Mars

The Chinese have landed on Mars! The China National Space Administration recently  published photos taken by cameras attached to the rover, which showed the obstacle-avoidance equipment and solar panels on the vehicle, as well as the texture of the Martian surface. Named after a mythical Chinese god of fire, Zhurong drove down to the surface […]

Last month saw two groundbreaking milestones for Filipinos in terms of expeditions into space. First, that Gregorio Villar, a Filipino working as a landing systems engineer in NASA, played a crucial part in the Perseverance rover’s successful landing on Mars. Second, Filipino engineers were triumphant in launching the Maya-2 nano-satellite from the International Space Station […]

The last few weeks saw social media echoing in cheers as NASA’s Perseverance rover made a historic landing on Mars after almost seven months of galactic travel. Proof of Perseverance touching down came by way of crystal-clear photos showing the surface of the Red Planet.  We stared both in awe and in wonder: what would it be like to roam […]