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Nasa's Perseverance to UAE's Hope, why humans have eyes on harsh Mars

The timing is not a coincidence. It's driven by celestial mechanics. At their closest, the Earth (third planet from the Sun) and Mars (fourth planet) are "merely" 56-65 million km apart

Mars Perseverance rover's giant parachute carried secret message from Earth

Engineers wanted an unusual pattern in the nylon fabric to know how the parachute was oriented during descent. Turning it into a secret message was "super fun," he said Tuesday

NASA releases Perseverance Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'

The quality was so good - and the images so breathtaking - that members of the rover team said they felt like they were riding along

Watch: When Nasa's Perseverance Rover landed safely on Mars

NASA rover sends first colour images of Mars, a high-resolution selfie too

NASAs Perseverance rover has sent some stunning photos of the Red Planet, including a high-resolution colour selfie taken during its landing

Nasa's Mars mission 2021: Watch Perseverance land on Mars tonight online

Nasa's Mars mission 2021: Here's all you need to know about Nasa Perseverance landing date and time in India and across the world, online live stream, and other details

Potential life on Mars likely lived miles below the planet's surface: Study

They showed that the conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been ubiquitous on ancient Mars

Mars to be opposite, closest to Sun on October 13

Planet Mars will be opposite and closest to the Sun in the sky on October 13.On that date, Mars will be at opposition -- opposite the Sun in the sky. Earth will be situated directly between Mars and the Sun. As a result, Mars will rise as the Sun sets and sets as the Sun rises, according to Sky & Telescope.Opposition -- the most significant Martian date on stargazers' calendars -- is also when the planet is at its brightest and near its maximum apparent size in telescopes. Because of the shapes and orientations of the planets' orbits, however, Mars and Earth were actually closest on Tuesday, October 6, separated by just 62 million kilometres, said Sky & Telescope.For Mars, it is more than 160 times farther than the Moon. The planet would not be this near us again until 2035.Mars oppositions occur at roughly 26-month intervals when Earth catches up to Mars as the planets circle the Sun.This year's opposition is special because it occurs close to when Mars reaches the point .

Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars: NASA

Dozens of controls on pop-up menus allow you to customize not just what you see - from faraway to right "on board" a spacecraft - but also how you see it

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight

Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check

Data from NASA's InSight lander used for deep Mars measurements

Using data from NASA's InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to the core of the red planet

SpaceX's Mars Starship spacecraft prototype soars on test flight

A prototype of SpaceX's Mars Starship spacecraft got off the ground in a test flight, marking a small step that could one day prove to be a giant leap towards the human exploration of the Red Planet.

Nasa's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission launched to Red Planet

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth.

Nasa's Perseverance Mars mission: Sherlock's probe, & an Indian connection

One of the boldest interplanetary missions, the Perseverance rover to Mars could pave the way for manned missions of the future

China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission takes off to answer 'question about heavens'

Eight spacecraft - American, European and Indian - are either orbiting Mars or on its surface with other missions underway or planned

With Tianwen-1 China aims orbiting, landing, roving on Mars in one mission

Approved by Chinese authorities in January 2016, Tianwen translates to "questions about the heavens"

First crewed round-trip to Mars possible by 2030, says NASA's Bridenstine

NASA will use advanced propulsion systems to enable a faster journey to the Red Planet while limiting radiation exposure for its astronauts

UAE's Hope Probe on course to Mars after successful launch from Japan

The craft is expected to reach Mars in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates 50th year of its formation

With 'Hope Probe' UAE aims to be newest entrant in crowded Martian orbit

The Hope Probe aims to provide the first-ever planet-wide, 24x7 pictures of Mars' atmospheric dynamics and weather

Getting closer to the neighbour

Perseverance remains crucial in exploring the mysteries around Mars