You should watch this animation of how Perseverance will land on Mars this week. Really.
image: NASA/JPL (screengrab from video)
Iceland?
Recent study suggests early Mars may have been very much like Iceland.
Food for thought…
I see what they did there…
Ridiculous title, but the science behind it is quite interesting. Decades old data from Voyager 2 as it passed by Uranus suggests the planet is losing some of its atmosphere through an interesting mechanism. This could also hold clues to how Mars lost its atmosphere.
Futurism Unexplained oxygen fluctuations
Oxygen levels above Gale Crater appear to fluctuate seasonally and scientists don’t yet know why.
Meteor crater
50,000 years ago, a cosmologic eye-blink, the Earth gained 300,000 tons of nickel-iron mass in about ten seconds. Meteor Crater Natural Landmark is a cool stop along I-40 in northern Arizona.
Pair this with my Video clip 05: Luck
Look at it. Just look at it.
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has been snapping pics for 16 years. This recently released pole-to-pole image is astoundingly beautiful. Be sure to click through to the article, where there’s lots of discussion of the details.
Marsquake
Insight picks up the first quake on a celestial body other than Earth or the Moon.
Mercury is closest to all
If you give this a little thought, it makes perfect sense.
Gizmodo Insight – Sol 0
I’m looking at this image and thinking about all the scientists and engineers and technicians involved in the design and assembly of this equipment. How remarkable it must feel to look at this image of their creation sitting on Mars, ready to get to work. Kudos! I mean… wow.
NASA's InSight Mars Lander