We tend to think of Mars as similar to Earth, and in many ways that is true. It's relatively small and rocky. It has an atmosphere and recognisable geological features. We can identify the composition of its rocks, study its weather patterns , and detect seismic activity .
But Mars is also very unlike Earth, too. And this is never clearer than when looking at photographs of the Red Planet taken by its rovers and orbiters. What we take for granted on Earth can turn into breathtakingly alien phenomena just a planet away.
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The Music of Mars: Rising LA Artist Captures Sound of the Future
LOS ANGELES , May 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world buzzes from NASA and SpaceXs' manned launch to the ISS this week, one of Planet-Z's rising and ambitious LA creatives has crafted a new album for the event. Zahid Pasha's project, FM2M celebrates the next generation of Space Exploration and dives into the idea of "home" in a genre-bending and contemporary "Space-Centric" universe of his own.
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Let's just say the last "M" stands for Mars. Pretty much anything the listener thinks of from there would be acceptable.
New Marsquake study could shatter theories on how Mars was born | Space
A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has revealed tantalizing details about Mars ' seismic activity for the very first time in one new study. These results could make or break theories surrounding the Red Planet's origins and provide details about its composition.
The fourth rock from the sun might be one of the closest worlds to us — swinging between distances of 34 million and 249 million miles (55 million and 400 million kilometers), dependent on its position and Earth's position relative to our star — but it is often much safer and less expensive to investigate the Red Planet through simulations on Earth, rather than launch a spacecraft .
On This Day, May 30: Mariner 9 launched toward Mars - UPI.com
In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at age 19. She had been convicted of wearing men's clothing. Advertisement
In 1783, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first daily newspaper published in the United States.
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In 1943, the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu off the Alaskan coast were retaken by U.S. forces after being occupied by Japanese troops .
In 1971, the unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on a mission to gather scientific data on Mars. It was the first spacecraft to orbit a planet other than Earth.
Many things are taking place:
What SpaceX's historic NASA flight means for Elon Musk's Mars goals
Elon Musk is never one to shy away from setting ambitious goals. In fact, the billionaire's most ambitious goal might just be the one he often talks about the most: going to Mars .
On Wednesday, Musk and his private spacecraft company, SpaceX, nearly checked off a historic milestone that could put him another step closer to one day achieving that goal. That milestone would be SpaceX's first-ever manned space mission. The company was set to launch two NASA astronauts on a flight taking them to the International Space Station, but SpaceX postponed the launch at the last minute due to inclement weather.
On Mars, mud flows like lava | Space | EarthSky
Scientists in Europe have found that some features on Mars that were thought to be lava flows may actually have been flows of muddy water.
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We know that Mars used to be volcanically active in the past. The planet is dotted with enormous now-dormant volcanoes, and the remains of old lava flows can still be seen today. Now, it seems, some of those lava flows weren’t composed of lava at all, but rather mud, according to researchers in Europe.
The intriguing peer-reviewed results were published in the journal Nature Geoscience on May 20, 2020.
Mars Doesn't Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here's a Map - Universe Today
One of the striking things about Mars is all of the evidence, clearly visible on its surface, that it harbored liquid water. Now, all that water is gone, and in fact, liquid water couldn’t survive on the surface of the Red Planet. Not as the planet is now, anyway.
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Mars has only a thin atmosphere now, and that atmosphere isn’t thick enough to maintain water now. So it must have had a thicker, warmer atmosphere in the past. And that atmosphere could only have persisted if Mars also had a protective magnetosphere.
'International collaboration must to put man on Mars'- The New Indian Express
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BENGALURU: While space scientists even in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have taken cognizance of the need of private sector participation in realising inter-planetary missions, former NASA rocket scientist Anita Sengupta adds to that thought by saying that having humans on Mars would require collaborations beyond national borders.
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