Tag: mars
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NASA’s MAVEN Mars Probe Roars Into Orbit
from theregister.co.uk: Scientists and engineers at the agency and Lockheed Martin have spent the last five years building the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft (MAVEN), a 2.5-ton orbital platform that will probe what remains of the Red Planet’s atmosphere to work out how Mars lived, and how we can live on it – as…
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New World Next Week: Episode172 – Arafat Poisoned, India To Mars, Fukushima Cleanup
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode172 – Arafat Poisoned, India To Mars, Fukushima Cleanup Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Swiss Study Shows Polonium Found In Arafat’s Bones Swiss Scientists Confirm Polonium…
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India launches its first mission to Mars
from redicecreations.com: India will aim today to become the first Asian nation to launch a space probe to the planet Mars. (Update: The rocket carrying the probe successfully lifted-off at 09.08 UT). The cut-price mission is due to blast off carrying an unmanned craft to orbit the Red Planet, studying its geology, climate, atmosphere and…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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New World Next Week: Episode163 – Lavabit Shutdown, Mars Mission, Weed TV
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode163 – Lavabit Shutdown, Mars Mission, Weed TV Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Encrypted Email Providers Shutter Services To Protect Users From Government Snoops Microsoft Reverses…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: More than 100,000 people want to fly to Mars in 2022
from dailymail.co.uk: More than 100,000 people have applied to be a part of the Mars One project, which aims to colonize the red planet starting in 2022. Out of the thousands, 40 people will be selected. Of the 40, just four will participate in the first passage to Mars, which is scheduled to leave in…
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Curiosity Finds Mars’ Atmosphere Depleted But Still Active
The Daily Galaxy reports rover Curiosity readings show Mars atmosphere still active! “Curiosity measures several variables in today’s Martian atmosphere with the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS), provided by Spain. While daily air temperature has climbed steadily since the measurements began eight months ago and is not strongly tied to the rover’s location, humidity has…
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What Mount Sharp Would Look Like On Earth
Mars hasn’t sprouted a nitrogen-and-oxygen atmosphere overnight.
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Inspiration To Mars Flyby May Not Inspire ‘Lucky’ Couple
Multi-Millionaire Dennis Tito announced intent at introductory Inspiration Mars Foundation News Conference of sending couple by 2018 on a flyby of Mars. Tito, an engineer, presented his first paper in 1965 on a proposed trajectory for a flyby of Mars! “I’ve been waiting and waiting,” adds Tito at conference, “we need to do something!” Tito…
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Mars And Back In 501 Days
Inspiration Mars Foundation (IMF) announced intent to send two citizens to within 100 miles of Mars.
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The Mars Underground
“A very well-crafted documentary with excellent special effects and awesome musical score that outline a basic, affordable and realistically plausible plan for the human exploration of the red planet in the very near future — as few as just 10 years away (if it can be funded). It shows Dr. Robert Zubrin, aerospace engineer and…
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Hoagland: NASA Lies!
A Universe Today article, “Scientist Explains the Weird Shiny Thing on Mars,” offers a mundane explanation for the anomalous object spotted last week by Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.
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Strongest Evidence Yet Of There Being #LifeOnMars?
from telegraph.co.uk: Prof John Parnell, 55, has co-written a theory with Dr Joseph Michalski, a planetary geologist at the Natural History Museum, that suggests they have discovered the best signs of life in the huge McLaughlin Crater on the surface of Mars. The document, published today in Nature Geoscience journal, describes how they assessed the…
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Did Electric Arc Form Valles Marineris?
David Talbott narrates excerpt on You Tube, “Planet Of A Thousand Mysteries,” that examines possible role of electric discharge in formation of Valles Marineris on Mars.
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Flight Into Mariner Valley: Valles Marineris
Valles Marineris, the largest known canyon in our solar system at 2,480 miles long, 125 miles wide and 6 miles deep, “…that’s five times deeper than the Grand Canyon and long enough to stretch across the entire contiguous United States,” observes Universe Today in article about Martian canyon, “Valles Marineris: The Grandest Canyon of All.”…