Category: Mars

  Will SpaceX Really Be Flying People To Mars In 10 Years? SpaceX’s President Gwynne Shotwell has said she is confident that the company will be launching people regularly to Mars in a decade. Source: www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2018/12/14/will-spacex-really-be-flying-people-to-mars-in-10-years/

Martian methane—spotted in 2004—has mysteriously vanished The European Space Agency’s Trace Gas Orbiter deepens planet’s carbon mystery Source: www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/martian-methane-spotted-2004-has-mysteriously-vanished

  Recent tectonics on Mars These prominent trenches were formed by faults that pulled the planet’s surface apart less than 10 million years ago. Source: m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Recent_tectonics_on_Mars

  HP Mars Home Planet premieres virtual reality experience HP Inc. and a global community of creators unveiled a virtual reality (VR) simulation of what life on Mars could look like for a human population of one Source: www.designworldonline.com/hp-mars-home-planet-premieres-virtual-reality-experience/

  Martian atmosphere behaves as one New research using a decade of data from ESA’s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex martian atmosphere acting as a single, interconnected system, with processes occurring at low and mid levels significantly affecting those seen higher up. Source: m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Martian_atmosphere_behaves_as_one

  NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976 Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. Source: www.space.com/41140-mars-lander-may-have-burned-organics.html

How to get to Mars without going mad | Cosmos How to get to Mars without going mad | Cosmos Research highlights the psychological dangers of long-haul space flights. Andrew Masterson reports. Source: cosmosmagazine.com/space/how-to-get-to-mars-without-going-mad

Australian company’s small step may help NASA’s giant leap on Mars Australian company’s small step may help NASA’s giant leap on Mars A Gold Coast-based company may help NASA extract water on Mars, after striking an agreement with the space agency that is believed to be an Australian first. NASA will assist Gilmour Space Technologies…

Europe’s Mars rover takes shape So, here it is. Europe’s Mars rover. Or rather, a copy of it. This is what they call the Structural Thermal Model, or STM. It is one of three rovers that will be built as part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2020 mission to search for life on the…

Newly Released Images of Mars by NASA Will Change the Way You See the Planet If it’s quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the…

  Rare Metals On Mars And Earth Implicate Colossal Impacts – Astrobiology Magazine Elements found in the mantles of Earth and Mars could be indicative of giant impacts early in the histories of both planets. Source: www.astrobio.net/mars/rare-metals-mars-earth-implicate-colossal-impacts/

SpaceX is Getting Serious About Its Future BFR Launchpad to Mars Start in Texas, end on Mars. When SpaceX does begin sending people to Mars, the last part of Earth they see from the ground — perhaps ever if it’s a one-way trip — will likely be the company’s private spaceport in Boca Chica Village, Texas. And it…

Yes, I’m all for this. We’ve already sent “contaminated” craft to Mars. NASA planetary protection officer suggests loosening limits on exploring Mars for life Plans for human arrival could open up robotic exploration of “special regions” Source: www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/nasa-planetary-protection-officer-suggests-loosening-limits-exploring-mars-life