Mars !
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. This image was acquired on Sept. 27, 2024 (Sol 1282) at the local mean solar time of 11:50:05.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis !
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to capture this mosaic of Gediz Vallis, the 3,646th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
In the center of the valley in this image is a pile of boulders and debris that may have been swept there by flowing water billions of years ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Jupiter Meets Mars !
A meteor streaks across the night sky above Leeberg hill during the Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2023 in Grossmugl, Austria.
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Getty Images
Jupiter meets Mars !
Jupiter and Mars will be separated by just a third of a degree on Aug. 14.
Image credit: Haitong Yu
“Dragon to Mars”
Concept art of sending Dragon to Mars.
Original from Official SpaceX Photos. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Five Meters over Mars !
During the flight the Mars Helicopter hovered about 5 meters, or just over 16 feet, above the Jezero crater floor. Tips of Ingenuity's landing legs peek over the left and right edges in the camera's field of view.
Tracks visible near the upper right corner lead to the Perseverance Mars Rover, seen looking on from a distance at the top right edge of the frame.
Image Credit: Nasa, JPL-Caltech, Ingenuity
Martian winter wonderland
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Mars “Olympus” Mons,
© NASA/MOLA Science Team/ O. de Goursac, Adrian Lark
City on Mars by Lenz Architects
Life on Mars, study by the University of Arizona and French universities,
The researchers finds that the ancient Mars could have been home to living organisms had the planet itself not self-destructed with its self-produced climate change. Regis Ferrière states that young Mars was full of carbon dioxide and hydrogen enough to have likely created a temperature climate where water could flow and microbial life could thrive.
However, the authors remind the readers that their argument is not about life existing on early Mars, and even if it was, the study shows that early Mars would very likely have been habitable to methanogenic microbes, or microorganisms that convert carbon dioxide to methane.
They are stating that it could be possible that living organisms survived the harsh conditions of the ancient Mars – again, methanogenic microbes. These microbes exist in extreme habitats on Earth like hydrothermal vents along fissures in the ocean floor.
Mars would have been warm and wet than its current cold and dry climate of it because of the large concentrations of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, both strong greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
Image courtesy of the researchers: Boris Sauterey, Benjamin Charnay, Antonin Affholder, Stéphane Mazevet, Régis Ferrière.
“Dragon to Mars”
Concept art of sending Dragon to Mars.
Original from Official SpaceX Photos. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
“Moonglass” & “Marsglass”
Japanese researchers have created a design for artificial gravity buildings to be installed on theMoon and Mars , which could help reduce human health risks on future missions.
The proposal is the creation of gigantic rotating structures that would create the effect of gravity similar to Earth's through centripetal force (points to the center of the circulatory movement).
To provide the gravity we’re used to on our home world, the tower would spin on its central axis at a rate of one rotation every 20 seconds.
If constructed, the glass towers would stand 400 meters tall (roughly the height of the Empire State Building in New York City) and 100 meters wide.
Several floors of the rotating buildings are surrounded by liquid water and land with trees, creating a mini-biome with water and carbon cycles to sustain human populations. In addition, the researchers proposed a transport system called Hexatrack, which maintains Earth-like gravity.
These are self-contained train cars that are injected into stations and then inserted into a rotating hexagonal capsule that also generates centripetal force as it travels across the planet.
This type of rotational motion that simulates gravity is already used in G-force tests in the training of astronauts and fighter pilots.
Developed by a research team from Kyoto University’s SIC Manned Cosmology Research Center and Kajima Corporation
‘An Alien Doorway on Mars’
As captured by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 .
Image courtesy NASA
Domoni Crater, Mars,
This impact crater is 13.8 km-diameter and located 51.38N, 234.39E.
Credit: Data Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/USGS Data Sources; Processing: Kevin M. Gill
‘An Alien Doorway on Mars’
As captured by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 .
Image courtesy NASA
ILO (Identified Levitating Object), Mars,
ILO station, using local materials, can produce the necessary modules and transport them to other bases. By collecting wind and solar energy, the station can conduct long-term exploration of the planet. Constant magnetic levitation allows you not to waste energy on takeoff and overcome difficult landscape obstacles.
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Take a moment to marvel at this: I captured my first view of a Martian sunset with my Mastcam-Z. It’s easy to be go-go-go all the time, but it’s also important to look up.
NASA Mars rover
