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by Giorgio Bianciardi, Vice President UAI and Astrobiologist – University of Siena …and finally also “authoritative voices” intervene This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

A sandstorm, which began just over a week ago, has outgrown North America, endangering the safety of the Opportunity rover.At the moment the rover, which depends on sunlight to recharge its batteries, has suspended all activity to save energy while waiting for the storm to end.It is certainly not the first time that Opportunity faces a similar challenge, but in this case we are just… Read More »Opportunity on “stand by” during sandstorm

(Read also https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7154) NASA has called yesterday a press conference to announce the amazing discovery of ancient organic material on Mars as well as the discovery of seasonal cycles of methane emissions related to the hottest periods of the Martian year!I am more and more amazed to see how NASA treats the public opinion as a bunch of forgetful people to whom they can repeat… Read More »NASA discovers ancient organic material and “mysterious” methane on Mars

ExoMars TGO took this photo of the south polar cap of Mars on May 13 of this year.Please read the description given by ESA regarding the composition of the ice visible in this photo.While NASA has always stated that Mars’ south polar cap is composed primarily of dry ice, here ESA is talking exclusively about water ice!Here is a small demonstration of how important it… Read More »Layered deposits in the south pole of Mars

Tonight at 6pm Italian time….We’ll see what they have to announce. 😉 This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

After an initial enthusiasm, then partially denied, finally the team of Curiosity was able to refine the technique to collect samples produced by the drilling instrument. Finally the internal analysis laboratory (SAM) has received enough material to perform the mineralogical analysis whose results will arrive soon… This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.