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"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"
It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
defector.com · Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | DefectorMars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]
3 years since Ingenuity's first flight....
NASA has made this poster available for download
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/ingenuity-72-pathbreaking-flights-poster/
I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.
#space #astronaut #mars
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/capa-perdida-emilio-herrera-primer-traje-espacial-historia_1_11357855.html
Who did you expect?
Not Elon Musk!
She was the first woman on Mars. As she was landing, she ignored the original plan and headed straight for the Jezero crater, Mission Control would need to live with it. Once she stepped out she didn't hesitate. It took her a while but she finally reached the device. She opened her toolbox and got to work. After 20 minutes, she had replaced the rotor. She cleaned the dust with a cloth and said "fly baby, fly". It was 2054 and Ingenuity could fly once again.
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On BBC iPlayer. a fascinating documentary about preparing astronauts psychologically for long periods away from Earth.
Somewhere in Texas there's a place with an 18-minute communications delay.
Kelly Haston is one of four #NASA scientists spending 378 days living there, in a #Mars simulator.
Rick Edwards sent her some questions to find out what it’s like in there and how she’s coping with limited contact with the outside world.
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The first operational #optical #communication line arrived in 
1792, covering #France 
with a network of 556 stations stretching a total distance of 4,800 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_communication#Semaphore_line
Picture : #NASA's #Mars #Telecommunications #Orbiter * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA07499.jpg
* successor : Key features #SolarElectric #IonDrive engines, broadband #LaserCommunication (optic communication) between #Earth and #Mars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Mars_Orbiter
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I know everyone likes to joke about Uranus, but in this image the outer moon of Mars looks a bit like the, er, backside of a human. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01422-1 #Deimos #Mars
The UAE's Hope Mars orbiter got an extremely rare close look at the planet's enigmatic outer moon, Deimos. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01422-1 #Mars #Hope
Летняя Снеп Тавр That’s a whole Poland.
Just right there. Poland. That’s a whole heckin’ Poland. Think of how cold and alone they are.
#Mars #Poland #OlympusMons #space #shitpost
Now that I have a new home on solarsystem.social, here's a new #introduction!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in France. My research uses the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and geologic evolution. My favorite terrestrial body is the #Moon, but I also work with #Mercury, #Venus, and #Mars. Soon I will need to learn about #Psyche and the icy satellites of #Jupiter!
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Mar 17, 2023 - Day 76 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 82
Game: M.A.R.S.
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Nov 21, 2021
Library Date: Nov 21, 2021
Unplayed: 481d (1y3m24d)
Playtime: 21m
M.A.R.S. is a free-to-play third person cover-shooter. I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
This is a game with gameplay that feels like it came straight from the early 2010's... which is a problem for a game that was released in 2021.
A cover shooter in a world where Gears of War, The Division, and Outriders exist, has to bring something to the table in terms of gameplay that other cover shooters don't offer.
Technically, they've done that. Poorly animated characters, sluggish movement, and utterly woeful voice acting, is definitely something I haven't seen in the other cover shooters I've played, particularly all at the same time.
Some games are so bad they're entertaining; The developers of M.A.R.S. seem to have taken one look at the mountain of mediocrity, and decided to set up base camp about three feet up.
M.A.R.S. Not even once. It's:
1: Nope
Cloudy and Dusty Mars - Kasei Valles and Valles Marineris
I love the clouds and dusty feature crossing the terminator on the northern region...
Full size and tags: https://flic.kr/p/2oj7dA4
Processed from the latest data release of @HopeMarsMission
https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/
Orbit: 247
Timetag 2022-08-01
Spacecraft altitude: 24576 km
Filters: f635+f546+f437
#Mars #Space #HopeProbe #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck
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Update: Our civilization on #Mars is evolving, according to Bing. https://mastodon.social/@jhpot/109859745864083061
MastodonJustin Pot (@jhpot@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image
incredible stuff here Bing
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And the South Pole:
Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.
So, here are 4 Mercator and 1 polar maps showing cities, places and plot info, created while I was reading the novels. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/USGS-PlanetMars-TopographicalMap.png
Suggestions and corrections (with references) are welcome!
Another epic shot for my series of Phobos over Mars
Full size image 40MP: https://flic.kr/p/2ogpjSY
ESA Mars Express
Colourised image created using data processed from https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 22608
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2021-11-22 22:51
Product IDs:
HM608_0000_BL3
HM608_0000_ND3
#Phobos #Mars #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck