Blasted off Mars and still alive
A super-tough microbe survived Mars-level impact forces, hinting that life might leap from planet to planet.

#microbes #life #Mars #panspermia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260303082606.htm

🔴 Depuis environ six mois, le rover #Curiosity explore une région pleine de formations géologiques appelées "boxwork", des crêtes basses mesurant environ 1 à 2 mètres de haut avec des creux sablonneux entre les deux. Les formations suggèrent que d'anciennes eaux souterraines se sont écoulées sur cette partie de la planète #Mars plus tard que prévu par les scientifiques.
Les formations en forme de boîte ressemblent à toiles d'araignées géantes vu de l'espace.

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Le rover martien Curiosity de la NASA a capturé ce panorama de formations en forme de boîte, les crêtes basses vues ici avec des creux entre elles, à l'aide de sa Mastcam le 26 septembre 2025. 📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Les scientifiques pensent que les anciennes eaux souterraines formaient ce motif en forme de toile de crêtes, appelé boxwork, qui ont été capturées par Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter de la NASA le 10 décembre 2006. 📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Université de l'Arizona

#PPOD: In this HiRISE image of #Mars, many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called "barchan dunes." They are formed by the continuous action of the wind, blowing in the same direction, giving this particular shape.

The orientation of these dunes tells us that the prevailing wind blows from the right to the left (east to west). The wind continuously moves sand grains up the longer dune slope towards the top.

#space #science #planetaryscience

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Orbiter image taken of the surface of Mars, showing several large Barchan dunes (nearly pointed arches) with the narrow ends to the right. The ground around the dunes is cracked and dry and seen in shades of tan and pale blue.

🔴🎂 Le 18 février 2021, le rover #Perseverance se posait sur #Mars dans le cratère Jezero.
Depuis il a parcouru un peu plus de 39 km à ce jour et a rempli 30 des 38 tubes d'échantillons de roches martiennes.

📷 NASA/JPL

Mes articles sur l'atterrissage : https://reves-d-espace.com/perseverance-bien-pose-sur-mars et /https://reves-d-espace.com/atterrissage-de-perseverance-comme-si-vous-y-etiez/

I have better plans for Mars than that Cunt, not that he's ever going into Space at all.....he's a fucking grifter and a coward.....oh, and a nonce.

(btw, the special boy genius has discovered the Moon is closer, all marvel at his galaxy brain everyone, ooooo..../s)

#ElonMusk #Musk #Mars #Space #Moon

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Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth?

This:

In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.

and this:

In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronewsde/nachrichten-kb4o7397z/-/a-fAUZ86bfQMCvrP3lJ7wfZQ%3Aa%3A89341092-%2F0

Schau mal, @silberspur 👇

Nachdem Musk schon X & Tesla sowie seinen Ruf mit Epstein - Mails sogar ggü. den MAGA - Trump - Trollen geschreddert hat, schwenkt er nun vom Mars zum Mond. Du hattest ja bereits 2024 das Scheitern seiner Terraforming - Transhumanismus thematisiert: #Musk #X #Tesla #Epstein #Trump #Mond #Mars #Terraforming #SpaceX https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/gastblog-peter-gutsche-von-wuestenplaneten-terraforming-und-oekologie-als-wissenschaft-von-der-mitwelt-zukunftsvisionen-fuer-eine-lebenswerte-erde/

@benlockwood

Even assuming #spacex does set up a successful #Mars colony...

... Who wants to live in a whites only, pedo, Nazi authoritarian prison with no escape?

Maybe it's a clever plot to give earthlings a common enemy?

I mean, Space Nazis run by evil #AI (#grok) is a perfect antagonist!

🔴La sonde Mars Express de l'ESA nous emmène en voyage à travers les hautes terres du sud de #Mars, notamment lors d'un vol autour du cratère Flaugergues, un bassin d'environ 240 km de diamètre.

En vidéo : https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/02/Fly_around_Flaugergues_Crater_on_Mars

Mars rover Perseverance can now be driven by AI. In unrelated news, scientists are baffled on how a Mars rover ended up stuck on a canyon on Europa

https://youtu.be/wubO9j1keNA?si=qDW-ZY6xUveaHYAc

#stem #Science #space #interesting #Mars

Mars v. Mars

📷 :https://esahubble.org/images/heic2505b/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(mythology)#/media/File:0_Statue_de_Mars_(Pyrrhus)_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_MC0058_(2).JPG

#astronomy #astrophotography #Space #Hubble #science #ESA #NASA #Mythology #RomanMythology #Ares #Mars

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Image description from source in toot: Two views of planet Mars on a black background of space observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. At left, text: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. At right, text: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. In both images, its atmosphere is clear and the surface appears detailed. Most of the planet is shades of orange. At left, the brightest orange area appears in the left half. At right, the brightest orange area is centered and takes on the rough shape of a sleeping mask. In both views, darker surface features are noticeable on the lower half of the planet. These have a mix of orange, blue, and gray hues. At the top and bottom, white regions mark the planet’s polar caps. The entire limb of the planet, its visible edge, has a blue hue. The blue doesn’t form an even circle at the edges, and appears thinner toward the left and right, and thicker in some areas.]

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A full-length marble statue of a bearded male figure (Mars/Ares) wearing ancient Roman military armor and a short tunic. He stands upright with his right arm raised holding a cylindrical object and his left arm resting near a round shield at his side. A decorative breastplate shows carved figures and symbols, and a draped cloak hangs over one shoulder and down the body. He wears strapped sandals and an elaborate helmet with a tall crest. The statue is shown against a solid black background.

"Don't run! We are your friends!"

All shot using real lighting, smoke, figures and miniature sets. I illustrated the glow and some particles to the Martians Ray gun the rest is all in camera.

#marsattacks #miniatures #scifi #martians #aliens #photography #movies #visualart #creativephotography #toyphotography #miniaturephotography #practicaleffects #photographicartwork #actionfigurephotography #cinema #timburton #mars

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Martian blasts a human with its ray gun in the middle of the street leaving only behind a skeleton

Heute kommt auf Tele 5 ein Film, wo irgendwelche Leute versuchen, das Leben auf dem #Mars zu retten, aber selbst die #Filmkritik hat die angewendete Methode wohl nicht verstanden.

Also vermutlich eine Lösung ohne #Naturgesetze. Ihr könnt ja mal reinschauen und versuchen, es zu verstehen.

Mi., 28. Jan
20:15-22:00
Tele 5
Martian Land

An ocean the size of the Arctic once covered half of Mars, new images hint

Mars may have been a

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/an-ocean-the-size-of-the-arctic-once-covered-half-of-mars-new-images-hint#astronomy #mars #planets #space

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Images of Mars's surface pieced together. The canyon is a thin lighter colored line running from top to bottom in the center of the images.

☀️ Rain transforms across our solar system: methane falls on Titan, diamonds may descend through Neptune, and Saturn receives water from its rings. Each world weeps in its own way, from Venus where acid vanishes mid-flight to Mars where ancient rivers remember water's touch.

✍️ Journey through cosmic precipitation:
https://TPC8.short.gy/nvgKGw2y

✨ Every world tells its story through what falls from its sky.

#Astronomy #Precipitation #SolarSystem #Titan #Neptune #Cosmos #Mars #Venus #SpaceWeather #TPC8

Enhancing #Parachutes by Instrumenting the #Canopy (#EPIC) is a #NASA project led by the Armstrong Flight Research Center to improve the safety and reliability of #Supersonic parachutes used for planetary missions, particularly to #Mars.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/kbits/6969fd72261c3aa9ec6367c0

@rebtoor @Em0nM4stodon @BrahmaBelarusian @TheNovemberMan

🌛🛰🌎🚀🪨🌞🛸

#SpaceNews #NASA #Farming #Technology #PublicPolicy #Mars

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-launches-mars-table-challenge-143010653.html

#TheSpaceBetweenUs was beautiful. #AsaButterfield #GaryOldman #Space #Mars

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Asa Butterfield in a space suit without helmet. Fog or smoke behind him. He is smiling looking down.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Congress backs Trump administration’s efforts to kill project that would ferry martian rocks to Earth

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead

#Mars #MSR #MarsSample #space #science #news

Time flies when your ass is on Mars

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074458.htm?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #Science #space #physics #time #interesting #Mars

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN probe on Dec. 6 and has been scrambling to make contact with the spacecraft in orbit around Mars ever since. NBC News has more:

https://flip.it/WJbcoG

#Science #NASA #Space #Mars #SpaceExploration

See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA’s groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark reg...

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/see-the-100-000th-photo-of-mars-taken-by-nasas-groundbreaking-red-planet-orbiter#astronomy #mars #planets #space

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The full view of Syrtis Major

🔴Après près de 5 ans sur #Mars, le rover #Perseverance a parcouru près de 40 km.
Les ingénieurs du JPL ont estimé qu'il pourrait fonctionner jusqu'en 2031 et que que les actionneurs rotatifs des roues peuvent fonctionner pendant au moins 60 km de plus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNAaYlKVDtk

Enhanced Autonomous Navigation on the Perseverance Mars Rover

We knew about #AutoNav, but this is an in-depth description of an enhancement to it that has helped #Perseverance cover 90% of its drives autonomously.

This paper also shows why one cannot but love those people at #NASA. Using #Linux is just another reason 😀

NOTE: #AI is mentioned exactly zero times in the paper.

#PDF: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx8/10495159/10576056/11265757.pdf?tp=&arnumber=11265757&isnumber=10576056&ref=aHR0cHM6Ly9pZWVleHBsb3JlLmllZWUub3JnL2RvY3VtZW50LzExMjY1NzU3

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Mars #OpenSource

#Information Overload is #Killing Us : Medium

#Einstein was right: #Time ticks faster on #Mars, posing new challenges for #Future #Missions : Live Sci

#Snow #Droughts in the #Himalayas could have a #Disastrous cascading effect in #Downstream #River basins : Misc

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Curiosity on a sunset walk... on #Mars (as one does..)

🎥 : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26673-curiosity-works-its-robotic-arm-during-sunset/

#astroDon #Astronomy #Mars #space #JPL #Science #Curiosity

Wir waren in Hamburg! Gemeinsam mit Euch haben wir in der Elbphilharmonie diesen kurzen Comic-Strip für Elon & Jeff auf dem Mars erfunden. Dreimal dürft ihr raten, welche Begriffe sich das Publikum gewünscht hat.
#Hamburg #elbphilharmonie #elonmusk #jeffbezos #mars #marcuwekling

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Comic Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos spielen Golf auf dem Mars. Im Hintergrund ist die Elbphilharmonie zu sehen. Drüber steht „ELON & JEFF on Mars“ und „Das haben wir mit Euch in Hamburg gezeichnet:“

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4 Bilder. 1. Bild: Elon isst Banane, denkt „ICH BIN SO FROH, DASS ICH BANANEN MIT ZUM MARS GEBRACHT HABE“ 2. Bild Astronaut (Jeff oder Elon) läuft neben Elefant, denkt „ICH BIN SO FROH, DASS ICH DEN ELEFANTEN MIT ZUM MARS GEBRACHT HABE“ 3. Bild Zwei Astronauten (Elon & Jeff) neben Titanic, denken beide „ICH BIN SO FROH“ „DAS WIR DIE TITANIC AUF DEN MARS GEBRACHT HABEN“ 4. Bild Elon und Jeff schauen sich an und sagen gleichzeitig: „ABER DASS DU HIER BIST, IST IRGENDWIE UNNÖTIG!“

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Das Comicbuch „ELON & JEFF ON MARS“ mit Mars-Hintergrund

Einstein was right: Time ticks faster on Mars, posing new challenges for future missions

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posi...

https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/einstein-was-right-time-ticks-faster-on-mars-posing-new-challenges-for-future-missions#astronomy #mars #planets #space

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A gravity map of Mars showing regions of greater gravity in red

"Tesco and Mars post successes with sustainable farming schemes"

#Mars #Tesco #Farming #Food

https://www.edie.net/tesco-and-mars-post-successes-with-sustainable-farming-schemes/

#NASA just lost contact with #MAVEN #Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one
Telemetry showed #spacecraft was working normally before passing behind Mars, but spacecraft did not resume communications after emerging from behind the planet.
MAVEN is newest of NASA’s 3 operational Mars orbiters. But NASA’s two other Mars orbiters have been in space for more than 20 years. The older of the two, named #MarsOdyssey, has been at Mars since 2001 and will soon run out of fuel
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-just-lost-contact-with-a-mars-orbiter-and-will-soon-lose-another-one/

Space News

NASA confirm loss of contact with the Maven Mars orbiter.

"NASA has officially lost contact with a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2014.

"The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re-emerged from behind Mars, however, NASA ground control was unable to re-establish a connection."
Read full story:

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven

This is sad news because I joined a NASA Social event in 2013 to see Maven launch from the Cape.

#nasa
#maven
#mars
#g7izu

🌵🤖 Researchers at Swiss university #EPFL discovered that tumbleweeds have asymmetrical porosity that makes them efficient #wind-powered travelers, inspiring the HERMES #robot that uses 48% less #energy than traditional #robots.

The tumbleweed-inspired #design includes a built-in quadcopter for windless conditions and could eventually explore disaster zones or even #Mars.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/tumbleweed-robot-hermes/

#robotics #biomimicry #engineering #tech #technology #innovation #nature #science

A mosaic captured by Perseverance three days ago with her Mastcam Zoom camera, somewhere on the edge of the rim of Jezero Crater

🔍 https://zoomhub.net/5r5nw

#Mars Dec. 5, 2025 - Sol 1704
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Perseverance #rover #Sol1704 #Northeen #PerseveranceRover #space #science #Astrodon #Mastcam #mosaic #photography

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A mosaic of ochre toned images capturing a Martian landscape.

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A zoom on the first image capturing a landscape of dunes and hills.

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A zoom on the first image capturing rocks and sands.

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A zoom on the first image capturing a landscape of dunes.

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of #Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small #planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and heavy rainfall comparable to #tropical climates on #Earth
#PlanetaryScience #EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/ps12012502.html

Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/26/mars-lightning-nasa-perseverance-rover/
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Des scientifiques capturent des bruits de craquements de ce qu’ils croient être des éclairs sur Mars

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/un-vrai-moment-eureka-des-chercheurs-francais-ont-detecte-des-eclairs-sur-mars-20251126

#Mars #Space #Espace

Now that I have a better idea of what I'm doing and the need for using tags, a re-#introduction.

I'm a #planetary and #environmental #geologist and currently a #postdoc at NAU.

My #research includes performing #fieldwork using #arctic, #subarctic, and #alpine #periglacial analogs to better understand the history of #ice on #Mars.

I'm also into #photography and the #weather.

I'm interested in re-connecting with folks in the #geoscience and #astronomy communities making the #TwitterMigration

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Photo of Paul wearing an orange jacket and yellow safety vest, holding a small drone and standing in front of a glacier in Iceland.

(23 Nov) Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn’t from our neighboring world and likely crashed on Mars instead.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/m593l

#astronomy #mars #planets #space

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Up-close photo of an irregularly-shaped rock on Mars

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, giving the planet a denser atmosphere and making it habitable. Recent research suggests the habitability lasted for eons, much longer than previously believed. @ScienceAlert reports:

https://flip.it/sAvbA2

#Science #Space #Mars #SolarSystem #Planets

🌌 🚀 🪐 Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded

#NASA #Space #Mars

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-mars-sample-return-mission-in-jeopardy-as-u-s-considers-abandoning/

@NASA Discovered a Rock on #Mars 🔴 That Doesn't Belong There. Via @sciencealert #RedPlanet #Martian #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy #NASA 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars...

(13 Nov) 2 million black ’streaks’ on Mars finally have an explanation, solving 50-year mystery

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet’s dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/991wv
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/ezc0y

#astronomy #mars #planets #space

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A satellite photo showing a hundreds of parallel slope streaks on the slopes of Apollinaris Mons

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does.

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The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with native life. Compared to the very most hospitable place on Mars it is an unimaginably fertile Eden. Here is a list of the plant-life that grows there: Nothing. Here is a list of all the animals that reproduce there: None.

Life on earth writ large, the grand network of life, is a greater and more dynamic terraforming engine than any person could ever conceive. It has been operating ceaselessly for several billions of years. It has not yet terraformed the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest. On what type of timeframe were you imagining that the shoebox of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen Airless Radioactive Desert Hell into a place where people could grow wheat?

#Eugenics #Longtermism #EffectiveAltruism #Mars #MarsColony

#Mars #hellhole #Earth #sustainability