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  UAE probe sends first image of Mars to national space agency

  Science | February 14, 2021 19:50 IST

  The Emirates Mars Mission is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope spacecraft was launched on July 19 last year and reached Mars on February 9 this year.

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  UAE's 'Hope' probe set to reach Mars orbit today

  Science | February 09, 2021 10:43 IST

  The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars, the "Hope" probe is set to reach the Red Planet's orbit on Tuesday.

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  Next stop Mars for UAE, China, NASA as 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession

  Science | February 08, 2021 11:27 IST

  After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.

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  China's space probe captures first image of Mars

  Science | February 07, 2021 8:13 IST

  China's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet.

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  NASA plans to launch Mars ice mapping mission

  Science | February 05, 2021 8:03 IST

  NASA, in collaboration with three international partners, is planning to launch a robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help the agency identify potential science objectives for initial human missions to Mars.

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  Countdown begins for Mars Perseverance launch — Here’s your last minute crash course

  Science | July 30, 2020 9:07 IST

  NASA is all decked up and ready to launch the car-sized Mars rover named Perseverance along with a robotic helicopter named Ingenuity. The two mechanical devices will be traveling to Mars in search of signs of past microbial life and examine the Martian climate and geology in the area which is being called — Jezero crater. If everything goes as planned, the robots will land on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021.

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  UAE launches its first mission 'Hope' to Mars

  Science | July 20, 2020 7:54 IST

  UAE has launched its first mission to Mars on Sunday. It is an orbiter launched via Japanese rocket that will study the planet's weather.  The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 5:58 p.m. Eastern.

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  Mars Mission: 3 countries to send unmanned spacecraft to red planet this week

  Science | July 13, 2020 16:43 IST

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

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  NASA set for mission to seek sign of ancient life on Mars

  Science | July 13, 2020 9:15 IST

  NASA and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on Sunday that NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, and its Martian helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity, were mated with the Atlas V 541 rocket that will kick off the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.

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  UAE likely to send Hope Probe to Mars by 2020, project work 85% complete

  Science | April 23, 2019 15:42 IST

  Hope Probe is scheduled to be launched in July 2020. It is planned to reach Mars by 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE.

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  NASA set to reveal new discovery on Mars by Curiosity rover

  Science | June 07, 2018 12:36 IST

  NASA has not yet provided clues on what the new results are about, but it said that during the event, NASA scientists will have chats with the the public and media on the findings, public can send questions on social media.

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  Will humans be able to handle a three-year trip to Mars?, NASA to explore

  Science | December 29, 2017 12:40 IST

  The US space agency hopes that such research will help it understand, prevent, diagnose, treat, mitigate and cure the potential health effects of prolonged spaceflight.

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  NASA's 2020 Mars rover to have 23 'eyes'

  Science | November 02, 2017 19:01 IST

  NASA said that these "eyes" will provide dramatic views during the rover's descent to Mars and be the first to capture images of a parachute as it opens on another planet.

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  Martian sea that existed 3.7 billion years ago could reveal secret behind origin of life on Earth

  Science | October 10, 2017 13:31 IST

  Discovery of evidence of a Martian sea could reveal clues to the origin of life on Earth.

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  Water escaping Mars has its ups and downs, NASA's MAVEN mission finds

  World | October 20, 2016 19:19 IST

  NASA's MAVEN mission, that has been probing Mars’ upper atmosphere for a whole Martian year – equivalent to two Earth years – has found water escaping the planet does not generally go delicately into space.

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  Happy second anniversary Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)! This is how ISRO celebrated its two years around Martian orbit (See Pics )

  India | September 27, 2016 11:03 IST

  The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft, which entered the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014, has completed two years of its life around the red planet. On Saturday while announcing this great news to media, Indian

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  After US, India missions to Mars, China aims for deep space

  World | October 15, 2015 16:34 IST

  Beijing: Under criticism that its well developed space programme focussed more on the Moon while the US and India stole a march over China by branching out into outer space with voyages to Mars, Chinese

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  ISRO bags Space Pioneer Award for its Mars mission

  India | June 09, 2015 15:04 IST

  Bengaluru: The country's low-cost Mars mission which is in rendezvous with the red Planet for an extended period has been presented with the Space Pioneer award for the year 2015 by the US' National Space

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  NASA successfully tests 'flying saucer' for Mars mission

  World | June 09, 2015 12:25 IST

  Washington: After a series of weather-related delays, NASA has successfully tested its revolutionary "flying saucer" that will help land heavier payloads on the surface of long-distance planets, including Mars.NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed

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  Mars missions to rest as Red Planet hides behind Sun

  World | June 08, 2015 13:59 IST

  Washington: From June 7 to June 21, NASA's Mars Missions will not beam any new data to the Earth as the Red Planet goes behind the Sun and the spacecraft and rovers take their biennial