From being the celestial embodiment of warrior gods to housing canal-digging aliens, Mars has uniquely endured in the public consciousness. Even today, the Red Planet still spells adventure, says Stuart Clark Space | Comment 26 October 2022 By Stuart Clark Michelle D’urbano THERE is something about Mars that captivates us. Throughout history, different cultures and...
Enlarge / One of the designs for NASA’s commercial lunar delivery service. On May 5, 2022, the seismometer on board the InSight lander recorded a quake of magnitude 4.7 on the Martian surface, despite the epicenter being 2,250 km from the lander. It was one of the largest quakes recorded on Mars and the largest...
When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for hundreds of millions of years Space 25 October 2022 By Leah Crane This extremophile bacteria can withstand extreme radiation MICHAEL J DALY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Microorganisms...
When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, they can survive the intense radiation that hits the Red Planet for hundreds of millions of years Space 25 October 2022 By Leah Crane This extremophile bacteria can withstand extreme radiation MICHAEL J DALY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Microorganisms...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 119, Issue 42, October 2022. <br/>#Seismic #detection #deep #mantle #discontinuity #Mars #InSight Source link
NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 27, to share new scientific findings based on observations from the agency’s InSight Mars lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).#NASA #Host #Briefing #InSight #Mars #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Findings Source link
Europe’s research ministers are to be asked for “up to €360m” (£313.5m) to start the process of reconfiguring the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. The UK-built robot missed its window to go to the Red Planet this year when the West suspended all scientific co-operation with Russia. Engineers are now having to redesign the project...
Researchers in the UArizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology simulated the conditions hypothetical lifeforms would have encountered on Mars 4 billion years ago, when liquid water was likely present in abundance on the red planet. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser If there ever was life on Mars—and that’s a huge “if”—conditions during the planet’s infancy most...
Bruno Mars has announced that Silk Sonic — the R&B duo consisting of himself and Anderson .Paak — have withdrawn their album “An Evening With Silk Sonic” from consideration for the 2023 Grammy Awards, he told Rolling Stone. “We truly put our all on this record, but Silk Sonic would like to gracefully, humbly and most importantly, sexually, bow out of submitting...
New videos captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show the rare moment of the Martian moon Deimos passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean moons as well as the Martian moon Phobos drifting in front of Deimos. Deimos passing in front of Jupiter and its Galilean...