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  • Drilling into Mars | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission (episode 3)

    Drilling into Mars | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission (episode 3)

    The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will drill deeper than any other mission has ever attempted on the Red Planet.

    The third episode in the series shows how the rover will extract, collect and analyse martian samples in a high-fidelity simulation.

    Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from harsh surface radiation and extreme temperatures.

    The drill system combines multiple precission mechanisms in an intricate automated sequence. It uses three extension rods that connect tor form a two-metre “drill string”.

    As the rover drills, it will simultaneously investigate the borehole using infrared spectroscopy to study mineral composition.

    The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission is part of Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
    Production: Mlabspace for ESA
    3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace
    Music composed by Valentin Joudrier

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  • Below the surface | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission

    Below the surface | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission

    Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.

    This episode starts with Rosalind searching for traces of life below the martian surface using a ground penetrating radar and a set of cameras.

    The rover will dig, collect, and investigate the chemical composition of material collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures.

    Rosalind Franklin uses the WISDOM radar to help scientists on Earth decide where to drill. Besides identifying the most promising targets for sampling, WISDOM will help the rover avoid potential hazards, such as the presence of buried rocks that could damage the drill.
    The scientific eyes of the rover are set on the Panoramic Camera suite known as PanCam. The Close-UP Imager (CLUPI) sits on the side of the drill box, a camera designed to acquire high-resolution, colour, close-up images of outcrops, rocks and soils. PanCam and CLUPI will help scientists find the most promising spots to drill. These instruments can also investigate very fine outcrop details and image drill samples before they are sent into the rover’s laboratory.
    After the rover retracts its drill, the sample is in a special chamber at the tip. Under the reduced martian gravity (38% of Earth’s), the material drops onto a special “hand” that the rover can extend to the front to collect drill samples.
    The mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions.

    The ExoMars rover series show the rover and martian landscapes as true to reality as possible for a simulation.

    Check ESA’s ExoMars website and our frequently asked questions for the latest updates.

    Credits: ESA – European Space
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    3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace
    Video footage: ESA/NASA, Shutterstock
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  • This is the biggest volcano in the solar system 🌋 #shorts

    This is the biggest volcano in the solar system 🌋 #shorts

    Olympus Mons has an average elevation of 22 kilometres and the caldera, or summit crater, has a depth of about 3 kilometres. The data was retrieved during orbit 143 of Mars Express on 24 February 2004. The view is looking north.

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  • Scouting the Red Planet with ExoMars

    Scouting the Red Planet with ExoMars

    Watch the first episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.

    This episode starts after a successful descent and landing on the Red Planet in 2030.

    Rovers on Mars have previously been caught in loose soils, and turning the wheels dug them deeper, just like a car stuck in sand. To avoid this, Rosalind Franklin has a unique wheel-walking locomotion mode to overcome difficult terrains, as well as autonomous navigation software.

    A major goal of the mission is to understand the geological context and identify minerals formed in the presence of water that could be good targets for drilling into and collecting samples for analysis.

    The scientific eyes of the rover are set atop the mast on the Panoramic Camera suite, known as PanCam. From its vantage point about two metres above the ground, PanCam cameras come into play to get a whole picture of the site with high resolution imaging.

    Enfys, meaning rainbow in Welsh, is an infrared spectrometer to study mineral composition. Enfys and PanCam work in synergy. PanCam is used to obtain colour, visual information of what lies around the rover. Enfys’ job is to inform scientists what the minerals are.

    Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures.

    The mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions.

    This episode shows the spacecraft, the rover and martian landscapes are as true to reality as possible for a simulation.

    Check ESA’s ExoMars website and our frequently asked questions for the latest updates.

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    3D animation: ESA/Mlabspace

    Video footage: ESA/NASA, Shutterstock

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  • A bold new approach to Mars orbit 🔴 #shorts

    A bold new approach to Mars orbit 🔴 #shorts

    ESA is venturing towards putting a spacecraft into orbit around Mars using a technique that engineers have studied for over half a century but never dared to attempt.

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  • A mission for the Rosalind Franklin rover

    A mission for the Rosalind Franklin rover

    Trailer of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission.

    In 2028, ESA will launch its most ambitious exploration mission to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.

    Enjoy the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission in minute detail – everything down to the colour and size of the wires, sticky tape and scratches. The spacecraft, the rover and martian landscapes are as true to reality as possible for a simulation. The visuals show the spacecraft structural engineering with a faithful robotic appearance. The martian landscape has been simulated with meticulous realism.

    The story begins with the rover exploring the surface of the Red Planet. There is science to be done. Join the adventure.

    This trailer provides a first taste for the most accurate animation series made so far of a Mars mission.

    ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover has unique scientific potential to search for evidence of past life on Mars thanks to its drill and scientific instruments. It will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures. The drill will retrieve soils from ancient parts of Mars and analyse them in situ with its onboard laboratory.

    The mission will also serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions. This includes the capability to land safely on a planet, to move autonomously on the surface, and to perform drilling and sample processing and analysis automatically. The rover will use novel driving techniques including wheel-walking to overcome difficult terrains, as well as autonomous navigation software.

    Check ESA’s ExoMars website [https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars] and our frequently asked questions [https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/FAQ_The_rebirth_of_ESA_s_ExoMars_Rosalind_Franklin_mission] for the latest updates.

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  • Bringing Mars rock samples back to Earth 🌍 #shorts

    Bringing Mars rock samples back to Earth 🌍 #shorts

    Missions to Mars have made many exciting discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the planet, but the next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories.

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  • Did you already know these 4 facts about Mars? 🤓 #shorts

    Did you already know these 4 facts about Mars? 🤓 #shorts

    1. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. They are both too light for gravity to make them spherical.

    2. It has the highest volcano in the Solar System, the Olympus Mons. It rises 25 kilometres above the surrounding plain: Mount Everest is only one third as high.

    3. The air is 100 times thinner than on Earth, and mostly made up of carbon dioxide. Human explorers will have to wear oxygen masks and special suits every time they step outside their sealed homes.

    4. Like Earth, the Red Planet has two large ice caps at its north and south poles.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • Picking up lightsabres for Mars

    Picking up lightsabres for Mars

    Detect, fetch and collect. A seemingly easy task is being tested to find the best strategy to collect samples on the martian surface, some 290 000 million km away from home.

    Testing technologies for Mars exploration is part of the daily job of Laura Bielenberg, an ESA graduate trainee for the Mars Sample Return campaign.

    The test takes place at the rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The nickname of this test site is the ‘Mars Yard’ and is part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory.

    The tube is a replica of the sample caches that NASA’s Perseverance rover is leaving on Mars hermetically sealed with precious martian samples inside. They are called RSTA, an acronym of Returnable Sample Tube Assembly, and to most people on Earth they look like lightsabers.
    Laura is investigating sample tube collection strategies, from autonomous detection to pose estimation of sample tubes on Mars, with a testbed called the RABBIT (RAS Bread Boarding In-house Testbed).

    The Sample Transfer Arm will need to load the tubes from the martian surface for delivery towards Earth. ESA’s robotic arm will collect them from the Perseverance rover, and possibly others dropped by sample recovery helicopters as a backup.

    Besides cameras and sensors, the team relies on neural networks to detect the tubes and estimate their pose. Inspired by the way the human brain works, neural networks mimic the way biological neurons signal to one another.

    More news about the Mars Sample Return campaign on ESA’s To Mars and Back blog: https://blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-back/

    Credits: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC

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  • ExoMars | Back on track for the Red Planet

    ExoMars | Back on track for the Red Planet

    A year has passed since the launch of the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission was put on hold, but the work has not stopped for the ExoMars teams in Europe.

    In this programme, the ESA Web TV crew travel back to Turin, Italy to talk to the teams and watch as new tests are being conducted with the rover’s Earth twin Amalia while the real rover remains carefully stored in an ultra-clean room.

    The 15-minute special programme gives an update on what happened since the mission was cancelled in 2022 because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the plan ahead, the new challenges, the latest deep drilling test and the stringent planetary protection measures in place.

    ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover has unique drilling capabilities and an on-board science laboratory unrivalled by any other mission in development. Its twin rover Amalia was back on its wheels and drilled down 1.7 metres into a martian-like ground in Italy – about 25 times deeper than any other rover has ever attempted on Mars. The rover also collected samples for analysis under the watchful eye of European science teams.

    ESA, together with international and industrial partners, is reshaping the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Mission with new European elements, including a lander, and a target date of 2028 for the trip to Mars.

    The newly shaped Rosalind Franklin Mission will recover one of the original objectives of ExoMars – to create an independent European capability to access the surface of Mars with a sophisticated robotic payload.

    More information: https://www.esa.int/ExoMars

    Credits: ESA

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  • Happy New Year on Mars 🔴 #shorts

    Happy New Year on Mars 🔴 #shorts

    As Mars orbits around our Sun, time on the Red Planet is measured in years. However, there are some significant differences between a year on Mars and a year on Earth. Let’s look at some similarities and differences between a year on the two planets.

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  • News Briefing: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Area (Sept. 15, 2022)

    News Briefing: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Area (Sept. 15, 2022)

    NASA will host a briefing to provide highlights from the first year-and-a-half of the Perseverance rover’s exploration of Mars.

    The rover landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021 and is collecting samples of rock and other materials from the Martian surface. Perseverance is investigating the sediment-rich ancient river delta in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater.

    Speakers:
    • Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
    • Laurie Leshin, JPL director
    • Rick Welch, Perseverance deputy project manager, JPL
    • Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist, Caltech
    • Sunanda Sharma, Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) scientist, JPL
    • David Shuster, Perseverance returned sample scientist, University of California, Berkeley

    https://mars.nasa.gov

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  • New global water map of Mars #shorts

    New global water map of Mars #shorts

    A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet’s watery past, and showing where we should land in the future.

    Learn more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/New_water_map_of_Mars_will_prove_invaluable_for_future_exploration

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  • 2.5 metres of robotic arm for Mars #shorts

    2.5 metres of robotic arm for Mars #shorts

    The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.

    The sophisticated robot, known as the Sample Transfer Arm or STA, will play a crucial role in the success of the Mars Sample Return campaign. The joint endeavour between @NASA and ESA aims to bring back martian samples to the best labs in our planet by 2033.

    The robotic arm will land on Mars to retrieve the sample tubes NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently collecting from the surface. Able to “see”, “feel” and take autonomous decisions, the Sample Transfer Arm will identify, pick up and transfer the tubes into the first rocket fired off another planet – the Mars Launch System.

    Only after the robot closes the container’s lid, the martian samples will be launched for rendezvous with ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) and bring the material back to Earth.

    The Sample Transfer Arm is conceived to be autonomous, highly reliable and robust.

    Its architecture mimics a human arm with a shoulder, elbow and wrist, and has its own built-in brain and eyes. The robot can perform a large range of movements with seven degrees of freedom.

    Learn more about Mars Sample Return: https://bit.ly/MarsSampleReturn

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  • Drop tests for touchdown on Mars

    Drop tests for touchdown on Mars

    The ExoMars team have performed important parachute drop tests as crucial preparation for a safe touchdown on Mars in 2023. The European Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of past life beneath the surface of Mars with its unique two metre drill and onboard laboratory. The Russian surface science platform Kazachok will study the environment at the landing site. Landing on Mars is always a challenging endeavour and all possible parameters are taken into account.

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  • Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

    Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

    NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover’s entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft’s descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

    The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.

    For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance

    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

  • 3D print your own Mars rover with ExoMy

    3D print your own Mars rover with ExoMy

    Europe’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has a younger ’sibling’, ExoMy. The blueprints and software for this mini-version of the full-size Mars explorer are available for free so that anyone can 3D print, assemble and program their own ExoMy.

    Learn more at www.esa.int/exomy

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  • #EZScience: Preparing to Launch the Perseverance Rover to Mars

    #EZScience: Preparing to Launch the Perseverance Rover to Mars

    In this “On the Go” episode of #EZScience, we’re on the scene at Kennedy Space Center with the rocket that will take the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars.

    ABOUT THE SERIES: In our #EZScience video series with the National Air and Space Museum, NASA’s associate administrator for science Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen and Museum director Dr. Ellen Stofan talk about the latest in planetary science and exploration.

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  • Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site

    Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site

    This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the @NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission. The planned landing area is marked with an orange ellipse.

    Scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 30 July 2020 on board an Atlas V rocket, the Perseverance rover will land on 18 February 2021 in Jezero crater.

    An impact crater with a diameter of about 45 km, Jezero is located at the rim of the giant Isidis impact basin. Morphological evidence suggests that the crater once hosted a lake, some 3.5 billion years ago.

    Jezero possesses an inlet- and an outlet channel. The inlet channel discharges into a fan-delta deposit, containing water-rich minerals such as smectite clays. Scientists believe that the lake was relatively long lived because the delta may have required 1 to 10 million years to reach its thickness and size. Other studies conclude that the lake did not experience periods of important water-level fluctuations and that it was formed by a continuous surface runoff. This makes Jezero crater to a prime target for the search for potential signs of microbial life, because organic molecules are very well preserved in river deltas and lake sediments.

    A recent study of the ancient lakeshores, diverse minerals and violent volcanism of Jezero crater based on data from ESA’s Mars Express mission is available here: https://bit.ly/MarsExpressHelpsUncoverTheSecretsOfPerseveranceLandingSite

    The animation was created using an image mosaic made from four single orbit observations obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express between 2004 and 2008. The mosaic combines data from the HRSC nadir and colour channels; the nadir channel is aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, as if looking straight down at the surface. The mosaic image was then combined with topography information from the stereo channels of HRSC to generate a three-dimensional landscape, which was then recorded from different perspectives, as with a movie camera, to render the flight shown in the video.

    Copyright:
    Animation: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
    Music: Björn Schreiner
    Soundtrack logo: Alicia Neesemann

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  • We Persevere

    We Persevere

    NASA’s next Mars rover has a name – Perseverance. Like every exploration mission before, our rover is going to face challenges, and it’s going to make amazing discoveries. 

    The time at hand is hard. We have already surmounted many obstacles on our way to Red Planet, but as humans we will not give up. We will always persevere.

    Targeted for launch in July 2020, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover will search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past and for signs of past microbial life itself.

    Learn more about the mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

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  • Mars confinement tips

    Mars confinement tips

    In these times of confinement, ESA astronaut support engineer Romain Charles shares nine tips on how to live in isolation – he spent 520 days locked in a mockup spacecraft and is a true expert on the subject.

    Mars500 locked six ‘marsonauts’ in a simulated spaceship near Moscow, Russia for 520 days, the time it would take to fly to Mars and back plus 30 days spent exploring its surface. It was the first full-length, high-fidelity simulation of a human mission to our neighbouring planet. The crew went into lockdown on 3 June 2010, and they did not open the hatch until 17 months later on 4 November 2011.

    Mars 500 was a success in that it proved that humans can survive the inevitable isolation that is needed for a mission to Mars and back. Psychologically, we can do it!

    The crew had their ups and downs, but these were to be expected. In fact, scientists anticipated many more problems, but the crew did very well coping with the monotonous mission, with little variation in food and even a communication delay over 12 minutes one-way.

    During their simulated mission, the crew lived in isolation without fresh food, sunlight or fresh air. The participants from Italy, Russia, China and France had no external cues such as the Sun going down at night to remind them when to sleep.

    Their bodies are among the most researched in the world. Years of constant monitoring, prodding and taking blood allowed scientists examined how they reacted to the time in confinement with experiments focussing on their bodies, mental states and performance.

    More on Mars 500: www.esa.int/Mars500

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  • ExoMars progress update

    ExoMars progress update

    ExoMars 2020 has passed a number of milestones. The European carrier module was delivered in March. The European rover, which contains nine instruments, has been assembled by Airbus UK and is under environmental testing in Toulouse. It should be integrated with the spacecraft by the end of the year. The spacecraft is now in the Thales Alenia Space test facilities in Cannes to start the environmental and performance verification test campaign that will last until February 2020.

    However, there remain some important challenges ahead for the parachute system of the descent module. Recent balloon high-altitude drop tests were unsuccessful. As a result, the next and final two drop tests, scheduled between January and March 2020, must be fully successful otherwise the mission cannot launch in 2020.

    The joint ESA and Russian mission consists of four elements: a carrier module to propel the spacecraft to Mars, a descent module, a surface science platform and the Rosalind Franklin rover, which will use its drill up to depths of two meters to search for signs of life.

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  • ExoMars Rover: from concept to reality

    ExoMars Rover: from concept to reality

    The second part of the ExoMars programme is ongoing.

    In Stevenage, UK, a rover is being built that will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. It will be the first mission to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth.

    The primary goal of the ExoMars programme is to address the question of whether life has ever existed on the red planet.

    The first part of the programme was launched in March 2016 with the Trace Gas Orbiter. The second part is planned for launch in 2020 and comprises the rover and surface science platform

    ExoMars is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.

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  • Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet

    Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet

    On 25 December 2003, ESA’s Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the course of its fifteen year history has captured thousands of images covering the globe.

    This video compilation highlights some of the stunning scenes revealed by this long-lived mission. From breathtaking horizon-to-horizon views to the close-up details of ice- and dune-filled craters, and from the polar ice caps and water-carved valleys to ancient volcanoes and plunging canyons, Mars Express has traced billions of years of geological history and evolution.

    For regular news and image releases from Mars Express see http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express

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  • ESA Euronews: Looking for life on Mars with ExoMars

    ESA Euronews: Looking for life on Mars with ExoMars

    ExoMars is the first mission to head to the Red Planet to seek signs of life, now or in the past. It’s a massive scientific and technical challenge, and Euronews meets some of the team involved in this joint ESA-Roscosmos project in this month’s edition of Space.

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  • Fly over Neukum crater

    Fly over Neukum crater

    This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, showcases the 102 km wide Neukum Crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars.

    The crater is named for the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA’s Mars Express mission who inspired and led the development of the high-resolution stereo camera on Mars Express.

    This complex impact crater has a diverse geologic history, as indicated by various features on the crater rim and floor. Particularly striking are the dark dune fields, likely made up of volcanic material blown in and shaped by strong winds.

    The crater’s shallow interior has been infilled by sediments over its history. It is also marked with two irregular depressions that may be a sign of a weaker material that has since eroded away, leaving behind some islands of more resistant material.

    Over time the crater rim has undergone varying degrees of collapse, with landslides and slumped material visible in the crater walls. Many smaller craters have also overprinted the rim and pockmarked the interior since Neukum Crater was formed, highlighting its long history.

    Neukum Crater is situated in Noachis Terra, one of the oldest known regions on Mars, dating back to at least 3.9 billion years.

    Credits: Animation: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Music: Coldnoise, CC BY-SA 4.0 and Adrian Neesemann

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  • Mars sample return

    Mars sample return

    Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars’s surface have made many exciting discoveries, transforming our understanding of the planet and unveiling clues to the formation of our Solar System, as well as helping us understand our home planet. The next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories where results can be verified independently and samples can be reanalysed as laboratory techniques continue to improve.

    Bringing Mars to Earth is no simple undertaking—it would require at least three missions from Earth and one never-been-done-before rocket launch from Mars.

    A first mission, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover, is set to collect surface samples in pen-sized canisters as it explores the Red Planet. Up to 31 canisters will be filled and readied for a later pickup – geocaching gone interplanetary.

    In the same period, ESA’s ExoMars rover, which is also set to land on Mars in 2021, will be drilling up to two meters below the surface to search for evidence of life.

    A second mission with a small fetch rover would land nearby and retrieve the samples in a Martian search-and-rescue operation. This rover would bring the samples back to its lander and place them in a Mars Ascent Vehicle – a small rocket to launch the football-sized container into Mars orbit.

    A third launch from Earth would provide a spacecraft sent to orbit Mars and rendezvous with the sample containers. Once the samples are safely collected and loaded into an Earth entry vehicle, the spacecraft would return to Earth, release the vehicle to land in the United States, where the samples will be retrieved and placed in quarantine for detailed analysis by a team of international scientists.

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  • Paxi – Rosetta og kometer

    Paxi – Rosetta og kometer

    Følg Paxi til randen av solsystemet, oppdag kometenes verden og lær om det fantastiske Rosetta har på kometen 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

    I videoen, som retter seg mot barn mellom 6–12 år, tar Paxi barna med seg for å oppdage kometer og Rosetta – det fantastiske ESA-romfartøyet som flyr langs kometen 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. 12.11.2014 skal det prøve å slippe en lander på denne.

    Videoen er den tredje i en serie av animasjoner hvor Paxi, ESAs utdannelsesmaskot, kommer i kontakt med forskjellige sider ved solsystemet, universet, jordens hemmeligheter og mye mer.

  • Paxi – Finns det Marsianer?

    Paxi – Finns det Marsianer?

    Följ med Paxi på hans resa till Mars där han utforskar planetens uttorkade flodfåror, vulkaner och polernas istäcken.

  • Paxi – ¿Los marcianos existen?

    Paxi – ¿Los marcianos existen?

    Sigue a Paxi en su viaje a Marte, donde explorará los lechos secos de los ríos, un enorme volcán y los casquetes polares del planeta.

  • Paxi – Există marțienii ?

    Paxi – Există marțienii ?

    Urmează-l pe Paxi în călătoria sa spre Marte, unde va explora albiile secate ale râurilor de pe planetă, vulcanii şi calotele polare de gheaţă.

  • Paxi – Os marcianos existem?

    Paxi – Os marcianos existem?

    Siga o Paxi na sua viagem a Marte, onde ele irá explorar os leitos de rios secos do planeta, vulcões e calotas polares.

  • Paxi – Czy Marsjanie istnieją?

    Paxi – Czy Marsjanie istnieją?

    Podróżując razem z Paxim na Marsa, zbadacie wyschnięte koryta rzek tej planety, wulkany oraz polarne czapy lodowe.

  • Paxi – Den röda planetens hemligheter

    Paxi – Den röda planetens hemligheter

    Följ med Paxi på hans resa till den röda planeten för att undersöka om det finns marsmänniskor och lär dig samtidigt om europeiska rymdsamarbetets ExoMars-projekt.

  • Paxi – Secretos del planeta rojo

    Paxi – Secretos del planeta rojo

    Acompaña a Paxi en su viaje al Planeta Rojo para investigar si existen los marcianos y descubrir más cosas sobre las misiones ExoMars de la Agencia Espacial Europea.

  • Paxi – Secretele Planetei Roșii

    Paxi – Secretele Planetei Roșii

    Însoţeşte-l pe Paxi în călătoria sa spre Planeta Roşie, pentru a investiga dacă există marţieni şi pentru a afla mai multe despre misiunile ExoMars ale Agenţiei Spaţiale Europene.

  • Paxi – Sekrety Czerwonej Planety

    Paxi – Sekrety Czerwonej Planety

    Leć razem z Paxim na Czerwoną Planetę, aby sprawdzić, czy Marsjanie istnieją i dowiedzieć się więcej o misjach ExoMars Europejskiej Agencji Kosmicznej.

  • Paxi – Segredos do Planeta Vermelho

    Paxi – Segredos do Planeta Vermelho

    Acompanhe o Paxi na sua viagem ao Planeta Vermelho para investigar se existem marcianos e ficar a conhecer as missões ExoMars da Agência Espacial Europeia.

  • Paxi – Den røde planeten

    Paxi – Den røde planeten

    Bli med på reisen til den røde planeten for å finne ut om marsboerne eksisterer, og lær mer om ExoMars-oppdragene til Det europeiske romfartsbyrået.

  • Paxi – Finnes det marsboere

    Paxi – Finnes det marsboere

    Bli med Paxi til Mars og utforsk planetens tørre elveleier, vulkaner og polaris.