Gale Crater forms a large natural repository for a lot of Martian geologic history. This ancient impact scar has a diameter of about 150 kilometers (90 miles) and lies close to where the cratered highlands drop off onto the northern lowlands in Elysium. Based on its size and state of pres...
Mars Transit 10th Housewith Libra or Taurus Sun You may easily threaten those in authority if you push too hard and fast. Be wary of over-defensive behavior. You don’t have to defeat every small opposition. With time, your approach will have enough zip to rally people to your side easil...
The Mars schedule laid out Thursday indicated a more tentative approach to Mars exploration after the embarrassing failures at the end of last year of the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Climate Orbiter within three months of one another. Ed Weiler, head of NASA’s office of space science, ...
In the meantime, as the Mars-96 orbiter would make its closest approach to Mars within some 300 kilometers over 26 North latitude, its ADU engine would fire to slow it down by 1,020 meters per second in order to enter orbit around Mars with an inclination 106.4 degrees toward the Martian...
the computation of AV required for injection and rendez-vous maneuvers, a trade-off analysis among different Earth staging posts, including the use of Low Earth Orbit, Low Luna Orbit and Earth-Moon Lagrangian points, and an identification of close approach windows of the cycler with the two pla...
“The goals of the review are to make sure we’re on a firm foundation technically going forward, to review the concepts that have been developed to date, and also to look at the cost and schedule that we’re proposing and to make sure that they agree that we’ve got the right resour...
(Remember to allow your telescope's optics to cool to the outside temperature, so they don't become their own source of "boiling" air.) Mars won't be this close to Earth again until September 2035, a simple fact that motivates many a Mars-watcher to put eye to eyepiece every clear ...
Tensions may erupt in close relationships because one of you feels that you have been giving more, and not receiving enough in return, or one of you is more amorous than the other. Frustrated love desire can easily turn to anger or irritability at this time. Mars Transits Sextile or Trine...
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) and Odyssey probes were also expected to observe the comet's close pass. The space agency's Curiosity rover was also in position to study the comet. India's Mangalyaan orbiter circling Mars and Europe's Mars Express spacecraft were also ...
By the end of the third quarter 1968, the M-69 project was severely lagging behind its tight schedule. With the US getting ahead on all fronts of the space race, the Soviet government would not take no for an answer. At the peak of the spacecraft assembly, the work at NPO Lavochkin...