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What’s the matter with ‘Mars’? Season 2 struggles to find footing on Red Planet

sudshr47 November 12, 2018

Mars is hard. Hard to get to, hard to make habitable for humans, hard to tell a story about on the screen and leave the viewer with any lasting impression.

With a few shining exceptions — looking at you, The Martian — all Mars movies have bombed. From Mission to Mars with Tim Robbins in 2000 to The Last Days on Mars with Liev Schreiber in 2012, even supernatural thrillers have failed to locate deposits of decent drama on the Red Planet. And the TV version hasn’t fared much better.

Witness Hulu’s new original series The First: ostensibly about the first Mars mission, it doesn’t even bother to make us care about the destination, focusing one entire season on sad Sean Penn and his earthbound struggles. Read more…

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Whatever happened to Starman? SpaceX says he’s gone beyond Mars.

sudshr47 November 6, 2018

Hey, so what happened to Starman?

It’s been nine months since we saw SpaceX’s heroic space suit-clad mannequin cruising through space in a Tesla Roadster.

On Feb. 14, we watched Starman disappear into deep space, after being carried carried into orbit by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which launched its maiden flight and landed two of its three main boosters back on Earth — we were there.

And now, he’s made it past Mars.

According to a diagram tweeted by SpaceX on Monday, Starman is reasonably close to Mars, but beyond its orbit.

Starman’s current location. Next stop, the restaurant at the end of the universepic.twitter.com/Ty5m8IjJpE

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 3, 2018 Read more…

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Mars might hold enough oxygen under its surface for life

sudshr47 October 23, 2018

We’ve long thought about the unlikely possibility of life on Mars, but it’s under the planet’s surface where those chances look stronger.
A new study published in Nature suggests that the salty water which subsists under Mars’ surface could hold enou…

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Mars Rover Curiosity is switching brains so it can fix itself

sudshr47 October 4, 2018

When you send something to space, it’s good to have redundancy. Sometimes you want to send two whole duplicate spacecraft just in case — as was the case with Voyager — but sometimes it’s good enough to have two of critical components. Mars Rover Curiosity is no exception, and it is now in the process of switching from one main “brain” to the other so it can do digital surgery on the first.

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Scientists make artificial Martian dirt, will sell it to you for $20

sudshr47 September 30, 2018

Scientists don’t expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they’re making their own.
Created by University of Central Florida astrophysicists, this red soil, called Mars “simulant,” is designed to give researchers a useful approximat…

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Mars orbiter spots silent, dust-covered Opportunity rover as dust storm clears

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

Mars rover Opportunity has been operating on the surface of the Red Planet since 2004, but a dust storm this summer may prove to be the mission’s toughest challenges. The enormous storm caked Opportunity in dust and blocked out the sun, its source of energy — and there’s no guarantee the batteries aren’t dead for good. But now that the skies have cleared, we at least have our first look at the workhorse rover from orbit.

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Can’t get out of bed? NASA picked the perfect songs to wake up its Mars rover.

sudshr47 August 15, 2018

Having trouble getting up in the morning? Crank up a playlist inspired to wake up a robot on Mars.
NASA engineers have picked songs to greet their sleeping Opportunity rover on Mars, which survived a Martian dust storm in June but is yet to switch ba…

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The secretive lab that built ‘the bomb’ now scours Mars for signs of life

sudshr47 August 11, 2018

The military planted a large sign along the only road out of Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early 1940s. The black, half-cursive, almost playful lettering on a white background asked anyone leaving the government facility a question:

“Are you continuing to protect project information?”

The “project” was the Manhattan Project, devoted to building the world’s first atomic bomb. And it was being built in a place that – as far as the U.S. government was concerned – didn’t exist.

The thousands of scientists, engineers, and soldiers residing in a town of hastily assembled buildings, old wood cabins, and lines of trailers were forbidden from discussing the sprawling laboratory, which couldn’t be found on any maps. Read more…

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Curiosity rover celebrates six cold, lonely years on Mars with a tweet

sudshr47 August 5, 2018

Being alone on a cold alien landscape may seem like a sad way to pass six years, but for the Mars Curiosity rover, it’s been a brilliant stretch.

Sunday, Aug. 5 marked the sixth anniversary of Curiosity’s historic touchdown on the surface of Mars and the rover celebrated the way we all do: with a post on social media.

I touched down on #Mars six years ago. Celebrating my 6th landing anniversary with the traditional gift of iron… oxide. (It puts the red in Red Planet.) https://t.co/AgssRU46yh pic.twitter.com/IAMa5H4TUG

— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 5, 2018 Read more…

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NASA study says setting off bombs over Mars isn’t the best idea

sudshr47 July 31, 2018

Remember when Elon Musk said he wanted to nuke Mars?

As he later clarified, the idea was to create two “pulsing suns” over the poles with fusion bombs, which would release trapped carbon dioxide to thicken the atmosphere and warm the planet. Next, people would pack up their belongings, board a spaceship, and touch down on a much more habitable Mars.

This is called terraforming — altering a planet to make it more like Earth. (Yes, like in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.)

Welp, it looks like that plan has a fatal flaw, according to a NASA-sponsored study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. There just isn’t enough carbon dioxide trapped on Mars to make it work. Read more…

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NASA’s 3D-printed Mars Habitat competition doles out prizes to concept habs

sudshr47 July 27, 2018

A multi-year NASA contest to design a 3D-printable Mars habitat using on-planet materials has just hit another milestone — and a handful of teams have taken home some cold hard cash. This more laid-back phase had contestants designing their proposed habitat using architectural tools, with the five winners set to build scale models next year.

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Mars and Saturn swing close to Earth, revealing stormy skies in new photos

sudshr47 July 26, 2018

The intrepid Hubble Space Telescope recently spied storms on Mars and moons racing around Saturn.

Both planets’ orbits have aligned with Earth this year to bring them relatively close — though they’re still millions of miles away.

Astronomers call this event “opposition,” because, during these periods, Earthlings see Mars or Saturn rise in the East, while the sun sets opposite us, in the West.