2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-color image highlights the dust and soil disturbed by the impact in blue in order to make details more visible to the human eye. NASA lander on ...
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...
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On June 25, 1995 the NASA administration included the test photoshoot of the Martian face in the program flight of Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The mission control received the long-awaited photos on April 5th, 1998. The spacecraft took pictures of the face from the height of 440 kilomet...
MRO’s HiRise camera gets all the glory, but it’s another onboard camera, the Context Camera (CTX), that is the real workhorse. The CTX is a much lower resolution than the HiRise, but its file sizes are much more manageable, an important consideration when every file has to travel ...
NASA/JPL/MSSS/Google This image shows a high-resolution view of layered materials and collapse features on the floor of Eden Patera. The layers represent areas where lava in an ancient lava lake attached to ridges and hills in the floor of the crater, froze against the bedrock, and then...
These ice spiders are lying just outside the region captured in the new Mars Express images. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has also repeatedly photographed the spiders. Another European spacecraft known as the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has taken detailed pictures of the ice spiders as well...
This sequence took approximately seven minutes, an interval referred to in NASA circles as the “seven minutes of terror” because of fears that errors during this stage would compromise the entire mission and years of work. Curiosity does not rely on solar cells for its energy needs but ...
The Third International Convention of the Mars Society REAL-TIME TELEVISION QUALITY FULL MOTION VIDEO FOR MARS MISSIONS John F. McGowan III, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 233-18, Moffett Field, CA 94035-10000 ABSTRACT Neither manned landings nor short-range robotic probes such as Mars Pathfinder...
“that’s the real thrust—if i may make a pun—of this project,” says aboobaker. ideally, this small system will help them learn about how to scale the technology up for future missions. we don’t know when humans might need that oxygen, or whether those rock-filled sample tubes ...