below the Martian south polar ice cap

Without water, no form of life as we know it could exist. There is therefore

Swarms of winged flyers for Mars exploration

The objective of the proposed work is to increase the set of possible exploration and

New Mars rover will bring Mars closer with 23 high-res cameras

When NASA’s Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a

A Mars mission could make its own oxygen with plasma technology

Plasma technology could hold the key to creating a sustainable oxygen supply on Mars, a

Lava tubes could provide protected habitats large enough to house streets on Mars

Lava tubes, underground caves created by volcanic activity, could provide protected habitats large enough to

New Lidar Device to Search for Signatures of Life on Mars

A sensing technique that the U.S. military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to

Mars’ surface revealed in unprecedented detail via revolutionary image technique

The surface of Mars – including the location of Beagle-2 – has been shown in