One is blinding white and the other a dull, dusty red. But both are cold, barren worlds, difficult to reach and full of tantalizing scientific mysteries.
And lessons from the first world, Antarctica, may be vital for those who want to be the first humans on the second, Mars , according to Stan Love, a former NASA astronaut who now supports the agency's astronaut office. Those lessons, Love said in a meeting last month, stem from a decades-long U.S. government-funded program to search for atmospherically toasted space rocks on the brilliant ice of Antarctica .
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The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) orbiting Mars has made the first detection of greenline dayglow around a planet other than the Earth. A thin, green glow is seen by astronauts to surround the Earth at approximately 90 kilometers altitude as a result of sunlight interacting with molecules in the atmosphere.
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If you have been watching Mars in the predawn sky, it continues to grow brighter and redder each month.
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Remembering back to last year, Mars did not outshine Jupiter, unlike 2018. In 2018, it was brighter than all the stars and Jupiter. Because of the change in appearance, early stargazers named Mars the god of war: sometimes the god rests and other times the god is fierce.
So, what causes this dramatic swing in brightness? Planet size is not the reason for the brightness, as in the case of Jupiter, our largest planet. Mars is not a big planet; it is slightly larger than half of Earth’s size.
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Many things are taking place:
Sols 2803-2804: A Drive to a View – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
As much as the science team loves seeing Mars up close, sometimes the view isn't quite as pretty for the engineering team. As the rover gets closer to hills or cliffs, like "Bloodstone Hill" that we just left, we encounter boulders that have rolled downslope (as they are wont to do), creating visual obstacles in our path. It's also the case that sometimes Mars makes bouldery landscapes, like when we drove up towards Vera Rubin Ridge. The path ahead is very similar to that.
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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.
Why go 'horse and buggy' to Mars when we could go supersonic? | TheHill
As it was during the recent launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, carrying the Crew Dragon and its two-person crew toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station, the entire space community and much of the worldwide general public are truly excited about the planned July 22 launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
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But, along with that excitement and promise comes a serious and potentially troubling disconnect. When Perseverance launches atop the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 541 booster , if you squint your eyes just right, it will seem exactly the same as when Viking 1 was launched on Aug. 20, 1975, to touch down on the Martian surface on July 20, 1976.
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Want to learn how to survive on Mars? Look to Antarctica. https://t.co/PxF57medbV https://t.co/lMSX78OfSp SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Mon Jun 29 13:41:35 +0000 2020
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