The area around Mars received endless cooling as SpaceX’s “starman,” the spacecraft-sports-man behind Elon Musk’s solar system-traveling Tesla Roadster, this week, created the first intimate flyby of the Red Planet, 5 million miles. Two years ago, Starman’s Tesla was secured in the second phase of the Falcon Heavy Rocket to …
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Pulling into a valley on Mars, scientists have discovered a wind-filled area of solid sand, which turned to rock about a billion years ago. Despite the drastic decline, time has survived significantly in this stable plain of the Paleo-Dunes, which is longer than the fossil waves of sand on Earth, …
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It’s a good month for stargazing. First with a full harvest moon, then with a rare blue moon on Halloween, and now, it’s the red planet’s turn to steal the show. Mars will be closer to Earth than usual tonight, and will look bigger and brighter than it has for …
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Mars, our second closest cosmic cousin, has been in our collective imagination for decades. Between the fantasies of visiting Mars and the promise of water under its icy surface, Mars doesn’t have to do much to stay in our collective good books. But very soon, Mars is moving not only …
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Two years ago, astronomers Report findings A huge lake beneath a thick layer of ice at the south pole of Mars. Now, scientists have confirmed that three new underground lakes have been discovered and detected in the same area – and they believe there may be many more. A new …
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