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Martian sunrise
A Martian sunrise was captured in this Viking 2 Lander picture taken June 14, 1978, at the spacecraft’s Utopia Planitia landing site. The data composing this image were acquired just as the Sun peaked...
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The new question: Should we terraform Mars?
Artist’s conception of a terraformed Mars. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Paul Scott Anderson at Universe Today: As “we” continue to explore farther out into our solar system and beyond, the question of...
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ASTRONOMICAL: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
A scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometers. This film takes us through...
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NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action or Mars Fertilization
A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter....
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Designing the Interplanetary Web
Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering...
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Simulating Mars in an Austrian Cave
Volunteers and professionals at the Austrian Space Forum are testing a prototype Mars space suit in a series of ice caves that provide conditions similar to those on the Red Planet. Humanity is still...
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The “Energies and Skills” Trilogy / Tom Sachs’ Space Program: MARS
Directed by Van Neistat, 2012. Produced on the occasion of Tom Sachs’ Space Program: MARS Artist Tom Sachs takes his SPACE PROGRAM to the next level with a four week mission to Mars that recasts the...
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Extremophiles Thrive on Earth’s Scientific Stand-in for Mars
The unimaginably arid conditions of South America’s Atacama Desert have mad it the perfect scientific stand-in for Mars. So in a place that is quite literally almost alien, it makes sense we’d find...
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Your Weight in Outer Space
Via CoudalFiled under: Design, Earthly/Geo/Astro, Photographics Tagged: earth, Jupiter, mars, moon, outer space, pounds, weight
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Interactive 360° Panorama of Curiosity’s Landing Site on Mars
A high-resolution interactive 360 panorama of Curiosity’s landing site stitched by EDS Systems. See it HEREFiled under: Digital Media, Earthly/Geo/Astro, Photographics Tagged: 360, curiosity,...
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The International Meteorite Black Market
At 2 a.m. on 18 July, 2011, nomads in the Oued Drâa valley, to the east of Tata, Morocco, witnessed a ball of fire streak across the sky, followed by a series of sonic booms. The explanation was as...
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Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Habitability
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found what it went to Mars to look for: evidence of an environment that could have once supported life. Chemical analyses show that a greyish powder taken from the rover’s...
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78,000 apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars
Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteading on Mars. About 78,000 people have applied to become Red Planet colonists with the nonprofit...
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