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[Mars 2020] Destination Mars : guidebook n°3
Once no more than a faint orange dot in the sky, in the space of less than a century Mars has become a keen focus of study. Its ancient river beds, outflow channels and giant...
News SciencesFebruary 12, 2021 -
ESA Mars orbiters support NASA Perseverance...
TGO will relay important data from Perseverance to Earth as soon as four hours after landing while Mars Express is monitoring the local conditions at the landing site, Jezero...
News SciencesFebruary 11, 2021 -
MARS 2020 MISSION - WATCH THE LANDING OF THE...
Thursday 18 February, just before 10:00 p.m. CET, the Perseverance rover will set down in Jezero Crater, an impact basin 45 kilometres across, home to an ancient river delta that...
SciencesFebruary 9, 2021 -
ESA welcomes positive review for Mars Sample...
An ambitious campaign by NASA and ESA to collect samples from the Red Planet and return them to Earth has been praised by an Independent Review Board set up to review the multi-...
News SciencesNovember 10, 2020 -
MARS 2020 MISSION LAUNCH, PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND...
SciencesJuly 30, 2020 -
Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover...
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission.
News SciencesJuly 29, 2020 -
[CNESMAG] Exploring life's origins:the...
CNESMAG 85 is now available!
News SciencesJuly 24, 2020 -
363RD SESSION OF CNES BOARD OF DIRECTORS GIVES GO...
Friday 10 July, CNES’s Board of Directors convened for its 363rd session at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. At today’s meeting, the Board gave the go-ahead to engage...
Institutional affairsJuly 10, 2020 -
PERSEVERANCE ROVER - ALL SET TO LIFT-OFF FOR MARS
Tuesday 30 June, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, gave a joint briefing about NASA’s...
SciencesJune 30, 2020 -
NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of...
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
The Mars 2020 rover has a new name
Perseverance will land at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.
News SciencesMarch 6, 2020 -
Jezero Crater: Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five-year search, during which details of more than 60 candidate locations on...
News SciencesDecember 4, 2018 -
French-U.S. space cooperation, meeting with JPL...
SciencesMarch 28, 2018 -
“Inventing the future of space” CNES’s signature...
Ahead of the 52nd International Paris Air Show that will be opening its doors Monday 19 June at Le Bourget, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall gave a conference for the national and...
Institutional affairsJune 14, 2017 -
Science Programmes Committee Meeting focuses on...
A meeting of CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) was held at CNES headquarters in Paris on Wednesday, 31 May 2017. The CPS advises the CNES Board of Directors on matters...
Sciences, Institutional affairsMay 31, 2017 -
CNES and NASA sign cooperation agreement on Mars...
Tuesday 16 June at the 51st International Paris Air Show, CNES and NASA signed a cooperation agreement covering the SuperCam instrument for the Mars 2020 mission.
News SciencesJune 16, 2015 -
Jean-Yves Le Gall: “In 2015, CNES will be making...
Monday 5 January, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall delivered his New Year wishes to members of the French and international press in the Salle de l’Espace at Paris Les Halles....
News Ariane, Observation, Sciences, Telecommunications, Defence, Institutional affairsDecember 11, 2014 -
CNES science review and outlook : Rosetta – ATV...
For its post-summer-recess press conference, CNES trained the spotlight on science missions to which it is contributing that have been making the news in recent months: Rosetta,...
News SciencesSeptember 18, 2014