The European Space Agency's Mars Express captured a dramatic image of dust (at right) over the ... [+] Martian landscape.
A new study by another spacecraft, the European Space Agency Mars Express, suggests that atmospheric escape to space happens quicker when the planet has dust storms and when the planet swings slightly closer to the sun in its elliptical orbit. Two fresh studies used multi-year sets of data obtained by a spectroscopy instrument on the spacecraft that examines the characteristics of the Martian atmosphere.
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New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars' Water – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space.
Billions of years ago, according to geological evidence, abundant water flowed across Mars and collected into pools, lakes, and deep oceans. New NASA-funded research shows a substantial quantity of its water – between 30 and 99% – is trapped within minerals in the planet’s crust, challenging the current theory that due to the Red Planet’s low gravity, its water escaped into space.
Part of Wright brothers' 1st airplane on NASA's Mars chopper
NASA's experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday. The helicopter, named Ingenuity, hitched a ride to the red planet with the Perseverance rover, arriving last month.
Ingenuity will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet no sooner than April 8. It will mark a "Wright brothers' moment," noted Bobby Braun, director for planetary science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The mysterious core of Mars is on the large side, NASA's InSight lander data suggests | Space
NASA's InSight lander has spent more than a full Martian year stationed on the Red Planet, and scientists are pleased with the spacecraft's observations to date, despite the challenges Mars has posed.
Although the safe arrival of NASA's Perseverance rover last month has captured huge amounts of attention, it's worth remembering that the agency has two other robots successfully operating on the Red Planet — the Curiosity rover and the stationary InSight lander.
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Musk says SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030 | Reuters
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The private space company had raised about $850 million in equity financing in February even as a prototype of its Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt after a high-altitude test launch.
The SN9 prototype was a test model of the heavy-lift rocket being developed by SpaceX to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars.
NASA's Perseverance Drives on Mars' Terrain for First Time | NASA
Mars House, First Digital Home to be Sold on the NFT Marketplace | ArchDaily
Mars House is a light sculpture , with LED substrate extending to the pool, throughout the entire perimeter of the house. All of the furniture elements are designed with tempered glass and fabrics, with renewable material. Colorfully-hued gradients made by the artist cover the floor and ceiling. " I want this space to showcase my passion for Meditative Design, a new definition of avant-garde luxury for the digital age ", states Kim.
Inspired by Kyoto's architecture built for Zen consciousness of the community, the artist sought to expand on this tradition for the digital age. " My art is an exploration of Digital Zen. Digital environment is relentlessly distracting and addictive. As an attempt to bring new awareness of digital consciousness, my art strips away to the core element of light, color, and sound. My intention is to create a meditative environment on our screen, like a digital Zen garden ", she adds.
This golden box will soon make oxygen on Mars. That's great news for human explorers.
Having safely landed on Mars on Feb. 18, NASA's newest rover, Perseverance, is just beginning its scientific exploration of the Red Planet. But sometime in the next few weeks, the car-size robot will also help pave the way for future humans to travel to our neighboring world with a small instrument known as the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE).
In addition to the propellant needed to get off Earth and fly to Mars, a spacecraft bringing humans to the Red Planet would need between 66,000 and 100,000 pounds (30,000 and 45,000 kilograms) of oxygen to return home, according to NASA . "We can send that oxygen from Earth to Mars, but if we can make it on the surface that potentially saves us a lot of money," Hinterman said.
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