When you've got troubles, nothing beats stepping back and getting a long-range perspective. In this case, from more than 30 million miles away.
This month three countries plan to send probes to explore Mars, the opening salvo in a space race to the red planet that looks as if it will continue for years to come. The Hope Probe – a project of the United Arab Emirates and the first effort of an Arab nation to visit another planet – is scheduled for launch July 15. China's Tianwen-1 goes next, sometime between July 20 and July 25. It will be that country's first visit to the planet.
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Mars Had Landslide-Powered Mega-Tsunamis | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Billions of years ago, a giant landslide cascaded down the slopes of the largest mountain in the solar system—Mars’ Olympus Mons. When all this material fell into the water of Mars’ (probable) ancient ocean, it created a towering tsunami stretching between 25 and 43 miles long that crashed against the shore of the planet’s northern hemisphere.
A new study in Planetary and Space Science identifies the remnants of this long-ago event. The landslide-induced tsunami would have required a large body of water, yet more evidence for the case in favor of the existence of a long-disappeared Martian ocean.
With first spacecraft to Red Planet, United Arab Emirates poised to join elite Mars club |
The Hope satellite will orbit Mars in a way that enables it to see the planet's surface at all times of day.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a small Persian Gulf nation, is on the cusp of a big breakthrough: joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and India in the elite club of nations that have successfully sent spacecraft to Mars. On 15 July, the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)—also known as the Hope satellite—is set to launch on a Japanese rocket, arriving at the Red Planet in February 2021.
K-pop Top Hits With Soju; Upcoming Missions To Mars | Here & Now
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Making the case for slingshotting past Venus on the way to Mars
The researchers suggest that a mission that includes a Venus stopover would provide benefits both to NASA and the astronauts aboard such craft. They note that stopping by Venus would greatly reduce fuel costs because the spacecraft could use Venus's gravity as a springboard to Mars. They also note that taking the Venus to Mars route would allow the spacecraft to return to Earth sooner should something go wrong.
Teaching Space With NASA – Exploring Mars Science With the Perseverance Rover Workshop | NASA/JPL
Pandemic mars Trump's GOP convention plans | TheHill
The state of Florida has experienced a significant surge in COVID-19 that shows little sign of slowing, and five GOP senators already have said they do not plan to attend the events in Jacksonville, where Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech formally accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
Republicans describe a convention that is consumed by unknowns following Trump's decision to shift some festivities from Charlotte, N.C., to Jacksonville after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said plans would have to be scaled back because of the pandemic's danger.
Astronauts bound for Mars should swing by Venus first, scientists say | Space
The roads of human spaceflight all seem to lead to Mars . For decades now, it's been the logical next step after the moon.
But if you're an astronaut or a cosmonaut on your way to or from Mars, you might make a surprising pit stop along the way: Venus .
A flight to (or from) Mars can happen more quickly and cheaply if it "involves a Venus flyby on the way to or on the way home from Mars," Noam Izenberg, a planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University, told Space.com.
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