NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, has landed successfully on the Red Planet this week. After a journey of 203 days and 293 million miles, the intrepid robotic explorer touched down at 3:55pm EST on Thursday. It hopes to pave the way to bringing samples back to Earth for examination. With a sample caching system, the …
Hope Probe Reaches Martian Orbit
The United Arab Emirates have reached a milestone for Arab space science. The Emirates Mars Mission (Hope Probe) reached the Red Planet yesterday at 19:30 GMT, where it will follow an elliptical orbit. It will take the probe as close as 1,000 km to the surface and as far as 49,380 km away! The Hope …