Mars Mission

• China successfully lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars: state media

  The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on the Southern Utopia Plain, making China the third space-faring nation after the United States and Russia to land on the Red Planet.

  Science

  May 14, 2021
  
• Saskatchewan scientist leads team helping in Mars sample return mission

  A Canora, Sask. man is helping lead a team of scientists in the decade-long mission to bring rock and soil samples back to Earth from Mars.

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2021
  
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• NASA launches Mars rover to look for ancient life on red planet

  The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

  World

  Jul 30, 2020
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• NASA Mars rover to blast off Thursday, chasing China and United Arab Emirates

  The U.S. space agency's $2.4 billion Perseverance mission is expected to reach Mars next February.

  Science

  Jul 30, 2020
• China successfully launches fast-tracked mission to land rover on Mars

  The Tianwen-1 launch comes as the United States plans to launch Perseverance, its most sophisticated Mars rover ever, next week.

  Science

  Jul 23, 2020
• Spacecraft gets ready for Mars launch: NASA, China and UAE hope to find signs of life

  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.

  Science

  Jul 13, 2020
• Edmonton scientist part of NASA Mars 2020 rover mission

  An Edmonton scientist will help with NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

  News

  Feb 20, 2020
• NASA’s InSight landing bucks an expensive trend of probes smashing into Mars

  Humans have an expensive history of crashing probes into Mars, where only about half of all missions have succeeded.

  Science

  Nov 26, 2018
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• NASA’s InSight probe lands on Mars to measure ‘marsquakes’

  NASA scientists have successfully landed their InSight probe on Mars, where the robot will measure seismic activity under the planet's surface.

  World

  Nov 26, 2018
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• Quebec scientists preparing medical database for astronauts heading to Mars

  It might be another decade before human beings touch down on the our neighbouring planet, but Canadian researchers are helping to get things off the ground.

  Canada

  Jul 30, 2018