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President Biden Should Push for the Human Exploration of Mars - Scientific American
The triumphant landing of the Perseverance rover has inspired all Americans, and indeed much of the world. President Biden should follow it up by launching a program to send humans to Mars.
These are questions that thinking men and women have wondered about for thousands of years. They can only be resolved by sending humans.
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Some say that sending humans to Mars is a task for the far future, far beyond our abilities. In fact, the means to do such a mission are close at hand.
The Menu for Mars: Designing a Deep Space Food System | NASA
NASA engineer teaches Curran Middle School students about Mars missions | KGET 17
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The next generation of potential NASA scientists got an up-close look at our missions to Mars with the help of an expert.
More than 100 students at Curran Middle School participated in a special Zoom seminar on Friday with NASA Engineer Miguel San Martin, who has been part of every Mars rover mission to date.
“I’m looking forward to talking with your students. It’s always fun seeing the next generation of engineers, scientists and astronauts,” he said during the seminar.
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Mars' Massive Olympus Mons Volcano Still Puzzles Planetary Scientists
Orbital view of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars, the largest known volcano in the solar system. It ... [+] measures 375 miles across at its base, and the walls of the volcano tower 15 miles above the plains of Mars. | Location: Olympus Mons, Mars. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
A half century from now, one of Elon Musk's current space competitors may be running tours to Olympus Mons, our solar system's largest known volcano. This truly extraordinary landform mass in Mars' western hemisphere is without compare in terms of its sheer height and mass.
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter to take flight and 5 other top space and science stories this week
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The Water on Mars Vanished. This Might Be Where It Went. - The New York Times
Today, most of Mars is as dry as a desert except for ice deposits in its polar regions. Where did the rest of the water go?
Some of it disappeared into space. Water molecules, pummeled by particles of solar wind, broke apart into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and those, especially the lighter hydrogen atoms, sped out of the atmosphere, lost to outer space.
But most of the water, a new study concludes, went down, sucked into the red planet's rocks. And there it remains, trapped within minerals and salts. Indeed, as much as 99 percent of the water that once flowed on Mars could still be there, the researchers estimated in a paper published this week in the journal Science.
NASA primed for historic flight of experimental Mars helicopter – Spaceflight Now
NASA’s Perseverance rover will soon release a small rotorcraft onto the surface of Mars and drive a safe distance away to observe a series of historic test flights in the ultra-thin Martian atmosphere, which could begin around April 8, officials said this week.
The Mars Helicopter, named Ingenuity, has been stowed underneath the deck of the Perseverance rover for nearly one year. Ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center installed the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft onto the belly of the rover April 6, 2020, during preparations for Perseverance’s launch last July.
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