On May 5, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch NASA’s InSight mission to Mars from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Insight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will study the deep interior of Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Astronomical Society of the Pacific sponsors the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, include the recent talk by Dr. Ashwin Vasavada (Project Scientist for the Curiosity Mission to Mars at JPL) on the exploration of Mars. The title of the talk was “When Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A short report from NASA JPL with the latest news from Mars: And this longer video shows a talk by Troy Hudson of JPL about NASA’s Mars InSight Mission, which is scheduled to launch in May of this year and land […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mars rover Opportunity landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 25, 2004. Nearly 5000 Martian days later, the robust little robot continues to explore and make discoveries. Here are two items from NASA JPL about Opportunity: ** 5,000 Days on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An overview of technologies and designs for Building on Mars: The Construction Industry Space Race: ==== This March in Dublin, Niamh Shaw, “one of Ireland’s leading science communicators”, will present her theater work about a Mars base: Diary of a Martian Beekeeper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
German physicist and engineer Christiane Heinicke describes her one year stay with five other people in the HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) habitat by the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii (see previous posts here about HI-SEAS): My Year on “Mars” – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A selection of space videos of interest: ** A preview of NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover mission: ** Global weather October 2017 – Eumetsat A movie of weather across the globe during October of 2017. Our series of monthly weather videos shows a combination […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: An Apollo tribute + Fidget spinners in micro-g + Igniting rockets + Virtually roving Mars
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Some videos of interest: ** Via The Chiles Files comes this beautifully made tribute by Christian Stangl to the Apollo program combining thousands of photos with animations along with a nice soundtrack: ** Fun with fidget spinners in weightlessness on the ISS: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest TMRO.tv live program is now available in the archive: LUNARES Moon and Mars simulated living – Orbit 10.38 – TMRO We talk with the crew running the ICAres-1 mission aboard the LUNARES Mobile Research Station. We will cover what […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space historian and journalist Bob Zimmerman has released a science fiction book called Pioneer, which he actually wrote in 1982 but it portrays a future of space settlement very relevant to what is happening in the space world today: Pioneer | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elon Musk gave a talk today at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017) in Adelaide, Australia in which he described the design of a new SpaceX rocket system, informally called the BFR (e.g. “Big Freaking Rocket”). The company will soon start building the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos of a dozen or so presentations at last week’s Mars Society conference are now available in the The Mars Society YouTube channel. (There are also videos with the complete daily live streams from the conference as in the earlier post.) Here […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 20th Annual International Mars Society Conference is underway at the University of California, Irvine. Here is a live webcast: Conference info: Speakers Schedule (pdf)
Most everyday there are posts on HiRISE (NASA) (@HiRISE) | Twitter showing images (some in 3D) and videos made with the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. For example, check out these marvelous landscapes: HiRISE | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL highlights the five year anniversary of the Curiosity Rover‘s arrival on Mars with a set of videos about the mission so far: Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown! NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hubble Space Telescope makes a cool time-lapse video of the Martian moon Phobos circling the Red Planet: NASA’s Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Mars near opposition in May, 2016, a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman has posted one of his periodic updates on the explorations of the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers on Mars: Mars rover update: July 12, 2017 | Behind The Black. In the five years since Curiosity landed in Gale Crater, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A world premier performance of the Red Planet anthem “Rise to Mars!” From the caption: Rise to Mars! Men and women Dare to dream! Dare to strive! Build a home for our children Make this desert come alive! There are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA is marking 20 years of missions to Mars: Why No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at Mars | NASA. Here is a video about the Pathfinder lander/Sojourner rover mission of 1997: On July 4, 1997, NASA’s Mars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman has posted an interesting update on what’s been happening recently with the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers on Mars: Mars rover update: June 23, 2017 | Behind The Black. Since my my May 15th update, the Opportunity science team has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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