Morning on Mars
6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter.
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Reblogged from expositionfairy March 28th, 2012 at 3:57 pm 9,451 notes #mars #sunrise
Reblogged from visual.ly January 26th, 2012 at 5:42 pm 58 notes #MSL #Curiosity #Mars #space #science #infographicMars Science Laboratory and the Curiosity Rover
NASA’s new roving vehicle will be able to search for organic substances on Mars and establish if there are signs of Mar’s ability to sustain life. This infographic takes a look at NASA’s new curiosity rover to see how it functions and what some of its key features are.
Reblogged from jpl.nasa.gov October 10th, 2011 at 10:26 pm 53 notes #Mars #Opportunity #space #videosVideo documents three-year trek on Mars by NASA rover
While NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on each Martian day that included a drive. A new video compiles these 309 images, providing an historic record of the three-year trek that totaled about 21 kilometers across a Martian plain pocked with smaller craters.
The rover team also produced a sound track for the video, using each drive day’s data from Opportunity’s accelerometers. The low-frequency data has been sped up 1,000 times to yield audible frequencies. The sound represents the vibrations of the rover while moving on the surface of Mars. When the sound is louder, the rover was moving on bedrock. When the sound is softer, the rover was moving on sand.
July 26th, 2010 at 6:06 pm Notes #marsI ran into this image over on the Wikipedia entry for Terraforming of Mars. This is an artistic conceptualization of what Mars might look like over time if we were to attempt terraformation of it’s surface. Pretty darn cool.
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Reblogged from unknownskywalker July 24th, 2010 at 10:12 pm 56 notes #mars #rover #space #exploration #videoFirst Test Drive for Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’
This video shows the first test drive of the next Mars Rover, Curiosity, in a clean room at NASA´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on July 23, 2010.
Source: Read the full story at NASA JPL
Reblogged from crookedindifference July 14th, 2010 at 4:33 pm 153 notes #Mars #spaceSee Mars Better Than An Astronaut With Microsoft’s Interactive Maps
In order to create the most interactive 3D-map of Mars ever, NASA had to process 13,000 gigapixel HiRISE images for three years. Now that they’ve finished, the map will let people see Mars better than most NASA scientists ever have.
NASA teamed up with Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope to deliver the highest resolution images of Mars ever. In fact, the pictures are so detailed that you can see the tracks left by various Mars Rovers.
Reblogged from unknownskywalker July 7th, 2010 at 5:05 pm 20 notes #mars #space #space exploration #mars roverA Place in History
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover’s surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day of its mission (April 22, 2010).
Opportunity launched on July 7, 2003, on a mission slated to last 90 days, landing on Mars in January 2004. The rover has exceeded its mission parameters by more than 2,200 days as its exploration of the Red Planet continues.
Opportunity took some of the component images for this mosaic on Sol 2220, after the drive, and the rest on Sol 2221. Wind-formed ripples of dark sand make up much of the terrain surrounding this position. Patches of outcrop are visible to the south. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 1 meter.
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Symphony of Science - The Case for Mars! (ft. Zubrin, Sagan, Cox & Boston) (via melodysheep)
“The Case for Mars” is the sixth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features Robert Zubrin, Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston. Samples come from the documentary “The Mars Underground”, Cosmos, and Wonders of the Solar System. The video is intended to pique curiosity about the planet Mars and to promote human exploration of it.
Reblogged from youtube.com June 3rd, 2010 at 2:48 pm 3 notes #symphony of science #space #mars #science #Brian Cox #Carl Sagan
