Mars

Mars 2020: The Red Planet’s Next Rover 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2018
NASA’s next Mars rover won’t just explore the Red Planet; it will, the space agency hopes, make it so a little bit of Mars might make it to Earth.

By David Aragorn
There’s Only One Way For Humanity to Survive. Go To Mars.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2018
Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they’re coming.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find Bugs That Could Indicate There Is Hidden Life On Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2018
Microbes can lie dormant for decades under Earth’s surface – and could be doing the same on Mars

By David Aragorn
Tiny Martian Moons Hint at Red Planet’s Adolescent Rejection 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2018
Like a teenage diary you can’t throw away, Mars might carry a reminder of its difficult formative years in its tiny moons. A paper published by the Royal Astronomical Society suggests the strangely small Phobos and Deimos could result from a traumatic slingshot rejection of the Red planet from the inner solar system early in its formation, stunting its own growth and removing debris to form a larger moon like our own.

By David Aragorn
Martian snow and diamond rain: Wild weather in our solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 9, 2018
Can you imagine how beautiful it might be to witness snow falling on the rust-colored surface of Mars or a steady rain of glittering diamonds on blue Neptune?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Sends Home Spectacular Panorama 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 6, 2018
A new panoramic image from Curiosity provides a sweeping vista of the interior and rim of Gale Crater, including much of the rover’s route during its first five-and-a-half years on Mars and features up to about 50 miles (85 km) away.

By David Aragorn
A spacecraft is using the Martian atmosphere to get closer to the planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 3, 2018
The ExoMars orbiter is going strong, and slowing down.

By David Aragorn
Martian Dust Storms Linked to Atmospheric Gas Escape 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2018
Martian dust storms play a role in the ongoing process of gas escaping from the top of the planet’s atmosphere, according to a new study using observations by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

By David Aragorn
Mars Massacre : Linda Moulton Howe and Dr John Brandenburg 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- January 25, 2018
MARS has been called the Planet of War.

By David Aragorn
Huge Water Reserves Found All Over Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 16, 2018
New NASA images show layers of ice peeking out of eroded cliffs—a potential boon for future humans on the red planet.

By David Aragorn