Why does the trash matter? For more than 50 years, humans have been investigating the surface of Mars. Nations have dispatched 18 human-made items to Mars in 14 separate missions, according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Many of these missions are still underway, but humankind has left a large amount of trash on the planet's surface after decades of … [Read more...] about Mars is Littered with 15,694 Pounds of Human Waste From 50 Years Of Robotic Exploration
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The Mars Orbiter is About to Upgrade From Windows 98
Fingers crossed they skip Vista. And XP. And Windows 8. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft is due to get a software update that will remove the instrument's prior operating system, Windows 98. The software upgrade is anticipated to breathe fresh life into the … [Read more...] about The Mars Orbiter is About to Upgrade From Windows 98
We Can Reliably Generate Oxygen on Mars, Allowing Human Exploration to Continue
Tech on board perseverance can produce oxygen day and night and in different seasons. NASA recently declared that it has successfully created oxygen for the first time on Mars. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Project (MOXIE) has successfully produced oxygen seven times under various settings, including day and night and over two Martian seasons, according to … [Read more...] about We Can Reliably Generate Oxygen on Mars, Allowing Human Exploration to Continue
A New Study Discovers That This Is the First Plant We Should Grow on Mars
After we've overcome all of the obstacles to traveling to Mars, we'll have to find out how to make life there viable - and producing and nurturing food will be a big part of that. If you've watched Matt Damon's hardships in the film The Martian, you'll know that the red planet's terrain could theoretically grow food, a possibility supported by NASA research. However, it … [Read more...] about A New Study Discovers That This Is the First Plant We Should Grow on Mars
Perseverance Discovered Some Surprising Trash On Mars
A piece of its descent module was discovered far from the landing site, with no explanation as to how it got there. Humanity seems to have a habit of leaving rubbish behind wherever we go. Garbage may be found all the way from the Mariana Trench to the Himalayas. As NASA's Perseverance is demonstrating, other worlds are obviously not immune to this. The rover has captured a … [Read more...] about Perseverance Discovered Some Surprising Trash On Mars