Martian Terrain as Viewed in AI4Mars: Three images from the tool called AI4Mars show different kinds of Martian terrain as seen by NASA's Curiosity rover. By drawing borders around terrain features and assigning one of four labels to them, you can help train an algorithm that will automatically identify terrain types for Curiosity's rover planners. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
Using an online tool to label Martian terrain types, you can train an artificial intelligence algorithm that could improve the way engineers guide the Curiosity rover.
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See Mars rise with the 'half' moon early Saturday morning | Space
The last-quarter moon will make a close approach to the Red Planet in the predawn sky on Saturday (June 13), providing a celestial treat for early birds and night owls.
If you're up before the sun on Saturday morning, look to the southeast horizon to find Mars snuggled up close to the waning moon, which reaches last-quarter phase that morning at 2:24 a.m. EDT (0624 GMT).
Mars and the moon will be in conjunction — meaning they share the same celestial longitude — tonight (June 12) at 7:55 p.m. EDT (2355 GMT), according to the skywatching site In-The-Sky.org . But for skywatchers in the United States, the pair won't be visible at that time. In New York City, for example, Mars rises on Saturday at 1:16 a.m. local time, and the moon rises about 20 minutes later.
How Mars may have lost several systems of rings over billions of years
Mars is normally known as the Red Planet while Saturn is famous for its glamorous system of rings. Now, a new study from the SETI Institute and Purdue University suggests that Mars may have also once had its own planetary rings.
The two small moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, resemble asteroids more than they do larger moons such as our own natural satellite. Astronomers generally believe that this pair of irregularly-shaped bodies are asteroids that were captured by the gravitational pull of the Red Planet.
New NASA thermal images of Mars' moon, Phobos
Appearing like a lumpy pieces of Willy Wonka candy, these fresh images of Mars' biggest moon, Phobos, paint an eyecatching picture of the lumpy, odd-shaped satellite using NASA's Odyssey orbiter's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
Phobos is the larger and innermost of the Red Planet's two moons, the second being the smaller object, Deimos. It circles Mars just 3,700 miles above its surface and loops around the planet three times per day, crossing the entire sky in just under four hours. It's the closest moon to its home planet than any other heavenly body in the solar system.
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Mars 2020 launch slips three days - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — A launch vehicle processing "hiccup" has pushed back next month's launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission by three days.
NASA Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed the delay in a presentation to a joint meeting of the National Academies' Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board (SSB) June 9. "We had a little bit of a hiccup with ULA and the launch vehicle processing, so we're incurring a three-day delay," he said.
Architects are planning a Martian city for the desert outside Dubai - CNN Style
Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming... on Mars? - Universe Today
Once the stuff of science fiction, the possibility that humans could establish a permanent settlement on Mars now appears to be a genuine possibility. While doing so represents a major challenge and there are many hurdles that still need to be overcome, the challenge itself is inspiring some truly creative solutions. But what is especially interesting is how these same solutions can also address problems here on Earth.
In 2015, Mulyani founded Mars City Design (MSD), an innovation platform where teams from around the world are able to come together with industry experts and share their ideas. Every year, the challenge has a different theme, but all are focused on the bigger question of how housing and urban designs can allow humans to not only survive on Mars, but thrive!
Sols 2790-2791: Capturing the Sights on the Road – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Akin to a road trip where you want to make good time but do not want to miss the notable sights along the way, Curiosity is fitting in scientific sightseeing along her drive east toward sulfate-bearing horizons identified in Mt. Sharp long before Curiosity started exploring Gale crater in 2012. The stop-worthy attraction on Sol 2790 was an apparent landslide, which littered the slopes up to the "Greenheugh pediment" with a variety of dark gray blocks from that bedrock layer.
These blog updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public.
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