On Mars: One Photo which says everything
For a really gee whiz look at this image from NASA's Curiosity Rover go to the JPL web site, here. The perspective of tiny Earth viewed from one of her closest planetary neighbors, tells us all we...
View ArticleOn Mars: Republicans of all Stripes Should Probably Hate This
Christian Fundies should hate it because it belies the possibility of young Earth. Tea Partyers should hate it because their taxes help pay for it. Wall Street should hate it because they can't find a...
View ArticleOn Mars: It is Not Yet Time for Humans to Go
Hopefully, humans will not be going to Mars within the lifetimes of any person now alive. Only unforeseen scientific and technological breakthroughs could change that hope. Antics like the Mars One...
View ArticleOn Mars: Women
It takes 102 people to run daily operations for the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity Rover mission. Today, NASA recognizes and honors women on the project, assigning 76 of those rolls to women....
View ArticleOn Mars: Today NASA Announced the Science Package for the Next Rover
While Curiosity continues to perform groundbreaking science in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA today announced the scientific instruments and capabilities for the next rover mission planned for 2020. Come out...
View Article[BREAKING] Water on Mars - today!
Recurring lineae - evidence of flowing waterNASA just announced evidence for flowing water on Mars in the present.Full NASA press release now available - The Guardian:Liquid water runs down canyons and...
View ArticleThe evolution of Mars
The great drying: Mars as it may have appeared billions of years ago on the left, and Mars as it appears today on the far right. Source: WikipediaNASA's Mars Curiosity Rover was sent off to Mars in...
View ArticleOn a hill, far away
stands an old robotic surveyor and man, is this picture of it AWESOME! Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 1065I did not attempt to embed out of concern for their policy on...
View ArticleItalian researchers discover evidence of a lake on Mars
Italian researchers working with data from the European Space Agency MARIS orbiter have produced evidence that there is water on Mars. Not a trickle, not a puddle, but a lake more than 12 miles across...
View ArticleA Celebration of the first day of Perseverance on Mars
Let’s celebrate the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.After a few nail-biting moments (for many), the hard work and ingenuity of scientists at NASA paid off with a successful landing...
View ArticleAmazing video of Perseverance landing on Mars
As promised, NASA just released this video of the landing of Perseverance on the surface of Mars, in the north-western part of the Jezero crater. It starts with the deployment of the parachute 11 km...
View ArticleOnce a mere tchotchke, Ingenuity has matured into Perseverance's advance scout
It was a late addition to Mars 2020, not even part of the original plans. It was supposed to be a mere prototype, a knickknack, a tchotchke, a gizmo. A machine that would, if all went well, make a...
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