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Scientists peer inside Mars to measure layers of Red Planet | Space
Marsquakes recorded by NASA's InSight mission offer the first direct evidence of key boundaries in the Martian interior, which could help planetary scientists understand how rocky planets are formed, a new study suggests.
The spacecraft landed at Elysium Planitia in November 2018 on a quest to probe the poorly understood interior of Mars . The thickness of the Red Planet crust and the depth of its core, for example, had only been estimated with models before. InSight allows researchers to check their models for the first time.
Corn Moon, Mars won't practice social distancing this coming weekend
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ROANOKE, Va. – For those that follow the moon's names each month, you may be confused as to why September's full moon is not called the Harvest Moon. Like most things in 2020, this month's full moon name isn't normal either.
The Harvest Moon is the name given to the full moon that comes closest to the fall equinox. However, since the full moon happens so early in September this year, it is given a different name. 2020′s Harvest Moon happens on October 1st.
Mars ahead! UAE's Hope spacecraft spots Red Planet for 1st time | Space
The United Arab Emirates' first-ever interplanetary mission is well on its way to Mars and has the photos to prove it.
The UAE's Hope probe launched from Japan toward Mars on July 19, representing the first time an Arab nation has gone beyond Earth's orbit. Now, the spacecraft is already one fifth of the way through its long journey, according to a statement from the program.
"The Hope probe is officially 100 million km [60 million miles] into its journey to the Red Planet," Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, prime minister of the UAE, wrote on Twitter on Monday (Aug. 24). "Mars, as demonstrated in the image captured by the probe's star tracker, is ahead of us, leaving Saturn and Jupiter behind. The Hope probe is expected to arrive to Mars in February 2021."
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Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was | MIT Technology Review
But there's no complete consensus on what Mars really looked like in the past. "The argument over the climate of early Mars is an old one" going back 40 years, says Anna Grau Galofre of Arizona State University. She's the lead author of a new study published in Nature Geoscience that upends those dreams of a watery Mars, presenting new findings that suggest the planet's ancient landscape looked closer to Antarctica than the tropics.
The new study focuses on the history of valleys located in the southern highlands of Mars. "Past work has pointed at rivers as the origin of the Martian valley networks," says Grau Galofre, but her study identifies for the first time a fraction of systems with characteristics "typical of subglacial channels." That is, it was melting ice, not flowing water, that dug out these valleys nearly 3.8 billion years ago.
Mars Now Brighter Than Any Star In The Night Sky
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - As we near Mars' close approach on October 6th of this year it has crossed a threshold. It is now more luminous than the brightest start in our night sky Sirius and will be brighter for the next couple of months. In fact, by the time we get to the closest approach the only things in our solar system that will be brighter than Mars are the sun, the moon and Venus! Come October 6th, Mars will be just under 39 million miles away from Earth in its orbit.
Mars rises between 9 and 10PM and will be bright red. You can see it with the naked eye, but a telescope should help with the tremendous viewing. Look near the Pisces constellation or the eastern horizon shortly after 10PM each night.
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