A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should wait: Artist concept of settlement on Mars. NASA Transforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is …
Methane on Mars: a new discovery or just a lot of hot air?: Methane detected at Mars' Gale Crater (the centre picture). Kevin Gill/Flickr, CC BY-SA The discovery of life on Mars would get pretty much everyone excited. But the scientists hunting for it would probably be happy no matter what the outcome of their …
From volcanoes on Mars to scarps on Mercury – how places on other worlds get their names: The solar system's largest volcano Olympus Mons on Mars, seen by Viking 1. NASA/JPL The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is set to fly by “Ultima Thule”, the object in the Kuiper belt of …
NASA open sources its Mars rover, Rome adopts LibreOffice, and more news: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at NASA’s open source mars rover, Rome’s latest open source efforts, two new research projects, and more. NASA open sources design for a Martian rover Do you want to build …
TEMPLES ON MARS – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-09-24 19:30:00 in United Kingdom We are happy to welcome to the Parish this September, London prog-rock powerhouseTemples on MarsFormed of ex-members of Agent, Starseed and The Spindle Sect. Featuring James Donaldson on guitar/vocals, Gerald Gill on Guitar, Daz Carikas on Bass Guitar and …
Rover detects ancient organic material on Mars – and it could be trace of past life: The Curiosity rover on Mars has been busy. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS It was to a great fanfare of publicity that researchers announced they had found evidence for past life on Mars in 1996. What they claimed they had discovered was a …
Curiosity Rover Spots Weird Tube-Like Structures on Mars: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity captured this image on Jan. 2, 2018, with its Mars Hand Lens Imager . Using an onboard focusing process, the robot created this product by merging two to eight images previously taken by MAHLI, which is located on the turret at the end …
Our rover could discover life on Mars – here’s what it would take to prove it: Mars seen by Viking. NASA / USGS Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. And in just two years’ time, there’s a big opportunity to …
What could explain the mystery of how land formed on Mars without much water: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, Author provided The surface of Mars, with its dune flows, gullies and slope movements, is the result of sediment being transported downwards in the recent past as well as today. But this “mass wasting”, typically caused by flows …
How a new orbital moon station could take us to Mars and beyond: Full moon photographed from Earth. Gregory H. Revera/wikimedia, CC BY-SA The dream of a human habitat in orbit about the moon came a step closer on September 27, when NASA and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) signed up to a common vision …
NASA: No, we don’t have child slave colonies on Mars: Alex Jones has managed to provoke NASA into responding to a bizarre conspiracy theory that they have a child slave colony on Mars. Nathan Rousseau Smith reports. : Weird News Have you tried: Travelling to South Africa?
Weird Crater Discovered on the Surface of Mars: Reported by the Daily Mail, NASA is currently investigating a strange mark on the South Polar layered deposits of the red planet and, while it's currently believed to be an impact crater, the icy surface can make accurate assessments of the terrain difficult. An image from the …
Mars investigating Skittles said to be intended for cattle: A mysterious Skittles spill on a rural highway in Wisconsin is taking another twist, with Mars Inc. saying it doesn't know why the discarded candy might have been headed to become cattle feed. The case began when a Wisconsin sheriff posted on Facebook this week that …
How feasible are Elon Musk’s plans to settle on Mars? A planetary scientist explains: The health of astronauts will be one of the main challenges for Musk. D Mitriy/wikimedia, CC BY-ND Mars is the future. It’s after all NASA’s current overarching goal to send humans to the Red Planet. But even as early as the …
Weird 2 hour ago 7:30 a.m.Morse code found on Mars?: So when they posted a photo entitled “Martian Morse Code” last week about peculiar-looking snapshots of Mars' topography, the Internet exploded. The image, taken on Feb. 6 by NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Mars' dark dunes. : …
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