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Oct 21, 2014 14:41:31 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Oct 25, 2014 13:55:21 GMT -6
www.davidreneke.com/an-all-female-mission-to-mars/#An All-Female Mission to Mars by Dave Reneke Oct 25th, 2014 February of 1960, the American magazine Look ran a cover story that asked, “Should a Girl Be First in Space?” It was a sensational headline representing an audacious idea at the time. And as we all know, the proposal fell short. In 1961, NASA sent Alan Shepard above the stratosphere, followed by dozens of other spacemen over the next two decades. Only in 1983 did Sally Ride become America’s first female astronaut to launch. But why would anyone think a woman would be the first to space, anyway? Medical studies, for one thing. Some studies in the 1950s and ’60s suggested female bodies had stronger hearts and could better withstand vibrations and radiation exposure. Moreover, psychological studies suggested that women coped better than men in isolation and when deprived of sensory inputs. A Matter Of DollarsSome of these investigations were limited in their design and sample sizes. But there was another, more compelling reason that women might outshine men as potential astronauts: basic economics. Thanks to their size, women are, on average, cheaper to launch and fly than men. As a NASA guinea pig, I had the chance to verify this firsthand. Last year I took part in a NASA-funded research project called HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). It required that I and five other crewmembers live as astronauts on the surface of Mars. We didn’t leave Earth, obviously, but for four months we were cooped up in a geodesic dome on the side of the very red, very rocky, very Mars-like Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. Our food, water, power, and communications were limited, and we were only allowed to exit the habitat if we wore mock spacesuits. So many Martian hassles, so little glory. This was the first HI-SEAS mission—a third starts this month—and it was designed mainly to study the types of food Mars explorers might eat. I was the crew writer, blogging for Discover and the Economist, and since I had the scientific background and interest, I conducted a sleep study, too. I collected and managed the crew’s sleep data over the course of the experiment. One device we used to track sleep was the sensor armband from BodyMedia, which also provides estimates of daily and weekly caloric expenditure. While I didn’t know which data belonged to which subject due to anonymity requirements, I could see each subject’s sex. Over time I noticed a trend. Counting CaloriesWeek in and week out, the three female crew members expended less than half the calories of the three male crew members. Less than half! We were all exercising roughly the same amount—at least 45 minutes a day for five consecutive days a week—but our metabolic furnaces were calibrated in radically different ways. During one week, the most metabolically active male burned an average of 3,450 calories per day, while the least metabolically active female expended 1,475 calories per day. It was rare for a woman on crew to burn 2,000 calories in a day and common for male crew members to exceed 3,000. CONTINUE READING: www.davidreneke.com/an-all-female-mission-to-mars/#
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Oct 25, 2014 20:01:01 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Oct 25, 2014 20:01:01 GMT -6
If they ever have an all female mission to Mars I want to be on it!
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Nov 26, 2014 16:15:59 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Nov 26, 2014 16:15:59 GMT -6
au.ibtimes.com/articles/574079/20141126/woman-former-nasa-employee-humans-mars-1979.htm#.VHZQuGdNfFx Woman Claiming To Be Former NASA Employee Says She Saw Humans Walking On Mars In 1979 By Afza Fathima | November 26, 2014 8:00 PM EST A woman named "Jackie," who claims to be a former NASA employee, called Coast to Coast AM in the U.S. She claimed she had seen evidence of two human figures walking towards the Viking lander on Mars in 1979. The "former NASA employee" asked the radio show presenter to solve a 27-year-old mystery for her. She claimed she had worked for NASA and that her job was to handle the downlink telemetry from the lander. The Viking lander was the first vehicle to send back pictures of the surface of the Red Planet. She said that while she was working, she saw two people walking across the Martian surface. She continued that she and six colleagues were watching the footage of the Viking rover moving around on multiple screens when she noticed two men in spacesuits walking to the Viking Explorer from the horizon. She added the men's suits looked protective but unlike what astronauts wore. The "former NASA employee" said she and her colleagues were maintaining the equipment when suddenly the video feed got cut off. She went on to say that when they ran upstairs, they found the door was locked and paper was taped over the door so nothing could be seen. She posed a question to the radio presenter asking whether or not the two men she saw were guys from NASA. The agency has yet to comment on the claim. Blogs that report on UFO and conspiracy theories have backed the "former NASA employee." They claimed humans had been on Mars to polish off the lander's solar panels. Metro.co.uk wrote that this seemed off because if the humans were there, they could have filled petrol into the lander or take photos themselves. A few other conspiracy theorists claimed that in the sixties, there were secret landings on Mars. They further claimed that the Apollo landings were a cover-up for wider exploration of the solar system. An audio recording, titled "NASA Worker Sees Men Walking Over To Viking Lander On Mars", was posted on YouTube by YouTube channel Starman Chronicles. The video has managed to get more than 11,000 views and about 16 comments as of this writing. Listen to the audio recording below: au.ibtimes.com/articles/574079/20141126/woman-former-nasa-employee-humans-mars-1979.htm#.VHZQuGdNfFx
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Nov 26, 2014 21:55:35 GMT -6
Post by lois on Nov 26, 2014 21:55:35 GMT -6
This is kind of hard for me to believe but I do believe Armstrong saw buildings on the Moon. He took it with him. He stayed loyal. I never thought that video was a fake. It could be aliens this woman seen. I doubt it was human beings. Ufos are around that planet. Just too many videos I think for all of them to be fake.
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Nov 27, 2014 10:45:13 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 10:45:13 GMT -6
This isn't something I'll rush to believe....or disbelieve. I don't believe we had that kind of technology in that era (in the first place) and in the second place..I can almost 'see' a bunch of people sitting around listening to coast to coast and laughing..convincing themselves to call in for a joke. Coast to Coast always has been a joke to a lot of people. . I believe that Mars was inhabited..but not for a moment do I think there are permanent buildings there. I can understand why the government is always suspect...they're self serving..greedy, power hungry fools. But they don't play well together. Now a perfectly good idea would be to send ALL politicians to Mars...but there would only be more because there is no end of that profile type. Other countries would find out and there would be hell to pay over weapons bases on other planets. Nope..it just doesn't make sense. As for aliens being there..doesn't much matter to us..we're not likely to visit any time soon.
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Dec 3, 2014 14:42:53 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 3, 2014 14:42:53 GMT -6
www.ndtv.com/article/world/alien-rock-brimming-with-traces-of-life-on-mars-629230Alien Rock Brimming With Traces of Life on MarsWorld | Indo- Asian News Service Updated: December 03, 2014 London: An international team has performed a detailed analysis of organic carbon traces from a Martian meteorite, concluding that life on Red Planet is more probable than previously thought. The scientists argue that carbon could have been deposited into the fissures of the rock when it was still on Mars by the infiltration of fluid that was rich in organic matter. "So far, there is no other theory that we find more compelling," said Philippe Gillet, director of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)'s Earth and Planetary Sciences Laboratory. Ejected from Mars after an asteroid crashed on its surface, the meteorite, named Tissint fell on the Moroccan desert July 18, 2011. The alien rock was found to have small fissures that were filled with carbon-containing matter. Several research teams have already shown that this component is organic in nature but they are still debating where the carbon came from. The new study that included researchers from China, Japan and Germany showed that the carbon content were deposited in the Tissint's fissures before it left Mars. A more likely explanation is that liquids containing organic compounds of biological origin infiltrated Tissint's "mother" rock at low temperatures near the Martian surface. "Insisting on certainty is unwise, particularly on such a sensitive topic. However, our conclusions are such that they will rekindle the debate as to the possible existence of biological activity on Mars - at least in the past," Gillet argued. The paper appeared in the scientific journal Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences. www.ndtv.com/article/world/alien-rock-brimming-with-traces-of-life-on-mars-629230
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Dec 3, 2014 16:40:02 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2014 16:40:02 GMT -6
I believe that
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Dec 4, 2014 15:44:57 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 4, 2014 15:44:57 GMT -6
www.universetoday.com/116847/gallery-mars-needs-you-help-scientists-track-spring-thaw-on-red-planet/ Mars Needs You! Help Scientists Track Spring Thaw On Red Planetby Elizabeth Howell December 3, 2014 Carbon dioxide ice begins to feel the heat in the south pole region every spring. In this image of 'Inca City' taken in August 2014, you can see a few fans coming out from channels (araneiforms) that are created when pressurized gas escapes from the melting ice. Picture taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Carbon dioxide ice begins to feel the heat in the south pole region every spring. In this image of ‘Inca City’ taken in August 2014, you can see a few fans coming out from channels (araneiforms) that are created when pressurized gas escapes from the melting ice. Picture taken Aug. 6, 2014 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona We’ve been watching Mars with spacecraft for about 50 years, but there’s still so little we know about the Red Planet. Take this sequence of images in this post recently taken by a powerful camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Spring arrives in the southern hemisphere and produces a bunch of mysteries, such as gray-blue streaks you can see in a picture below. That’s where citizen scientists can come in, according to a recent post for the University of Arizona’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that took these pictures. They’re asking people with a little spare time to sign up for Planet Four (a Zooniverse project) www.planetfour.org/ to look at mysterious Mars features. With amateurs and professionals working together, maybe we’ll learn more about these strange changes you see below. MORE PHOTOS & CONTINUE READING: www.universetoday.com/116847/gallery-mars-needs-you-help-scientists-track-spring-thaw-on-red-planet/ SIGN UP NOW: www.planetfour.org/
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Dec 4, 2014 17:07:10 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 4, 2014 17:07:10 GMT -6
www.wired.com/2014/11/aerospace-gurus-show-fancy-space-suit-made-mars/?utm_content=buffer7d114&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Aerospace Gurus Show Off a Fancy Space Suit Made for Mars By Kyle VanHemert 11.05.14 | This talk is from WIRED by Design, a two-day live magazine event that celebrated all forms of creative problem solving. The space suits astronauts wear today are marvels of engineering, but they’re far from perfect. For one thing, they’re unwieldy. At a weight of nearly 300 pounds, astronauts have to expend a huge amount of energy just to move them around. “It was great for 45 years ago, but we can do better,” says Dava Newman. Newman, an MIT aerospace engineer who was recently nominated for the role of NASA deputy administrator, is working on next-generation suits that would give astronauts far greater mobility—the type of equipment that would be instrumental to a manned mission to Mars. At WIRED by Design, Newman and her partner Gui Trotti showed off one such concept. Dubbed the BioSuit, it would replace today’s bulky gas-pressurized get-ups with a form-fitting “soft exoskeleton.” By tapping advanced materials and relying on a mathematically-informed fit, the BioSuit could someday allow astronauts to explore the solar system with unprecedented freedom. As Newman puts it: “It is literally a second-skin suit.” For more on WIRED by Design, visit live.wired.com. WATCH VIDEO: www.wired.com/2014/11/aerospace-gurus-show-fancy-space-suit-made-mars/?utm_content=buffer7d114&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Dec 12, 2014 17:14:06 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 12, 2014 17:14:06 GMT -6
"Journey To Space" 2015 movie trailer"Journey To Space," coming to large-format 3D movie screens in February 2015, tells the exciting story of what the next chapter of space exploration will bring. (K2 Films/Giant Screen Films)"Journey To Space" 2015 movie trailer Dec 12, 2014 collectSPACE.com — When the last space shuttle landed in 2011, it was actually the beginning of a new era of human spaceflight, with new mission preparations by NASA and the international space community that will take astronauts beyond low earth orbit back to the moon, to asteroids, and to Mars within a generation. "Journey to Space" puts the enormous contributions of the shuttle program into an historical context of humankind’s continuing aspiration to explore the unknown, and provides a visually stunning scenario developed by leading experts on exactly how astronauts will get to Mars, live there for two years, and safely return to earth. The film will both inspire a new generation of young people to dream of new horizons in space, and foster a new appreciation for the accomplishments of the shuttle program among an older generation who came to take it for granted. Read more: www.collectspace.com/news/news-121214a-journey-to-space-movie.html
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Dec 14, 2014 12:47:57 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Dec 14, 2014 12:47:57 GMT -6
Weird Circular Feature on Mars Looks Like a Giant Pie by Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer December 07, 2014
A NASA Mars probe has photographed a strange Red Planet landform that resembles a freshly baked pie.
The mysterious circular feature on Mars, which was imaged by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), lies in the "Athabasca" region near the Martian equator and measures about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) wide. It appears to be an island in a sea of relatively smooth lava and possibly had a volcanic origin, NASA officials say.
"Perhaps lava has intruded underneath this mound and pushed it up from beneath. It looks as if material is missing from the mound, so it is also possible that there was a significant amount of ice in the mound that was driven out by the heat of the lava," NASA officials wrote in a description of the image, which was released on Wednesday (Dec. 3).
"There are an array of features like this in the region that continue to puzzle scientists," they added. "We hope that close inspection of this HiRISE image, and others around it, will provide some clues regarding its formation."
Volcanism has played a major role in shaping the Martian surface over the eons, and some scientists think the planet may still be volcanically active today. Mars hosts the largest volcanoes in the solar system; the biggest of them all, Olympus Mons, rises about 16 miles (26 kilometers) into the Red Planet sky. Olympus Mons is about three times taller than Earth's loftiest peak, Mount Everest.
The $720 million MRO mission launched in August 2005 and arrived in orbit around the Red Planet in March 2006. In addition to studying and photographing Mars in great detail, the MRO spacecraft also serves as a vital communications link between NASA's two operational Mars rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity, and their handlers back on Earth.
MRO is one of five active probes circling Mars at the moment. The other three are NASA's Mars Odyssey and MAVEN spacecraft, India's Mangalyaan probe and Europe's Mars Express.
www.space.com/27939-weird-mars-pie-landform-mro-photo.html
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Jan 18, 2015 13:12:00 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 18, 2015 13:12:00 GMT -6
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150116-beagle-mars-found-space-science/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20150116news-marsspace&utm_campaign=Content&sf6973324=1
Missing Spacecraft Found on Mars After 11-Year Search Europe's Beagle 2 is sitting on the Martian surface, dead but mostly intact.by Michael D. Lemonick / for National Geographic Published January 16, 2015 Missing for more than a decade, the Beagle 2 spacecraft has been spotted on Mars by an orbiter's camera. The lander and its parachute and cover (shown) made it to the surface, but the probe never made radio contact with Earth. Photograph by NASA, JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona/University of Leicester The European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander, which vanished from contact after setting down on the red planet on Christmas Day 2003, has been found at last. The find solves a mystery of more than a decade—whether and where the craft landed—but has yet to explain why Beagle 2 never established radio contact. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the craft's remains from space, lying with its solar panels partially deployed about three miles (4.8 kilometers) from its intended landing site. The Beagle lies in the Isidis Planitia region of Mars, at the edge of a long-vanished ocean. "Every Christmas Day since 2003 I have wondered what happened to Beagle 2," said Mark Sims, of the U.K.'s University of Leicester, the mission manager, in a statement. "To be frank, I had all but given up hope of ever knowing." The mission of the Beagle 2, named in honor of Charles Darwin's H.M.S. Beagle, was to look for signs that life might have thrived here billions of years ago. Graphic of Mars spacecraft For decades, spacecraft have been flying by, orbiting, and roving across the red planet. It's hardly the first Mars probe to go missing: The history of space exploration is full of examples—perhaps most famously NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, which overshot the planet entirely in 1999 because one team of engineers did its calculations in English units (that is, feet and miles) and another used the metric system. Another NASA probe, Mars Observer, was lost in 1992, most likely because a fuel pipe exploded as the craft approached the red planet, sending it into an uncontrolled spin. "It is difficult to land on Mars, there's no doubt about it," said Colin Pillinger of the U.K.'s Open University, Beagle 2's lead scientist, at a press conference shortly after the probe was lost. "You are facing hazards that you cannot quantify and you cannot prejudge." Pillinger died last May without ever knowing the fate of his spacecraft. CONTINUE READING: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150116-beagle-mars-found-space-science/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20150116news-marsspace&utm_campaign=Content&sf6973324=1
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Jan 24, 2015 15:05:04 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jan 24, 2015 15:05:04 GMT -6
Mars Rover Opportunity Marks 11-Year Anniversary with Stunning Photoby Mike Wall, Space.com January 23, 2015 NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 11 years on Mars Saturday (Jan. 24), and the robot's handlers are marking the occasion with a gorgeous paannamic photo that Opportunity took of its Red Planet home. Opportunity landed on Mars on the night of Jan. 24, 2004, a few weeks after its twin, Spirit, made its Red Planet debut.
Opportunity took a number of photos with its paannamic camera while at the summit of Cape Tribulation. Mission team members combined some of these images into a mosaic, which NASA released Thursday (Jan. 22) to mark the 11-year anniversary.
Opportunity held its robotic arm so that a small American flag printed on the rover would be visible in the photos, NASA officials said. "The flag is printed on the aluminum cable guard of the rover's rock abrasion tool, which is used for grinding away weathered rock surfaces to expose fresh interior material for examination," agency officials wrote in a description of the image. "The flag is intended as a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York."
"The aluminum used for the cable guard was recovered from the site of the twin towers in the weeks following the attacks," they added. "Workers at Honeybee Robotics in lower Manhattan, less than a mile from the World Trade Center, were making the rock abrasion tool for Opportunity and NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, in September 2001."NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the photos that make up the paannama from the top of Cape Tribulation, a segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater, in January 2015. This version of the paannama is in false color, to highlight differences in surface materials. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State UnivThis photo doesn't do it justice. To get the full impact, go to the web page shown below and see the enlarged version.
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Mar 18, 2015 11:08:20 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Mar 18, 2015 11:08:20 GMT -6
Mars One Finalist Explains Exactly How It‘s Ripping Off Supporters
No money, no process, no explanation: An insider speaks out on the hopelessly flawed scheme. By Elmo Keep
When Joseph first signed up with Mars One — the media-hyped, one-way mission to colonize the red planet being floated by a Dutch non-profit — he didn’t think much of it. The former NASA researcher said he never really took the application seriously; he was just putting his hat in the ring mostly out of curiosity, and with the hope of bringing public attention to space science.
But eventually Joseph — who is actually Dr. Joseph Roche, an assistant professor at Trinity College’s School of Education in Dublin, with a Ph.D. in physics and astrophysics — found himself on the group’s shortlist of 100 candidates all willing to undertake the theoretical journey. And that’s when he started talking to me about the big problems he was seeing with Mars One.
It was difficult for him to break his silence, but he was spurred into speaking out by the uncritical news coverage. Many basic assumptions about the project remain unchallenged. Most egregiously, many media outlets continue to report that Mars One received applications from 200,000 people who would be happy to die on another planet — when the number it actually received was 2,761.
“When you join the ‘Mars One Community,’ which happens automatically if you applied as a candidate, they start giving you points,” Roche explained to me in an email. “You get points for getting through each round of the selection process (but just an arbitrary number of points, not anything to do with ranking), and then the only way to get more points is to buy merchandise from Mars One or to donate money to them.”
“Community members” can redeem points by purchasing merchandise like T-shirts, hoodies, and posters, as well as through gifts and donations: The group also solicits larger investment from its supporters. Others have been encouraged to help the group make financial gains on flurries of media interest. In February, finalists received a list of “tips and tricks” for dealing with press requests, which included this: “If you are offered payment for an interview then feel free to accept it. We do kindly ask for you to donate 75% of your profit to Mars One.”
The result, said Roche, is that high-profile prospects — including those in a list of “Top 10 hopefuls” published last month in The Guardian — are, in fact, simply the people who have generated the most money for Mars One. A spokeswoman confirmed by email that the positions were “based on the supporter points that our community can earn,” but said that “this number of points is unrelated to our selection process.”
As Roche also told me, that secretive selection process is hopelessly, and dangerously, flawed.
“I have not met anyone from Mars One in person,” he said. “Initially they’d said there were going to be regional interviews… we would travel there, we’d be interviewed, we’d be tested over several days, and in my mind that sounded at least like something that approached a legitimate astronaut selection process.
“But then they made us sign a non-disclosure agreement if we wanted to be interviewed, and then all of a sudden it changed from being a proper regional interview over several days to being a 10-minute Skype call.”
So, here are the facts as we understand them: Mars One has almost no money. Mars One has no contracts with private aerospace suppliers who are building technology for future deep-space missions. Mars One has no TV production partner. Mars One has no publicly known investment partnerships with major brands. Mars One has no plans for a training facility where its candidates would prepare themselves. Mars One’s candidates have been vetted by a single person, in a 10-minute Skype interview.
“My nightmare about it is that people continue to support it and give it money and attention, and it then gets to the point where it inevitably falls on its face,” said Roche. If, as a result, “people lose faith in NASA and possibly even in scientists, then that’s the polar opposite of what I’m about. If I was somehow linked to something that could do damage to the public perception of science, that is my nightmare scenario.”
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Mar 18, 2015 21:02:07 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Mar 18, 2015 21:02:07 GMT -6
Did anybody ever have any doubts that it was a rip off? We haven't even sent anybody to Mars yet and these clowns are already talking about colonizing it? Yeah...right...suuuuuuuuure.
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Mar 19, 2015 13:23:47 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 13:23:47 GMT -6
I have an acre parcel on Mars I'm willing to let go for the amazing price of $523 Trillion in gold. Garden spot..has it's own stream full of rare snapping trout..and a small forest teaming with Mars Ducks. Apply by email.
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Apr 3, 2015 11:10:34 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 3, 2015 11:10:34 GMT -6
www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/279948/new-engine-could-take-us-to-mars-in-39-days New engine could take us to Mars in 39 daysPosted on Thursday, 2 April, 2015 Ad Astra's engine could shorten the time it takes to reach Mars. Image Credit: NASA/Pat Rawlings NASA has revealed a partnership with the firm behind a new super-fast deep space engine. Ad Astra, a Texas-based rocket company, surprised everyone when it unveiled a remarkable new type of engine that could cut the travel time of a mission to Mars from months to just weeks. NASA successfully test fired a prototype of the VASIMR engine back in 2013 and now Ad Astra has become one of the space agency's newest partners in the hopes of developing the technology to the point where it can be used in actual space missions. "Commercial partners were selected for their technical ability to mature key technologies and their commitment to the potential applications both for government and private sector uses," said NASA's William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations. "This work ultimately will inform the strategy to move human presence further into the solar system." If all goes well the new engine could drastically reduce the time it takes to get to Mars, opening up the possibility of shorter, cheaper manned missions in the not-too-distant future. "We are thrilled by this announcement and proud to be joining forces with NASA in the final steps of the technology maturation," said Ad Astra CEO Dr Franklin Chang Diaz. "We look forward to a very successful partnership as we jointly advance the technology to flight readiness." MORE INFO: sputniknews.com/science/20150402/1020349394.html
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Apr 14, 2015 13:11:16 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2015 13:11:16 GMT -6
www.space.com/29095-space-taxes-mars-colonists.html?cmpid=514648IRS in Space: How Will We Tax a Mars Mission?by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer April 14, 2015 WASHINGTON – Paying taxes is an inescapable reality — even in space. Taxes are going to play a big role in a Mars mission, both in getting there and upon arrival, Adam Chodorow, a law professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, said April 9 at an event hosted by Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the nonprofit New America Foundation and Arizona State University. "Taxes matter, and the way we colonize space will probably be driven by the tax system," Chodorow told the audience. "We're heading to Mars soon, so we need to be thinking seriously" about the role taxes will play, he added. Humanity will almost certainly rely on private enterprise to build the ships to get humans to the Red Planet, he said. Companies may go to Wall Street for funding, but investors won't send capital to outer space without making some profit, so the government will probably provide support in the form of tax breaks. [Life in Space: An Astronaut's Video Guide] "To get [to Mars], we're probably going to be giving tax incentives to ships," Chodorow told Space.com in an interview. "Once we get there, if you're a U.S. citizen or U.S. company, you will owe taxes on the money you make," he added. The U.S. tax system gives money back in two ways: deductions and credits. A tax deduction offers indirect relief by reducing the amount of taxable income, whereas a tax credit directly reduces the amount of tax owed, Chodorow explained. CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/29095-space-taxes-mars-colonists.html?cmpid=514648
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May 16, 2015 14:39:20 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 16, 2015 14:39:20 GMT -6
www.space.com/29414-mars-colony-science-fiction-authors.html?adbid=599288166936223744&adbpl=tw&adbpr=15431856&cmpid=514648_20150515_45879806&short_code=3028tWhy Colonize Mars? Sci-Fi Authors Weigh Inby Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor / www.space.com/contact_author.php?a=Uld4cGVtRmlaWFJvSUVodmQyVnNiQ3BqYjI1MFlXTjBLalFxWld4cGVtRmlaWFJvYUc5M1pXeHNMbU5o May 15, 2015 Future Mars Explorers NASA aims to get astronauts to Mars by the 2030s. Credit: NASA/JSC Settling Mars could help humanity escape and mitigate the problems our species is facing here on Earth, several science-fiction authors said. Writer Tom Ligon, who publishes mostly in the magazine Analog Science Fiction and Fact, pointed out that Mars has many hazards, but no rattlesnakes, earthquakes, terrorists or wars. "It's hard to have forest fires over there," he said May 7 during a panel discussion at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, which was hosted by the nonprofit Explore Mars Inc. "The volcanoes are extinct, geologically pretty quiet. Mars is actually, in a lot of ways, a lot safer than Earth." [5 Manned Mission to Mars Ideas] Further, exploring the Red Planet could help solve some of the resource problems facing our own planet, novelist Michael Swanwick added. "We all are running out of a lot of different minerals, some of which our civilization depends on," said Swanwick, who has won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work. "Strange[ly] enough, there is the possibility of copper going extinct. There is a science-fiction idea for you." Beyond canals on Mars In the late 1800s and early 1900s, American astronomer Percival Lowell popularized the idea of canals on Mars. Lowell saw features on Mars that he believed were built by an advanced civilization to transport water around the Red Planet. This wrongheaded notion fueled intense science-fiction interest in Mars for decades. Visions of a water-poor planet populated with Martians influenced authors ranging from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ray Bradbury. While spacecraft observations showed that Mars didn't flow with vast amounts of water in the recent past, their close-up looks at the planet did reveal ancient volcanoes, smaller channels and other evidence of geological activity in the past, said Geoffrey Landis, whose day job is working on Mars missions at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. "Mars is not the planet of canals and Barsoomians that we thought, perhaps, in the early 1900s, but it is still interesting," he said. (Barsoomians are the Martian inhabitants in Burroughs' novels.) Exploring this uncharted territory is something that virtually every 17-year-old wants to do now, Swanwick said, adding that there are few opportunities to blaze new trails here on our increasingly crowded and heavily explored Earth. "If you can go on Mars," Swanwick said, "you can put on your suit and go someplace that nobody has been before ... a natural cry to the heart of every person in the world." CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/29414-mars-colony-science-fiction-authors.html?adbid=599288166936223744&adbpl=tw&adbpr=15431856&cmpid=514648_20150515_45879806&short_code=3028t
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May 22, 2015 11:35:17 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 22, 2015 11:35:17 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 22, 2015 11:54:02 GMT -6
Buzz Aldrin: How To Get Your *bleep* To Mars | VideoPublished on Jan 20, 2015 Apollo astronaut, orbital mechanic, and futurist Dr. Buzz Aldrin explains his unique ideas for human exploration and settlement of Mars in this freewheeling conversation with Space.com. (watch the full Google Hangout here: goo.gl/0cFd3I)
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May 24, 2015 12:30:18 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 24, 2015 12:30:18 GMT -6
www.universetoday.com/120353/what-makes-mars-sunsets-different-from-earths/absolutely beautiful... What Makes Mars Sunsets Different from Earth’s?by Bob King May 18, 2015 Sunset photographed from Gale Crater by the Mars Curiosity rover on April 15, 2015. The four images shown in sequence here were taken over a span of 6 minutes, 51 seconds using the left eye of the rover’s Mastcam. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Even robots can’t tear their eyes from a beautiful sunset. NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover pointed its high resolution mast camera at the setting Sun to capture this 4-image sequence on April 15 at the conclusion of the mission’s 956th Martian day. While it resembles an earthly sunset, closer inspection reveals alien oddities. A day on Mars lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes, so sunrise and sunset follow nearly the same rhythm as they do on Earth. When we eventually establish a base there, astronauts should be able to adjust to the planet’s day-night rhythm with relative ease. Jet lag would be worse. But sunsets and sunrises offer a different palette of colors than they would on Earth. For starters, the Sun only radiates the equivalent of a partly cloudy afternoon’s worth of light. That’s because Mars’ average distance from the Sun is 141.6 million miles or about half again Earth’s distance. Increased distance reduces the intensity of sunlight. Not only that, but the solar disk shrinks from the familiar 0.5° across we see from Earth to 0.35° at Mars. Here on the home planet, your little finger extended at arm’s length would cover the equivalent of two Suns. On Mars it would be three! MORE PICTURES & CONTINUE READING: www.universetoday.com/120353/what-makes-mars-sunsets-different-from-earths/ BLUE SUNSET ON MARS
Sunset on Mars photographed by the Opportunity Rover released earlier this year
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Jun 19, 2015 17:01:19 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2015 17:01:19 GMT -6
sen.com/news/ringing-in-the-martian-new-year-on-earth Ringing in the Martian new year on EarthDavid Dickinson, Correspondent / twitter.com/astroguyzJun 18, 2015 Sen—The planetary seasons are turning. While the summer solstice occurs this weekend for northern hemisphere residents on planet Earth on June 21, this week also marks the start of spring for the northern hemisphere of the planet Mars. The northward equinox on the Red Planet occurs on Thursday, June 18, 2015 and marks the start of the Martian new year. And this week, NASA plans on bringing the festivities to Earthlings, with a three-day celebration kicking off this Friday in the town of Mars, Pennsylvania. The extravaganza will feature exhibits, outreach activities and a keynote speech from NASA’s director of Planetary Science Jim Green. Green recently served as a technical consultant on the upcoming film adaptation of The Martian, now set to hit theatres on October 2 of this year. Martian years are reckoned from the start of the northward equinox, with Year One beginning on April 11, 1955. 2015 sees the start of Martian Year 33. In some aspects, seasons on Mars are similar to Earth: the planet rotates only 40 minutes faster than Earth, and its axis is tilted 25.2° relative to the plane of its orbit, versus Earth’s 23.4°. The similarities, however, end there. A Martian year is 690 Earth days long—about a month shy of two Earth years—and its orbit has a high eccentricity of nine per cent. Mars also does not enjoy the stabilizing effect of a large Moon such as Earth’s, meaning the tilt of its poles is subject to much wider variations than Earth’s over geologic time scales. In the current epoch, Mars reaches aphelion near its northern hemisphere summer solstice. This is another coincidence it currently shares with the Earth, as aphelion for 2015 on our planet occurs on July 6, 15 days after the June solstice. This also assures that the northern hemisphere climate is much more temperate than the southern. The cycle of the Martian year also dictates when we can launch spacecraft to Mars. This window occurs every 26 months, with the next mission slated to make the journey being NASA’s InSight lander. We’re also entering a cycle of favorable oppositions to observe Mars, with the July 27, 2018 opposition being nearly as close and favorable as the historic 2003 opposition. Happy Martian New Year! sen.com/news/ringing-in-the-martian-new-year-on-earth
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Jun 20, 2015 16:33:19 GMT -6
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NASA finds perfect pyramid on Mars (Video)A perfect pyramid has been spotted on Mars peeking out from the surface in a photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The small, triangular mound, eerily similar to others found on Earth, may be a capstone, or a grave marker. In either case, it's unlike any similar object found so far on the Red Planet. This pyramid was discovered by NASA on Mars ParanormalCrucible @youtube In this video, posted to YouTube on June 20, the pyramid formation is clearly seen rising above the surrounding Martian surface and is estimated to be the size of a small car. The video speculates it could be some kind of marker left by an intelligent life form inhabiting (or visiting) Mars in the past. The pyramid-shaped, rocky anomaly is nearly perfectly symmetrical on all sides, a naturally occurring geological formation which is rare on both Mars and Earth. And, it appears to have been built by assembling other rocks nearby, in a brick-like pattern, to form a nearly perfect triangle rising above the Martian landscape. The amazing image here is enhanced only by rotating the angle of the original photograph, published by NASA on its official Curiosity rover website. Paranormal investigators have taken to poring over these public images, looking for just such anomalies as this perfectly formed pyramid shape, which appears to have been made purposely by some unknown hand in the distant Martian past. Continue Reading : www.examiner.com/article/nasa-finds-perfect-pyramid-on-mars-video
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Jun 20, 2015 16:51:20 GMT -6
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Jun 20, 2015 17:22:35 GMT -6
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Jun 20, 2015 19:18:22 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Jun 20, 2015 19:18:22 GMT -6
Looks like a rock to me. They said it was a mugearite which is something that my rock-collecting self had never heard of. I had to look it up. It's some kind of volcanic basalt that forms in the presence of water which is more evidence that there must have been water on Mars at one point...but we already knew that decades ago.
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Jun 20, 2015 19:53:47 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jun 20, 2015 19:53:47 GMT -6
Well it has never been built. No stacking stones just one piece. Could be tiny like a rock. thanks Jo.
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