Colonization of Mars: Mars, Spacecraft propulsion, Nuclear propulsion, Orbital eccentricity, Terraforming of Mars, Earth's magnetic field, Vision for ... Society, Exploration of Mars, Water on Mars
JoelsBlog.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. Mercury
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet’s moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out [...]
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once upon a time — roughly four billion years ago — Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed the planet and kept it warm. Living microbes might have even arisen, some scientists believe, starting Mars [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Martian landscapes - The Big Picture @ Boston.com via Waxy . Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per...
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Shortly after the planets inside our own solar system were formed, they began wobbling about, and roaming around, far from being caught in the well-defined orbits we see today. This chaotic motion is mainly responsible for the formation of the Moon, after Earth collided with a Mars-sized object that was circling the Sun on about the same orbit. These chaotic times have been history for billions of...
Darker View (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If you are staying up or getting up to watch the 2009 Leonid Meteors , you might take some time and enjoy some other sights the universe has to offer while you are out under a dark sky. The notes here are for the night of the Leonids, November 17th, but as planetary configurations do not change quickly, much is accurate for several weeks either side of that date. Times may change a bit dependent on...
The Composed Gentleman (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Jeopardy TV game show today asked this question: What is the densest planet in the solar system? The planets that are much closer to the sun are dense planets. That is why Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are denser than Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn.Among Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, the densest planet is Earth. The second densest is Mercury.Rank - Name - Density (kg pr. cubic
Stockstars Market Astrology (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Here I am showing the aspects made between Sun Venus and Mars to the other slower moving planets. You can see that yesterday the 5th November there were more soft aspects, and we know that the US market went up. Now look at the aspects for today the 6th November. We have more hards. So it is easier for the markets to go down. Now either they will follow the aspects, or they don't and their volume will...
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Weather, in the strictest sense of the term, does not exist on Mars. The planet is surrounded by nothing more than an extremely thin atmosphere, which is about one percent as thick as our own. In spite of that, freezing temperatures, clouds, and dust storms like nothing seen on Earth exist there, and all these events have their own influence on Mars. Now, Istvan Szunyogh, a Texas A&M professor...
USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Phoenix Mars Lander was a NASA mission that launched to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007, aboard the Delta II 7925 vehicle. It consisted of a robotic station that was to conduct scientific experiments on Mars, and study surface chemistry, weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and the landscape too. Originally scheduled to operate for 125 sols (Martian days), and conclude in August 2008, the...
Skymania News | Space headlines (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Back in May, I wrote that NASA's latest Mars lander, Phoenix, was wearing "a thick overcoat of frost" in a feature for BBC Sky at Night magazine. I never expected actually to see that wintry shroud. But astonishing new pictures by a powerful space camera have picked out the scene, high in the martian arctic. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter picked out the now silent...
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Written by Nicholos Wethington Ever heard of a ‘Cyborg Astrobiologist’? Probably not. But I bet you’ll want to be one after learning that future exploration of Mars (and other planets, for that matter) may employ the use of artificial intelligence integrated into spacesuits to enhance the ability of astronauts in taking scientific data while exploring. The [...]
Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mars isn’t exactly the warmest place during the winter transition, but as the first few rays of sunshine lick at the planet’s surface we’re able to make out the Phoenix lander shivering under a cover of dry-ice frost. (more…)
RSS fabriek (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mars isn’t exactly the warmest place during the winter transition, but as the first few rays of sunshine lick at the planet’s surface we’re able to make out the Phoenix lander shivering under a cover of dry-ice frost. We’re able to see the lander in the images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) [...]
Lady, That's My Skull (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It has been quite a while since I posted a chapter of the late-1940s Planet Comics serial, Futura . The reasons for not continuing her saga are partly exhaustion, partly the odd change of direction in the story and partly due to the fact that the original resources for the images were of such poor quality that posting the images would be a disappointment if not to a reader than to myself. The work...
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