Perseverance breathes fresh life into the mining and space sectors0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 24, 2021
Mars Rover Perseverance’s CO2-splitting MOXIE device draws the eye of the world’s biggest miners.
Mars Rover Perseverance’s CO2-splitting MOXIE device draws the eye of the world’s biggest miners.
Drilling in the dee-ee-eep. The ExoMars rover’s Earth-dwelling twin shows off its skills.
Researchers have created a building material that could be made in space from space dust and astronauts’ bodily fluids such as blood, sweat, and tears.
The initial images captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover show an intact Mars sample present in a sample tube after coring.
Most of Mars is extremely inhospitable to life, but there may be a workaround. The areas near the entrances to caves should, in theory, be shielded from some of the harmful radiation that bombards the planet’s surface.
But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun
The more Mars rovers, the merrier.
Six months ago, the craft started sending back never-before-seen views of the Red Planet
Perseverance tried to extract a core sample from a rock, but Mars didn’t play nice.
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