December 12, 2018
Cheryl
NEWS, OPINION
3-D printed habitat, Andy Weir, cosmic radiation, cosmos, Curiosity Rover, Elon Musk, extra-planetary, HiRISE, life on Mars, magnetosphere, Mars, Mars disaster, Mars InSight Probe, Mars Mission, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars settlement, multi-planetary, NASA, National Geographic, Opportunity Rover, radiation, rockets, Sci-Fi, solar flare, Space adventure, space exploration, space flight, Space-X, survive in space, survive on Mars, terraforming Mars, The Martian, The Red Planet, We Are Mars
Whether you’re a science nerd like me, or you are someone else getting on with life, you’ll probably know Mars has been in the news a lot in 2018. The momentum has been gathering for some time, but an announcement in late 2017, by Elon Musk, caused a stir that threw a spotlight on our
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September 5, 2018
Cheryl
NEWS
atmosphere, Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Gale Crater, Mars, Mars atmosphere, Mars disaster, Mars dust storm, Mars exploration, Mars sol, NASA, NASA Rovers, Opportunity, Opportunity Rover, Oppy, Save Oppy, Science, sol, sols, space exploration, space science, Spirit Rover, tau, Viking probe
Maybe you’ve heard, but if not, there was recently a planet-wide dust storm all over Mars. This is not a very unusual phenomenon – large-scale storms blow across Mars fairly regularly. Their existence was first recorded by the Viking probes that landed on Mars in the 1970’s. What made this storm so unusual was its
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