Musk Says He Wants To Send Rocket To Mars Next Year, With Human Missions As Soon As 2029
Musk—who has a history of setting unrealized goals for his companies—says he wants to send humans to Mars by 2029, though he ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Discovers Mysterious Striped Rock on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...
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Mars may have a solid inner core just like Earth
Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...
Weighing in on a Mars water debate: Analysis challenges previous findings
More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...
Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward
The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...
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Turning Up the Heat on Mars
Scientists have considered placing Mylar disks, with a diameter of 155 miles and a weight of 200,000 tons, to reflect sunlight onto Mars and heat the surface. The idea is that over many years ...
Hidden Beneath Mars: Water Reservoirs and Fiery Magmas Rewrite Its History
Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...
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PhD student develops spinning heat shield for future spacecraft
A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars. Heat shields ...