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Scientists want a lunar lab to quarantine Mars rocks before they reach Earth

A team of researchers has proposed building a biocontainment laboratory on the Moon to quarantine Mars rocks before any ...
Phys.org

Mars's core evolution: Lab experiments hint at solid inner core formation

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature Communications. Data from NASA's InSight mission has revealed that Mars ...
SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin Completes Mars Science Laboratory Heatshield For NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed production and testing of the heatshield for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The heatshield is half of the large and sophisticated two-part aeroshell ...
Ars Technica

Rocket Lab entered “hero mode” to finish Mars probes—now it’s up to Blue Origin

Two NASA spacecraft built by Rocket Lab are on the road from California to Florida this weekend to begin preparations for launch on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket. These two science probes must ...
Network World

NASA Mars Lab mission gets inflight software upgrade, more specific landing spot

Even as it hurtles towards an August 5 rendezvous with the red planet, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is being fine-tuned for a more precise landing and better operations once it reaches its ...
Business Wire

Rocket Lab Integrating Twin Spacecraft for Mission to Mars for NASA

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced that the two spacecraft ...
Business Insider

I pilot NASA's first and only Mars helicopter. My job can be like a video game, but not the kind with a joystick.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Håvard Grip, who is the chief pilot for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It has been edited for length and ...
Los Angeles Times

Mars rocks are a science prize the U.S. can’t afford to lose

NASA does difficult, inspiring and ambitious things — and it does them, in the immortal words of President Kennedy, because they are hard. NASA’s most ambitious planetary project yet is Mars Sample ...