Exploration of Mars Current Affairs, GK & News
Mars Solar Conjunction
On the surface of Mars are NASA’s Curiosity rover and InSight lander. Above Mars are several orbiters, Antennas on Earth and those on active spacecraft on or around Mars regularly exchange data. This regular exchange of data will pause between August 28 and September 7 because of a phenomenon called Mars solar conjunction. Why it ..
Topics: Discovery and exploration of the Solar System • Exploration of Mars • Geography of Mars • InSight • Mars • Mars Express • Mars program • Mars rovers • NASA • Rover • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • Sun
UAE Space Agency and Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre announces that 85% of Hope Probe project completed
The UAE Space Agency and Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) have recently announced that 85% of the Hope Probe project has been completed. Hope Probe is an ambitious dream project of UAE to send a mission to Mars. Hope Probe is scheduled to be launched in July 2020. With a successful launch, UAE hopes ..
Topics: Book:Mars • Exploration of Mars • Hope Mars Mission • In spaceflight • Mars • Mars program • Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre • Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi • Outer space • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • United Arab Emirates Space Agency
UAE to launch Mars Mission “HOPE” by 2020
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently announced to launch Mars Mission “HOPE”, which is expected to be launched by 2020. Upon launch, it will become the first mission to Mars by any Arab or Muslim country. The aim of the mission is to enrich the capabilities of Emirati engineers and to increase human knowledge ..
Topics: Climate of Mars • Exploration of Mars • Hope Mars Mission • In spaceflight • InSight • Mars • Planetary surface • Spacecraft • Spaceflight
ISRO proposes to undertake Mars Mission in October-November, 2013
The ISRO has proposed to undertake a Mars Orbiter Mission in October-November, 2013. It will be India’s first step towards exploring the planet Mars. The proposal is currently under examination for government approval. The Mars spacecraft will be placed in an elliptical orbit around the red planet after a voyage of almost 300 days. During ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2012
Topics: Exploration of Mars • Geography of Mars • Human mission to Mars • Indian Space Research Organisation • Mars • Mars Orbiter Mission • Mars program • Outer space • Spacecraft • Spaceflight
Mars500
An isolation experiment in Russia simulated a 520-day human mission to Mars. Six volunteers were locked away in windowless cells in June 2010. The $15-million Mars500 experiment, which ended on Nov. 4, was the first full-duration simulation of a human expedition to Mars. During the mission, the crew was hermetically isolated. After 250 days the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Topics: Colonization of Mars • Exploration of Mars • Human mission to Mars • Human missions to Mars • International Space Station • Mars • Mars analog habitat • Mars Society • MARS-500 • Outer space • Space medicine • Spaceflight
MSL Mission and Curiosity Rover
Recently NASA has launched the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) with the aim to land and operate a rover named Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. Curiosity will attempt a more precise landing than attempted previously and then help assess Mars’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Topics: Aeolis quadrangle • Astrobiology • Astronomy • Curiosity • Exploration of Mars • Gale • Life on Mars • Mars • Mars rover • Outer space • Phobos • Rover