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NASA will send a tiny helicopter to Mars in 2020

sudshr47 May 11, 2018

NASA announced that it’s sending a helicopter to Mars in a little over two years.

If successful, this aerial Mars explorer, with a body about the size of a football, would be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.

NASA hopes to launch the prototype to Mars with the agency’s 2020 rover, which is designed to hunt for signs of past life on the red planet.

“After the Wright Brothers proved 117 years ago that powered, sustained, and controlled flight was possible here on Earth, another group of American pioneers may prove the same can be done on another world,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement. Read more…

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NASA’s InSight lander launches on a mission to unlock the secrets of Mars

sudshr47 May 5, 2018

NASA’s InSight lander and two tiny satellites are on their way to Mars.

An Atlas V rocket — which also launched NASA’s Curiosity rover to the red planet — lofted the payload into space on Saturday at 7:05 a.m. ET from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.

After it deploys from the rocket at about 8:40 a.m. ET, the InSight lander, designed to unlock the secrets of Mars’ interior, will spend about six months traveling to Mars, trailed by the two cubesats.

This was the first Mars mission launched from Vandenberg, situated next to the Pacific Ocean. Read more…

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Get up super early and watch NASA’s InSight Mars lander launch live

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

Night owl? Good news — there’s an historic rocket launch early tomorrow morning that you can catch while the rest of the country is sleeping. NASA’s InSight Mars lander is scheduled for takeoff at 4:05 AM Pacific, weather permitting.

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NASA launches its next mission to Mars on Saturday. Here’s how to see it live.

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

On Saturday, NASA will launch its latest and greatest mission to Mars.

If all goes according to plan, the InSight lander — designed to look below the surface of Mars, mapping its interior — will take flight to the red planet atop an Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:05 a.m. ET.

Even if you aren’t physically in California to see the launch in the wee hours of the morning, you can still catch the high-flying Mars action live online thanks to NASA.

NASA TV will air the live broadcast of the InSight launch starting at 6:30 a.m. ET. You can watch it in the window below. Read more…

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Tiny satellites named Wall-E and Eva are about to take a trip to Mars. Will they survive?

sudshr47 May 3, 2018

Two tiny NASA satellites nicknamed Wall-E and Eva are about to hitch a ride to Mars.

The twin, suitcase-sized spacecraft, called cubesats, will launch to space Saturday aboard the same rocket carrying NASA’s InSight lander to Mars, but they’ll have very different missions once they reach the red planet in November.

While InSight is expected to unlock the secrets of the planet’s interior from the ground, the cubesats — collectively named MarCO, short for Mars Cube One — will stay in orbit around Mars to test out if these little spacecraft can relay information from the lander back to Earth. Read more…

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NASA’s next Mars mission launches Saturday: Everything you need to know

sudshr47 May 2, 2018

On Saturday, NASA will launch its next mission to Mars. This time the lander, known as InSight, is focused squarely on learning more about the inner-workings of the red planet.

The space agency’s InSight lander is expected to take about seven months between launch and — if all goes well — landing on the planet in November to gather all the data it can about the Martian geology around it and below it.

While the mission probably won’t directly help humans get to Mars in the coming decades, the science InSight is tasked with is still pretty amazing. Read more…

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Incredible new photo shows Mars bathed in dramatic light

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

A beautiful new photo shows off Mars in a dramatic new light.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter just beamed home the amazing new image from April 15.

The photo was taken by the satellite’s Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) right after the satellite moved into a new orbit about 400 kilometers above the world’s surface. The lighting is what makes it really special.

“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was, given the lighting conditions,” Antoine Pommerol, a member of the science team, said in a statement. You can see the Korolev Crater covered with ice in the planet’s northern hemisphere, according to the ESA. Read more…

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Thanks to scientists, we can now grow vegetables on Antarctica

sudshr47 April 9, 2018

This indoor farm allows scientists to grow plants on Antarctica, without the need for soil. Read more…More about Space, Science, Food, Mashable Video, and Mars

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Finding alien life won’t cause chaos and panic, according to scientists

sudshr47 February 28, 2018

Thanks to science fiction, there’s a general view that finding alien life would cause the public to break out in a social upheaval. According to scientists, that’s not quite the case.
Michael Varnum, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Arizona St…

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Elon Musk’s vision of human spaceflight can take us to Mars, but there’s a cost

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

Picture this: A crew of the first humans to journey beyond Earth and the moon arrive at Mars. Their boots touch the rusty surface of the red planet after a months-long trip through deep space.
Who are they? How do they understand what they see?…

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How to watch Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster disappear into deep space

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

We’ve been watching “Starman” cruise through space in his cosmic Tesla Roadster for a week now.

But on Valentine’s Day, Elon Musk’s shrewd payload from SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will disappear into deep space — and you can watch it happen live.

Streaming live via the Virtual Telescope Project, an Italy-based project dedicated to streaming real-time telescope footage online, you’ll be able to see Musk’s Tesla Roadster disappear from view.

In a live event scheduled for Feb. 14, beginning at 7:15 a.m. ET (4:15 a.m. PT, 12:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 p.m. AEDT), robotic telescopes will capture the Roadster in its final visible stage. Read more…

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GM expands Maven car sharing to Toronto

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

GM has launched its first major international city for its Maven car sharing product. The service is going live in Toronto, Canada’s largest city by population, with rates beginning at $9 per hour which include gas and insurance coverage. The launch follows a prior pilot in the Waterloo region nearby, but Toronto is the first launch at scale Maven has undertaken outside of the U.S.… Read More