Enlarge NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, transmitting telemetry information and the first images of its landing site. A low-resolution driving-camera image shows a field of dust-covered rocks, with the unmistakable shadow of the rover hardware. The early images are so fresh that you can still see the dust kicked […]
Enlarge / While we know of locations with ice on Mars, not all of them are located in places we’d want to land. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) Over the last couple of decades, plans to return to the Moon for longer stays or to go to Mars have gradually moved away from sci-fi tinged “what […]
Enlarge / A selfie taken by the InSight Lander. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of the agency’s InSight lander, the hardware was supposed to be placed deep enough to avoid the influence of Mars’ weather, […]
Expand / The Pathfinder rover took this picture. It did not require oxygen, despite the poor, fleshy people who’d love to trace its route. (charge: NASA) If people are ever likely to go to Mars, they might well have to generate some important resources while they’re there to be able to endure long enough to […]
Are ’all in the mood to get a SUPER creepy narrative, or that which?? Before this week, the officials at Utah who were monitoring and celebrating bighorn sheep at a really distant region of the country found an odd, triangular-shaped metallic construction one of the rural, very unforgiving mountains of the back country. Connected: WTF?! […]
Recently, we have become aware of plenty of plain water on Earth that is deep beneath ice. Sometimes, we have observed this nervously, because it is deep beneath ice sheets, in which it might permeate the sheets’ slip to the ocean. But we have also found lakes which were trapped under ice close to the […]
Expand / scientists mixed chitin–a natural polymer present in abundance in arthropods, in addition to fish scales–using a mineral which reproduces the properties of Martian soil to produce a workable new substance for building shelters and tools on Mars. (charge: Javier G. Fernandez) Space aficionados that dream about a single day colonizing Mars should grapple […]