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ERNEST completes first phase field testing in desert of California - ERNEST is a prototype for future long range lunar and Martian explorer intended to transverse shadowed crater floors, lava tubes, and water-ice deposits at the Martian lunar south pole.

Next Steps = scale the vehicle to twice the size of the current prototype. https://satnews.com/2026/06/28/nasa-concludes-desert-field-testing-for-autonomous-lunar-rover-prototype/ #Mars #MarsRover #Space #JPL #NASA #MarsExploration #SpaceExploration #LunarRover #ERNEST #LunarRover

ERNEST completes first phase field testing in desert of California - ERNEST is a prototype for future long range lunar and Martian explorer intended to transverse shadowed crater floors, lava tubes, and water-ice deposits at the Martian lunar south pole.

Next Steps = scale the vehicle to twice the size of the current prototype. https://satnews.com/2026/06/28/nasa-concludes-desert-field-testing-for-autonomous-lunar-rover-prototype/ #Mars #MarsRover #Space #JPL #NASA #MarsExploration #SpaceExploration #LunarRover #ERNEST #LunarRover

Relativity Space Plans Private Mars Orbiter with NASA Scientific Instruments for 2028 Launch

📰 Original title: La sonda marciana de Relativity Space

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View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/relativity-space-plans-private-mars-orbiter-with-nasa-scientific-instruments-for-2028-launch.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#astronomy #marsexploration #relativityspace #nasainstruments

Curiosity Shakes Loose a Pesky Rock https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26724/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NASA #CuriosityRover #MarsExploration #SpaceScience #Mars

Mars überrascht wieder: Curiosity findet organische Vielfalt wie nie zuvor – und warum das für ExoMars jetzt noch wichtiger wird
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/04/22/mars-uberrascht-wieder-curiosity-findet-organische-vielfalt-wie-nie-zuvor-und-warum-das-fur-exomars-jetzt-noch-wichtiger-wird/ #Mars #Curiosity #MarsScience #OrganicMolecules #Astrobiology #MarsExploration #RedPlanet #LifeOnMars #Biosignatures
#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #NASA #ESA #ExoMars #RosalindFranklinRover #MOMA #SAMInstrument #MarsGeology #AncientMars #MarsResearch #Perseverance #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #MarsSamples #SampleReturn #Mars2020 #MarsMission

Mars überrascht wieder: Curiosity findet organische Vielfalt wie nie zuvor – und warum das für ExoMars jetzt noch wichtiger wird
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/04/22/mars-uberrascht-wieder-curiosity-findet-organische-vielfalt-wie-nie-zuvor-und-warum-das-fur-exomars-jetzt-noch-wichtiger-wird/ #Mars #Curiosity #MarsScience #OrganicMolecules #Astrobiology #MarsExploration #RedPlanet #LifeOnMars #Biosignatures
#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #NASA #ESA #ExoMars #RosalindFranklinRover #MOMA #SAMInstrument #MarsGeology #AncientMars #MarsResearch #Perseverance #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #MarsSamples #SampleReturn #Mars2020 #MarsMission

1/ Important news for #Europe’s #Mars ambitions: NASA has begun implementation of ROSA in support of ESA’s Rosalind Franklin mission. #Mars2028 #LifeDetection #MarsDrill #MarsRover #RedPlanet #SpaceScience #Exploration #MarsAstrobiology #MarsExploration

NASA startet Umsetzung für Europas Mars-Rover – Aufbruch für #RosalindFranklin, aber mit politischen Risiken
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/04/18/nasa-startet-umsetzung-fur-europas-mars-rover-aufbruch-fur-rosalind-franklin-aber-mit-politischen-risiken/
#ExoMars #ESA #NASA #Mars #Astrobiology #SearchForLife #MarsMission #SpacePolicy #ScienceFunding #MarsRover #MarsAstrobiology #MarsExploration

ROBOTS SHIFT EARTH-BOUND CAUTIONS TO COSMIC PROSPECTS

New robots can explore space faster than humans. They work in minutes, not hours. This helps find resources and signs of life on other planets.

#SpaceRobots, #MarsExploration, #MoonMission, #Astrobiology, #NASA

https://newsletter.tf/robots-explore-space-faster-moon-mars/

New robots can explore space 2 times faster than humans. They finish jobs in 12-23 minutes, while humans take 41 minutes.

#SpaceRobots, #MarsExploration, #MoonMission, #Astrobiology, #NASA
https://newsletter.tf/robots-explore-space-faster-moon-mars/

Vom Earth Return Orbiter zur #Astrobiologie-Systemmission: Wie #zefERO zur Plattform für die #ExoMars Orbital #Astrobiology Mission (#EOAM) werden könnte https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/03/16/vom-earth-return-orbiter-zur-astrobiologie-systemmission-wie-zefero-zur-plattform-fur-die-exomars-orbital-astrobiology-mission-eoam-werden-konnte/ #MarsExploration #PlanetaryScience #SpaceInnovation #MarsResearch #OrbitalScience #Europe

Claude AI just navigated NASA's Mars rover 456 meters the first AI-planned drive on another planet. JPL engineers cut route planning time by 50%. AdwaitX breaks down how the same chatbot you use daily now explores Mars

#AdwaitX #ClaudeAI #MarsExploration #News #Tech #AI
https://www.adwaitx.com/claude-ai-first-mars-drive-nasa-perseverance/

Claude AI just navigated NASA's Mars rover 456 meters the first AI-planned drive on another planet. JPL engineers cut route planning time by 50%. AdwaitX breaks down how the same chatbot you use daily now explores Mars

#AdwaitX #ClaudeAI #MarsExploration #News #Tech #AI
https://www.adwaitx.com/claude-ai-first-mars-drive-nasa-perseverance/

Mars Sample Return (MSR): 2026 als mögliches Schlüsseljahr
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/01/03/mars-sample-return-msr-2026-als-mogliches-schlusseljahr/
#Perseverance #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #NASA #ESA #MarsExploration #PerseveranceRover #Astrobiology #SearchForLife #PlanetaryScience #MarsRocks #SpaceScience #Biosignatures #SpacePolicy #SpaceEconomy #Geopolitics #SpaceRace #InternationalCooperation #FutureOfSpace #DeepSpace #SpaceTech #Aerospace #Innovation #SampleReturn

Mars Sample Return (MSR): 2026 als mögliches Schlüsseljahr
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/01/03/mars-sample-return-msr-2026-als-mogliches-schlusseljahr/
#Perseverance #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #NASA #ESA #MarsExploration #PerseveranceRover #Astrobiology #SearchForLife #PlanetaryScience #MarsRocks #SpaceScience #Biosignatures #SpacePolicy #SpaceEconomy #Geopolitics #SpaceRace #InternationalCooperation #FutureOfSpace #DeepSpace #SpaceTech #Aerospace #Innovation #SampleReturn

Astrobiologie: Die faszinierendsten Weltraummissionen 2026 https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/01/03/astrobiologie-die-faszinierendsten-weltraummissionen-2026/
#Astrobiology #SpaceMissions2026 #ArtemisII #SearchForLife #ESA #NASA #PlanetaryScience #HeraMission #Exoplanets #SpaceExploration #DeepSpace #STEM #Astrobiology2026 #MarsExploration #ScienceNews

Astrobiologie: Die faszinierendsten Weltraummissionen 2026 https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/01/03/astrobiologie-die-faszinierendsten-weltraummissionen-2026/
#Astrobiology #SpaceMissions2026 #ArtemisII #SearchForLife #ESA #NASA #PlanetaryScience #HeraMission #Exoplanets #SpaceExploration #DeepSpace #STEM #Astrobiology2026 #MarsExploration #ScienceNews

Rückblick auf 2025 und Ausblick auf 2026 – Ein Jahr im Wandel, ein Jahr voller Möglichkeiten
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2025/12/10/ruckblick-auf-2025-und-ausblick-auf-2026-ein-jahr-im-wandel-ein-jahr-voller-moglichkeiten/
#MarsSampleReturn #Marsmission #MarsExploration #Raumfahrt #SpaceScience #Wissenschaft #PlanetaryScience #NASA
#Review2025 #Outlook2026 #Innovation #Zukunft2026

Show Yourselves Martians! – Pavel Klushantsev

ANNOTATION

This book provides an overview of the mysteries and explorations of Mars. The Red Planet has fascinated humanity since antiquity. The invention of the telescope only deepened its enigmas, particularly with the discovery of the so-called ‘canals.’ This led to the idea of Martians living on the planet in science fiction. But is there really life on Mars? Do Martians exist? What are the canals? To answer questions like these space probes from the USSR and USA started the exploration of Mars in the 1960s. Going to Mars is not straightforward and reaching Mars is an engineering and technological feat. Ever since then we have continued our explorations of the Red Planet. We now have sophisticated rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters in orbit around Mars. In the last few decades our knowledge of Mars has improved in leaps and bounds with new discoveries shedding more and more light on the mysterious planets past and future. This volume presents an outline of these explorations, a journey that continues to advance the bounds of human knowledge with hopes that one day humans will inhabit Mars.

Drawings by V. Korolkov
Translated from the Spanish and Typset in Scribus by Damitr Mazanav

Released on the web by The Mir Titles Project in 2025

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Translators Note

One of the first books that I remember reading was All About the Telescope by Pavel Klushantsev translated to Marathi. The book got me fascinated about science in general and astronomy in particular.

So, when I saw this book by Klushantsev on Mars only available in Spanish, I could not resist from translating it. Though I started the work on this some years back, it was never completed for various reasons. One of them being the complex nature of typsetting in the book. So for this book I have used Scribus for typsetting and the results have been pleasing.

Since the book was written, our knowledge about Mars has increased by leaps and bounds. I have added an additional chapter in the book that summarises the various spacecraft since the 1990s that have taken our knowledge of Mars to the next level. The Martian surface has been revelead unprecendented detail with numerous rovers and orbiters around it. The attribution of images in the last section is provided with the images.

We now have active rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters around it sending us vital information about the Red Planet. All this with hopes that humans would one day land there. It is to those future astronauts this translation and additional sections are dedicated.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

THAT LITTLE STAR IS MARS! 1
THE MYSTERIES OF MARS 14
WHERE CAN YOU LIVE 22
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA OF MARS 32
WE MUST SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF “CANALS” 41
DO MARTIANS EXIST? 46
TRACES OF MARTIANS 56
ARE THE MARTIANS OUR ENEMIES 67
ARE MARTIANS OUR FRIENDS? 77
WE MUST FLY TO MARS 87
IS IT DIFFICULT TO REACH MARS 97
WHAT DID THE SPACE PROBES SEE FROM THEIR ORBIT 117
WATER! 129
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS 136
IN THE FUTURE 152
FROM UNCERTAINTY TO DISCOVERY: MARS SINCE THE 1990s – Damitr Mazanav 163

#Ccbysa #Oer #ingenuity #ISRO #mangalyaan #marsExploration #marsExplorer #marsExpress #marsMission #marsProbes #martianProbes #mirTitlesProject #NASA #perseverance #sovietLiterature #spaceExploration #spaceTravel #ussr #viking

#lifeonmars #ancientmicrobes #marsexploration #nasa

Life On Mars? One Step Closer ...

#lifeonmars #ancientmicrobes #marsexploration #nasa

https://scifi.radio/2025/09/17/life-on-mars-one-step-closer-to-verification/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Happy birthday, Curiosity. And congratulations on still going strong 13 years after landing on Mars for a 2-year mission.

#CuriosityRover #MarsExploration #Mars

@slashdot

"Trump Wants $1 Billion For Private-Sector-Led Mars Exploration"

Necessary edit:

"Trump Wants $1 Billion For #ElonMusk personal #MarsExploration"

@slashdot

"Trump Wants $1 Billion For Private-Sector-Led Mars Exploration"

Necessary edit:

"Trump Wants $1 Billion For #ElonMusk personal #MarsExploration"

Learn more about re-growing forests, and venturing beyond Earth to investigate whether Mars' can sustain life, from the ERC's Annual Scientific Conference 🌱

Watch 👉 https://bit.ly/4gcyVoo

#FrontierResearch #Sustainability #MarsExploration @esm2025_eu @Nature4Climate

Learn more about re-growing forests, and venturing beyond Earth to investigate whether Mars' can sustain life, from the ERC's Annual Scientific Conference 🌱

Watch 👉 bit.ly/4gcyVoo

#Frontier...
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Learn more about re-growing forests, and venturing beyond Earth to investigate whether Mars' can sustain life, from the ERC's Annual Scientific Conference 🌱

Watch 👉 https://bit.ly/4gcyVoo

#FrontierResearch #Sustainability #MarsExploration @esm2025_eu @Nature4Climate

Learn more about re-growing forests, and venturing beyond Earth to investigate whether Mars' can sustain life, from the ERC's Annual Scientific Conference 🌱

Watch 👉 bit.ly/4gcyVoo

#Frontier...
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/ERC_Research/status/1868649791305196014#m

NASA's Perseverance Rover has made an exciting new discovery on Mars! A striking black-and-white striped rock, nicknamed "Freya Castle," has been found in the Jezero Crater. This unique find has sparked curiosity about the planet’s geological history and could offer new insights into Mars' volcanic past.

@goodnews

#NASA #MarsExploration #FreyaCastle #SpaceDiscovery #PerseveranceRover #GoodNews

https://thedebrief.org/nasas-perseverance-rover-makes-unprecedented-discovery-of-bizarre-freya-castle-rock-on-mars/

NASA's Perseverance Rover has made an exciting new discovery on Mars! A striking black-and-white striped rock, nicknamed "Freya Castle," has been found in the Jezero Crater. This unique find has sparked curiosity about the planet’s geological history and could offer new insights into Mars' volcanic past.

@goodnews

#NASA #MarsExploration #FreyaCastle #SpaceDiscovery #PerseveranceRover #GoodNews

https://thedebrief.org/nasas-perseverance-rover-makes-unprecedented-discovery-of-bizarre-freya-castle-rock-on-mars/

@pomarede Exciting update! 🚀 It's fascinating to see the journey from Dox Castle to Pico Turquino! The ancient fractures sound like they hold so many secrets about Mars' past. Can't wait to learn more about the findings from this next site! Thanks for sharing the insights! 🌌🔍 #MarsExploration

@pomarede Exciting update! 🚀 It's fascinating to see the journey from Dox Castle to Pico Turquino! The ancient fractures sound like they hold so many secrets about Mars' past. Can't wait to learn more about the findings from this next site! Thanks for sharing the insights! 🌌🔍 #MarsExploration

Let it be known that taurs were the first to venture beyond the landing site and explore the far reaches of Mars’s dusty surface.

🐾🐾🐾

#Marsexploration #marsrovers #taur

Let it be known that taurs were the first to venture beyond the landing site and explore the far reaches of Mars’s dusty surface.

🐾🐾🐾

#Marsexploration #marsrovers #taur

MARS EXPLORATION, MAY 22, 1984

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf

#May22 #May22nd #CIA #AstralProjection #Mars #MarsExploration

Since the Ingenuity Marscopter worked so well, NASA's come up with a new concept for a flying machine on Mars: it's a solar-powered VTOL fixed-wing aircraft called MAGGIE.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/13/nasa-has-a-possible-ingenuity-successor-and-her-name-is-maggie.html

#space #Mars #NASA #science #SpaceExploration #MarsExploration

Since the Ingenuity Marscopter worked so well, NASA's come up with a new concept for a flying machine on Mars: it's a solar-powered VTOL fixed-wing aircraft called MAGGIE.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/13/nasa-has-a-possible-ingenuity-successor-and-her-name-is-maggie.html

#space #Mars #NASA #science #SpaceExploration #MarsExploration

「Ingenuity」の後の生活: 科学者たちが再び火星の空を目指す希望
https://www.space.com/life-after-ingenuity-how-scientists-hope-to-fly-on-mars-again

NASAの新たな概念MAGGIEは、火星到着のロボット飛行機を描いた新しいアニメーションを公開。ソーラーパネルによるエネルギーを使って火星の大気圏を飛行し、火星の磁場やメタンのプルームなどの調査を行う予定。

Ingenuityの大成功に続き、MAGGIEも注目されている。 #NASA #MarsExploration #MAGGIE

Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra – ESA Mars Express

One of my all-time favourite images of Mars is this enhanced colour image captured by ESA's Mars Express orbiter on 17 June 2019. It shows a beautiful slice of the Red Planet stretching from the north polar cap to the northern rim of Hellas Planitia, highlighting the crater surface of Terra Sabaea and Arabia Terra. The original image has a resolution of about 1 km/pixel.

To the north, two craters stand out to me: Lyot (a complex crater in Vastitas Borealis) and Moreux (a smaller but visually darker crater in a geologically complex region of Arabia Terra). Near the centre of frame are a pair of large but shallow craters: Cassini and Tikhonravov. To the south lies Huygens, the largest crater on Mars with a well defined rim.

About the mission

Mars Express was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 2 June 2003 and entered into orbit around Mars in record time on 25 December 2003. It's the second longest lasting Mars orbiter in history after NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Due to its flexibility and importance in the study of Mars, the mission has been repeatedly extended to as far out as 2026, with a further provisional extension to 2028 likely. It's hard to believe that this was the same orbiter that deployed the failed Beagle 2 lander to the Martian surface almost 20 years ago.

#Mars #ESA #MarsExpress #Marsexploration #spaceexploration #astronomy #spacecraft

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission - A Groundbreaking Journey Comes to an End: https://www.reviewspace.info/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-mission-a-groundbreaking-journey-comes-to-an-end

#NASA #MarsExploration #Ingenuity #Perseverance #ScienceNews #AerospaceTechnology #SpaceExploration #Science #TechnologyNews #ReviewSpace

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission - A Groundbreaking Journey Comes to an End: https://www.reviewspace.info/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-mission-a-groundbreaking-journey-comes-to-an-end

#NASA #MarsExploration #Ingenuity #Perseverance #ScienceNews #AerospaceTechnology #SpaceExploration #Science #TechnologyNews #ReviewSpace