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It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but #RelativitySpace has announced plans for a mission to #Mars carrying a NASA payload: #Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will launch a Mars orbiter carrying four NASA-built instruments.

How the #Viking1 #Mars landing 50 years ago #OTD was covered on U.S. TV news then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDiiPhNs2Xw

50 years ago #OTD NASA's #Viking1 landed on #Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1 - here is part of the first image sent from the surface. The camera was a horizontally rotating scanner moving left to right: the early vertical columns are brighter because dust from touch-down hadn't settled yet.

Organics in #meteorites: In preparation for ESA’s search for life on #Mars with #RosalindFranklin, researchers from

#marswaterhistory

Iron microbialites from an acidic Martian analog (Río Tinto, Spain)—Implications for finding life on Mars: #Mars: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=8237

Expanding Mars’ lithologic diversity - discovery of a garnet-bearing clast in NWA 8171: #Mars: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/scientists-discover-new-rock-type-on-mars

Stratigraphy Preserved on the Jezero Crater Rim Reveals Repeated Impacts on Early Mars: #Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient #Mars #Impacts: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasas-perseverance-rover-reads-record-of-ancient-mars-impacts/

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More data from the #Mars flyby by the #Psyche spacecraft in May have been received: #asteroid Psyche in 2029.

50 years ago #OTD the #Viking 1 Orbiter with its precious Lander cargo entered into orbit around #Mars: https://www.facebook.com/VikingMarsMission/posts/pfbid034yTJzsyT5ZrNHgsFeNtxrvFDRxRpFQyQfB344patQDdUr7JBCnJZgPBk9sdSuhhNl - the landing came a month later.

Turbulence-coupled Electrodynamics of the Martian Year 34 Global Dust Storm on #Mars: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae69db -> UAH researcher finds martian dust storms may generate atmospheric electrical conditions that could impact Mars missions: https://www.uah.edu/news/news/uah-researcher-finds-martian-dust-storms-may-generate-atmospheric-electrical-conditions-could-impact-mars-missions

Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments - a study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors: #Antarctica #Moon #Mars

Seismic evidence for a melt-depleted lower crust and transcrustal magmatism on #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02907-5 -> New evidence suggests vast hidden magma systems inside Mars: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-24-new-evidence-suggests-vast-hidden-magma-systems-inside-mars

Miniature Dungey-like cycle at Mars: #Mars: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/maven/nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars/

Direct Detection of Hydrogen Reveals a New Macroscopic Crustal Water Reservoir on Early #Mars: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL121841 -> What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars: https://www.psi.ch/en/news/media-releases/what-a-dry-meteorite-tells-us-about-water-on-mars

Hey, #Mars is back in the sky, kind of: during this dawn's #NLC observations - #Pleiades and got it photographically (1 second at f/2.8 and ISO 800) but couldn't see either object naked-eye.

A consolidated Mössbauer spectrum for undisturbed soils from #Gusev Crater, Mars: #Spirit Rover landed on #Mars, ECU's Paulo de Souza has made a remarkable new discovery using data from the historic mission.

Thermal Detectability of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars - A Comparative Analysis for the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) Project / Subsurface Water Ice Mapping on Mars - A Probabilistic Approach: #Mars: Resources and Science Targets": https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/PSJ-250131-01

Spatially distributed complex #organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in #Jezero crater, #Mars: #Raman spectrometer onboard the #Perseverance rover, we report the heterogeneous distribution of organic carbon within mudstones located in an ancient river valley on Mars. Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater thus far, and, to our knowledge, the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars."

Artistic visions shape and respond to #Mars missions: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2622471123 -> "decades before humans might actually travel through interplanetary space, artistic visions continue to help nurture those aspirations."