Mars One – Crazy and it might work
After this PR fiasco over at Reddit , where the community ripped into the founder for not being an engineer or scientist, and the whole thing being a scam. Like user MoonTouch said, “Can you provide...
View ArticleMIT Professor Has Created a Safer, Skin Tight Space Suit That Will Make It...
When we send the first humans to Mars we will need to get the most scientific data in the smallest amount of time while not exhausting our astronauts in the process. Dava J. Newman has been working on...
View ArticleMars One chooses 1058 applicants for next round of Mars exploration mission
Of the over 200,000 applicants to be the first human to set foot on Mars, 1058 have made the next cut. This narrows down the field of applicants down by 99.5%. Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp says “We’re...
View ArticleMethane may have warmed early Mars
The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There’s plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically flowed across the planet’s surface. Yet in the time period when these waters are...
View ArticleMars atmosphere well protected from the solar wind
Despite the absence of a global Earth-like magnetic dipole, the Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind on ion escape from the planet. New research shows this using...
View ArticleEducator Conference: The InSight Mission – Quakes on Mars
When: Saturday, March 10, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Target Audience: Teachers for grades K-12 and informal educators (museums, science centers,...
View ArticleNASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to...
View ArticleMars atmosphere well protected from the solar wind
Despite the absence of a global Earth-like magnetic dipole, the Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind on ion escape from the planet. New research shows this using...
View ArticleEducator Conference: The InSight Mission – Quakes on Mars
When: Saturday, March 10, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Target Audience: Teachers for grades K-12 and informal educators (museums, science centers,...
View ArticleNASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to...
View ArticleRichard Branson Confident Virgin Galactic Will Get Him to Space This Year
Two years ago, we touched on some ambitious efforts to reach Mars. Notably, we reported on the astonishing undertaking of Mars One, a Dutch nonprofit that for years has been talking about developing a...
View ArticleChina unveils colossal Mars training base camp in Gobi desert
Most Advanced Mars Training Facility in ChinaCosts $373 million dollarsNamed Mars Base 1Geography as close to Mars as you can get on Earth Jinchang China – China unveiled a colossal Mars survival...
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