Colonization of Mars: Mars, Spacecraft propulsion, Nuclear propulsion, Orbital eccentricity, Terraforming of Mars, Earth's magnetic field, Vision for Space ... Society, Exploration of Mars, Water on Mars
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
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Stars - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered a young star where young planets jostle about like unsettled children. The system may be similar to our own solar system before our planets settled into their familiar orbits. See article . g Message...
Recovering from a hard ride, and preparing for a big dinner party, and enjoying an absolutely beautiful day. Wow, I think sometimes November is the *best* month in Southern California, especially when it isn't too windy... anyway, let's make a filter pass, shall we? Well Technorati is officially dead. At least for me. For the longest time I had an RSS feed there, to tell me about inbound links and...
Ever wonder how everybody could be so gullible back in 1938 that they'd so easily fall for Orson Welles' Halloween hoax , and buy into the fact that the U.S. was really in the middle of a Martian invasion? Well, the hip historians over at Letters of Note have uncovered a document from a dozen years earlier that proves just how ready the country was to believe in intelligent life on the Red Planet...
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 [...]
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 [...]
Image 1: Planetary scientists believe that waterfalls may have once cascaded down these steep cliffs at Echus Chasma on Mars. Mars has many desiccated landscapes like this one, thought to have been sculpted by abundant water in the distant past. Photo credit: Mars Express/ESAImage 2: An artist's concept of solar wind blowing away the atmosphere of Mars. This is just one of several plausible explanations...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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Long ago, something calamitous happened to Mars, transforming a hospitable world into the apparently lifeless desert we see today. Many scientists believe the Red Planet lost most of its atmosphere, but how? A new NASA mission named MAVEN is specifically designed to answer that question. Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley ! Get this podcast story.
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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
Those born on the 9th, 18th and 27th of any month are governed by the ruling number 9. This number is governed by planet Mars. These people are usually aggressive, courageous, quick and dashing. Ruling Number 9,Numerology http://www.myfreehoroscopes.net/numerology/rulingnumber9.html
Mars is the ruling planet of Aries, a planet that symbolises war and.passion. It is almost guaranteed that an Aries-Aries relationship will never be boring Aries, Love, Compatibility, http://www.myfreehoroscopes.net/lovehoroscopes/aries-lovecompatibility.html