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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars 'copter Ingenuity still flying high, spots hazards for the Perseverance rover

Phil Plait

Artwork depicting the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars with the Ingenuity helicopter deployed. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Drying up a claim — maybe — of liquid water under the south pole of Mars

Phil Plait

The southern polar ice cap of Mars (using infrared, green, and blue light), which is mostly water ice with a thin layer of carbon dioxide ice on top, taken by Mars Express. Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Meet SpaceBok, the radical new rover built to jump around the Moon and Mars

Jeff Spry

ESA SpaceBok Robot

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Perseverance is now ready to actively begin looking for evidence of life on Mars

Phil Plait

Jun 18, 2021

Artwork depicting the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars with the Ingenuity helicopter deployed. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Perseverance

NASA's Mars rover shares new 2.4 billion-pixel, 360-degree panoramic image from Jezero

Jeff Spry

Jun 12, 2021

Tag: Perseverance

Tag: Interviews

Humans could someday be living underground on Mars, which is the best SPF of all

Elizabeth Rayne

May 28, 2021

Tag: Interviews

Does that taste like aliens? Salt on Mars could determine if life ever existed there

Elizabeth Rayne

May 25, 2021

Curiosity on Mars

Tag: Mars InSight

Are Martian moons Phobos and Deimos chunks of a larger, older satellite?

Jeff Spry

May 22, 2021

Tag: Mars InSight

China makes history as second nation to ever land a rover on Mars surface

Josh Weiss

May 15, 2021

NASA's Perseverance rover

Tag: Bad Astronomy

What created this enormous spiral in the Martian north pole? Wind. And Time.

Phil Plait

May 13, 2021

An oblique view of the Martian north polar cap using images from Mars Express combined with laser altimeter data to artificially change the perspective. The spiral trough pattern is obvious. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, NASA MGS MOLA Science Team

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Have humans already contaminated Mars with Earth-born microbes?

Jeff Spry

May 12, 2021

Tag: Bad Astronomy

More evidence that Mars is volcanically active right now. Today.

Phil Plait

May 10, 2021

Cerberus Fossae is a set of largely parallel cracks in the surface of Mars near the Equator. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Elon Musk brings SpaceX to SNL for 'The Martian' parody during first-ever hosting gig

Josh Weiss

May 9, 2021

Tag: saturday night live

Tag: Bad Astronomy

NASA extends the Mars helicopter mission, testing it for actual mission ops

Phil Plait

May 3, 2021

The Perseverance rover took this image of the helicopter Ingenuity (arrowed) as it flew south 133 meters away and returned on its fourth flight, which took place Friday morning, April 30, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

In a Martian oxymoron, icy clouds could have kept the Red Planet warm enough for life to thrive

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 29, 2021

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