Mars

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InSight is shook, because it felt three huge Marsquakes trembling underneath it

Elizabeth Rayne

NASA’s InSight lander

Tag: Life on Mars

Size matters, which might be why Mars has no life

Elizabeth Rayne

Liz Mars Craters

Tag: Life on Mars

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Forget Yellowstone: Thousands of immense supervolcano eruptions buried much of ancient Mars

Phil Plait

Sep 20, 2021

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Perseverance

Perseverance’s first rock samples are a time machine to billions of years ago

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 15, 2021

Liz Perseverance Rover Rock Samples

Tag: Perseverance

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Want to go to Mars? Better leave when the Sun is active to minimize galactic radiation poisoning

Phil Plait

Sep 14, 2021

An enormous solar filament, hundreds of thousands of kilometers across, erupted from the Sun in August 2012. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: astronauts

Mars has built-in radiation shelters if humans ever want to go there

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 11, 2021

Liz Curiosity at 'Glen Etive'

Tag: astronauts

Cloudy with a chance of dust storms: Mars weather forecasts might change astronauts’ plans

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 2, 2021

Liz Mars Swirls

Anyone looking for life on Mars should try probing its moons

Elizabeth Rayne

Aug 19, 2021

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Wanna live on Mars? NASA's taking applications for a year-long Red Planet simulation

Matthew Jackson

Aug 11, 2021

Mars pathfinder full

Micro-radar could help find subsurface lunar lava tubes for astronauts to hang out in

Elizabeth Rayne

Jul 30, 2021

Liz MariusHills_LO2LRO_1080

Tag: InSight Mission

Now we know what the guts of Mars look like

Elizabeth Rayne

Jul 28, 2021

Liz Mars Liquid Iron Core

Tag: InSight Mission

Tag: Curiosity Rover

Something erased evidence of life on Mars, if there was life on Mars

Elizabeth Rayne

Jul 22, 2021

Liz Curiosity at 'Glen Etive'

Tag: Curiosity Rover

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Phil Plait

Jul 13, 2021

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

Jul 6, 2021

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

Jun 25, 2021

ESA SpaceBok Robot

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