Mars was not always red: Berkeley experts discuss Mars exploration | Berkeley News
You're invited to hear our experts share experiences with space exploration and Mars science, providing us with insights into what lies ahead.
Speakers: Manar Al Asad, Graduate Student, Earth & Planetary Science; Bill Dietrich, Professor, Earth & Planetary Science; Rob Lillis, Associate Director, Space Sciences Lab; and David Shuster, Professor, Earth & Planetary Science
The water on Mars didn't run dry all at once, study finds | Space
Mars did not dry up all at once, but fluctuated between dry spells and wetter times before becoming the arid planet it is today, a new study finds.
To shed light on how Mars dried up , scientists analyzed data from NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. The machine is currently exploring the base of Mount Sharp, a giant mound about 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) high rising up from the center of 96-mile-wide (154 km) Gale Crater.
Officially known as Aeolis Mons, Mount Sharp "is a giant mound of sediment — rocks deposited by wind and water," study lead author William Rapin, a planetary scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, told Space.com. Prior work dated its base as 3.6 billion years old, placing it within Mars' Hesperian period, when the planet was shifting from wet to dry.
NASA Again Delays Mars Helicopter Test Flight | Voice of America - English
Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) say the much-anticipated first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed again while scientists make some software modifications.
Scientists had hoped to perform the first controlled powered flight of an aircraft on a planet other than Earth as early as Sunday.
Mars Launches New Coalition to Mobilize Suppliers & Accelerate Climate Action | State |
McLEAN, Va., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Mars, Incorporated, in partnership with sustainability consultancy Guidehouse, has today announced the formation of a new coalition, the Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition (Supplier LoCT), to mobilize suppliers on climate action. The partnership aims to drive industry-wide movement by providing suppliers with the knowledge, resources and tools to develop their own climate plans to reduce their impact on the planet.
Mars, Incorporated partners with Guidehouse, McCormick and PepsiCo, enlisting suppliers to create climate action plans and reduce their impact on the planet.
Perseverance's mission to Mars and the Michigan connection
(WXYZ) — NASA's incredible Perseverance mission to Mars has a Michigan connection and we're examining it during tonight's 7 UpFront report.
The rover touched down on the red planet just a few weeks ago, giving us stunning images the likes of which we've never seen before.
University of Michigan Professor of Aerospace Engineering Jesse Capecelatro is joining us to talk about it.
"So this has been a very exciting time. And, I guess for context, I joined the University of Michigan in 2016," Capecelatro said. "And that's when we started working on this project. So I've been working with folks directly involved with that landing, but the work we're doing is specifically targeted to all the future missions coming up. So that's sample return, and crude missions eventually sending people to Mars. But what we're very interested in is all the data coming out from Perseverance.
UCLA Engineering Alumna Recounts Journey of Perseverance on Mars and Planet Earth | UCLA Samueli
Photo by Trevor Stamp / Contributing Photographer for Long Beach Press-Telegram
Ny Sou Okon at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The rover looking down at the Ingenuity helicopter
( Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Unlike most spectators cheering for the successful touchdown, Okon was also preparing to support operations by the rover on Sol 1, the first Martian day.
Liftoff for Bronx Latino students' names carried into space on NASA Mars rover
Ronald Sanchez thought it was a joke when his high school teacher told him his name would be on NASA's Perseverance rover heading straight to Mars. To his surprise, it was true.
A couple of years ago, science teacher Alejandro Mundo, 29, approached his astronomy class at Kingsbridge International High School in the Bronx, New York, with an exciting idea proposed by NASA: His 25 students could send their names, stenciled on chips, to Mars on the rover created to pave the way for humans to explore the red planet.
Mars’ moment: Planetary scientists from NAU, USGS share experiences watching Perseverance
RA: I was really busy getting some last-minute things done to help the SuperCam team prepare for landing, so I didn’t have a lot of time to stop and worry. I was of course reminded of what it was like in 2012, when the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater, and how different it would be to experience the landing remotely rather than with the whole science team together in-person at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
LE : I was nervous and excited! Landing on Mars is an extremely risky endeavor. Recognizing how much work had gone into designing, building and operating that spacecraft made those moments feel even more tense. I was optimistic, but holding my breath during the landing sequence!
Mars Wrigley Announces Latest Innovation With SNICKERS® Almond Brownie - Bringing Better Moments
NEWARK, N.J. , April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SNICKERS® has announced the brand's newest product innovation – SNICKERS Almond Brownie. The newest addition to the SNICKERS brownie portfolio will launch in August 2021 and will feature the brand's newest flavor obsession: a chewy brownie filling, mixed with chopped almonds and topped with a layer of luscious caramel, all coated in dark chocolate.
The innovation follows the release of two other products in the SNICKERS brownie line-up: SNICKERS Peanut Brownie, which features a chewy peanut-brownie filling, a layer of caramel and a classic SNICKERS chocolate coating, and the SNICKERS Peanut Brownie Ice Cream, which features brownie-flavored ice cream with chewy brownie bits, topped with a thin layer of caramel and peanuts covered in a milk chocolate-y coating, both currently on shelves nationwide.
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