Is Mars Ours? | The New Yorker
It had been a decade since I'd last cracked open the book. In that time, I'd become a journalist specializing in space, covering its practical, physical, biological, psychological, sociological, political, and legal aspects; still, the novel's plot had always stayed with me, somewhere in the back of my mind.
Advocates of space settlement have long borrowed from an old-fashioned version of the American mythos, which holds that conquering the untamed wilderness of the New World made us better and more democratic as we advanced westward. At least symbolically, space, the final frontier, is sometimes presented as a savage land in need of humanity's beneficent influence. For a time, SpaceX, the private company run by Elon Musk , called its planned passenger vehicle the Mars Colonial Transporter.
Mars may still be volcanically active, study finds | Space
Evidence of what may be the youngest eruption seen yet on Mars suggests the Red Planet may still be volcanically active, raising the possibility it was recently habitable, a new study finds.
Most volcanism on Mars occurred between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, leaving behind giant monuments such as Olympus Mons , the tallest mountain in the solar system. At 16 miles (25 km) high, Olympus Mons is about three times as tall as Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain.
Perseverance's Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Mastcam-Z Views 'Santa Cruz' on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The entire scene is inside of Mars’ Jezero Crater; the crater’s rim can be seen on the horizon line beyond the hill. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.
NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.
Opinion: The game-changing innovation on Mars - CNN
Katie Mack is an assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State University, researching dark matter, the early universe and other topics in theoretical cosmology. She is the author of The New York Times Notable Book "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)." The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
(CNN) On April 20, after two months on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover performed a magic trick: it produced breathable oxygen out of thin air. An instrument called MOXIE (the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) used electricity to split a small amount of the carbon dioxide of Mars' tenuous atmosphere into pure oxygen and carbon monoxide.
China's Tianwen-1 mission getting set to try and land Zhurong rover on Mars - ABC News
If it succeeds, it will become just the third nation to safely touch down on the Red Planet after Russia and the United States.
Since then, Tianwen-1 has been mapping the surface of Mars and getting ready to land its first rover, Zhurong, named after an ancient god of fire.
While the exact landing date is unclear, i's likely to be mid this month, according to reports from Chinese state media.
China's Mars exploration program may be less mature than NASA's, but the Tianwen-1 mission will make a significant contribution to the science community, said David Flannery of Queensland University of Technology, who works on NASA's Perseverance mission.
Sols 3112-3114: Always a Silver Lining! – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Things not going to plan doesn’t have to mean a disaster - sometimes there is a silver lining to be found and today was one of those days.
In this case, the drive stopping short worked in GEOs’ favour. MAHLI imaging of an APXS target on freshly broken rock (as the rover drove over it) from Wednesday (“Gourdon”) revealed very intriguing textures. From this slightly different angle, we were able to get both Mastcam multispectral imaging and ChemCam on a section of this target (at “Grignols”) in today’s plan – an opportunity we would have missed if the drive had gone as planned.
PolitiFact | No, rover photos aren't proof that scientists have found fungi growing on Mars
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• A group of scientists published a paper in which they claim that Mars Rover photographs indicate that fungi are growing on Mars.
• The legitimacy of the paper’s lead researcher has been repeatedly called into question.
The articles point to a study published by a group of scientists titled, "Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images."
Students excel on Mars and at sea | Powell Tribune
These days, education is sometimes criticized because there is little real-world application. It also faces criticism that historical events are either glossed over or simply learned by rote …
This year, the Powell High School senior art class did some double duty because, after COVID-19 closed school after spring break last year, there was still a project to complete.
Happening on Twitter
🚁 Ingenuity is on the move! @NASA's #MarsHelicopter took its first one-way journey on Friday afternoon, flying 400… https://t.co/0LH6FuW9XI NASA_Marshall (from Huntsville, Alabama USA) Mon May 10 16:49:24 +0000 2021
Meanwhile on the Red Planet, NASA's Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter continues to reach new heights as it progresses throu… https://t.co/ecXCoJJJGK NASA_SLS (from Huntsville, AL) Tue May 11 17:00:10 +0000 2021
On May 7, @NASA's #Ingenuity #Mars Helicopter completed its fifth flight on the Red Planet today with its first one… https://t.co/xRi4srrajh SETIInstitute (from Mountain View, CA) Mon May 10 20:27:03 +0000 2021
I've seen what the #MarsHelicopter can do – and now I've heard it. 🎧 Grab headphones and listen to the otherworld… https://t.co/ftvFCggELT NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Fri May 07 15:11:54 +0000 2021
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