perhaps the mostnotoriouscase beingOrson Welles’s radio-play production of H.G. Wells’s novelWar of the Worlds, which convinced thousands of unwitting listeners on the evening of October 30, 1938, that beings from Mars were invading Earth. The planet’s mystique and many real mysteries remai...
But the advent of VR headsets, even simple ones of the Google Cardboard variety, heightens the realism, and adds considerably to the illusion that you’rethereon the Martian surface. What’s more, we can now go back to old landing sites and view them with this new technology. Here, for ...
Scientists also presented information on the minerals and elements that make up the planet's surface, including measurements that show its northern hemisphere is richer in water than its southern half. Near the planet's north pole, frozen water makes up as much as 75 percent, by volume, of ...
For the real part of the refractive index, we use values from Warren and Brandt79. For martian dust, we incorporate the spectral absorption properties derived by Wolff et al. 80. Optical properties of snow, firn, and glacier ice mixtures with dust are computed using the method of Khuller ...
But new research from Mars scientists suggests water flowed on the red planet 2 billion years ago, or 1 billion years later than researchers supposed. This means Martian life — if any ever existed — could have had significantly more time to dwell, or evolve, on Mars' surface. "Mars ...
HRSC on Mars Express [1] is the first camera designed specifically for stereo imaging to be used in mapping a planet other than the Earth. Nine detectors view the planet through a single lens to obtain four-band color coverage and stereo images at 3 to 5 distinct angles in a single pass...
(retrograde motion) for about 80 days every two years. Mars is retrograde 9% of the time, which is very low compared to the other superior planets, which average about 38% and even Mercury at 19%. This rarity is one reason Mars is the most challenging planet when retrograde. We are ...
David Martines claims he was looking around Google Mars when he happened to find a large building-like structure in the northern hemisphere of the planet. He calls it "Bio-Station Alpha," which of course is not its real name, but he assumes someone or something is living in it. Martines...
Today we consider Mars, the next planet in our journey through the Solar System. Apart from the Earth, it’s the most explored planet in our Solar System. Even now there are rovers crawling the surface, orbiters overhead, and a lander on its way. It’s a cold, dry desert, so why ...
Planet-wide dust storms are a relatively rare occurrence on Mars, taking place every three to four Martian years (the equivalent of approximately 6 to 8 Earth years). Such storms have been viewed many times in the past by missions likeMariner9(1971),VikingI(1971) and theMars Global Surveyor...