Articles Tagged with mars

Mars Curiosity Finds More Evidence Of Water

Mars curiosity rover finds more water

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has continued to find new evidence of water and the possibility that the red planet was once hospitable to life, the space agency announced today at a briefing at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. Last Tuesday, Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, made… Read more »

Inspiration Mars Will Fight Radiation With Bathroom Waste

Inspiration Mars

The Inspiration Mars spacecraft will fight the red planet’s high levels of radiation with the help of human excrement. Project leader and millionaire explorer Dennis Tito recently announced plans to fly space tourists by Mars in 2018, and now the logistical challenged of that 501-day round trip flight are being revealed. Scientists working on the… Read more »

Life On Mars? Probably Not, Some Scientists Say

Life on Mars? Some say nay

The possibility for life on Mars has been officially shot down by (some) scientists who now say that the red planet is far to hot to have ever hosted living organisms. Planetary scientists have been looking in clays for the building blocks of life on the red planet, with some believing that water may have… Read more »

Family Of Five Shifts To Living On Mars Time

Family of Five Shifts to Living on Mars Time

A family of five has decided to change their entire daily schedules and have adjusted to Mars time. Newser reports that, since the landing of NASA’s most recent Mars rover, Flight Director David Oh and his family have decided to sync their internal clocks with Mars. Scientists and engineers adjust their schedule to Mars time… Read more »

Britney Spears Receives Message From Mars

Britney Spears Tweets To Mars

We always knew Britney Spears was a little bit spacey, but we never thought she would receive a message from Mars. The Britney Spears Mars message arrived by way of the Curiosity rover, NASA’s recently touched down space toy which is capable of vaporizing rock with its laser system while running on a nuclear battery…. Read more »

NASA Confirms: Curiosity Rover Captured Own Crash On Camera

Mars Rover Impact Coincidence Confirmed

NASA scientists have confirmed that the Mars rover did indeed catch its own crash-landing on the red planet. When the discovery was first made analysts believed the capture was a statistical impossibility however NASA officials conducted a thorough review of landing data and confirmed the photographic evidence. In order to complete its complex landing the… Read more »

Mars ‘Curiosity’ Rover Sends Back First Landing Video

Mars Rover Curiosity First Photo

On Monday afternoon the NASA Mars rover known as Curiosity made its decent to Mars and the entire event was captured via hundreds of snapshots. Described as “seven minutes of terror” the event included the Mars rover shedding its heat shield and ended with a big pile of dust being kicked up on the planets… Read more »

Mars And Other Planets Revealed In Sound Thanks To Mathematical Computations

Planetary Sounds

For more than 40 years scientists have been exploring space using modern technology for the purposes of human exploration, probes and atmosphere hovering satellites and while those explorations have returned beautiful photographs and even a few other worldly samples the actual sounds of planets have eluded scientists. Now scientists working at the University of Southampton… Read more »