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Meanwhile on Mars: Curiosity rover drove 18 meters further south into the canyon that it's traveling through to reach its next major science waypoint. The ~28 minute drive during sol 4484 (March 18, 2025) took the rover to site 114.918. Attached: DeBayered workspace mosaic, drive data and 2 traverse maps (different scales). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Mars#Curiosity#MSL
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Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) is a mission by JAXA (+ NASA, ESA, CNES & DLR) to survey Mars' 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos. The probe will bring a sample of Phobos to Earth.

2026: Launch
2027: Martian orbit insertion
2027-2031: Quasi Satellite Orbit around Phobos, land and collect samples, survey Deimos
2031: Return to earth

MMX will also deploy a rover named Idéfix, the French name for Dogmatix, Obelix's dog in the comic Asterix🐕.

youtube.com/watch?v=yiS6NdpEL2
mmx.jaxa.jp/en/
#Mars
10/n

Des gens ont imaginé la colonisation de #venus . J'ai cru à une blague au début. Mais non, apparemment, à 50km d'altitude pression et températures sont acceptables.
Faut aimer les montgolfières.
Du coup ça me pose une question: pourquoi la #propagande #technofasciste choisit #mars alors que ça semble plus difficile que Vénus?
Le minerai (sur Vénus avec 93 bars et 400°C ça semble difficile), juste la com qui passe mieux, autre?
#politique #musk #fascisme #spatial #manipulation #ecologie #co2

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#Hera's Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager took this image, shown here in raw form; the Sun's contribution makes Mars appear blue, but that will be later on removed to reveal Mars' spectral response.

The dark spot is Deimos (Δείμος, pronounced [deemos] in modern Greek)

#Deimos#Mars#ESA