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Mars One lander: candidate selection milestone
Shown here is an artist’s drawing for the Nasa Phoenix robot lander probe. Mars One is financing a scout probe based on this design to make an initial robotic survey trip, scheduled for 2018. Mars One was in the news today. Mars One achieved a major candidate selection milestone, narrowing down the candidates for their privately-funded one-way trip to Red Planet to 50 men and 50 women. We’re continuing our recent theme of photo posts on Martian colonization. THis theme is coincidentally just in time for this news. A one-way trip to a permanent space colony, with no possibility of return if something goes wrong, will greatly reduce the weight and complexity of the spacecraft. Mars One hopes it will shaves decades off the preparation time, albeit not without criticism for greatly increasing the risks to the explorers by eliminating the safety-net of a round trip. (Mars is still risky business, as becomes clear from the number of probes that have been lost over the years.)… Read the restMars: 3D printing raw material locations?
This 2001 view of mars seen by the Nasa Hubble space telescope might provide some clues as to locations where the raw materials for 3D printing might come from. Continuing on our red planet theme from the last few days, this is a 2001 photo of Mars from the Hubble space telescope.Mars has about 0.5 the diameter of Earth, or a quarter of the surface area. (AKA available real estate for you speculators. 🙂 ) Mars, the God of War, is indeed mostly made of iron as the ancient alchemists thought, or specifically iron(II) oxide, aka rust. (Mars was thought to be the God of War because of its blood color. Iron, of course, was the metal of weapons and war, and rust also resembled blood.) Critically, for expeditions, the poles contain significant amounts of water. The southern white polar ice cap, if melted, would cover the surface 11m in water.… Read the restNasa Mars Pathfinder mission examining rock (Photo)
Nasa Mars pathfinder missing examining a (now famous) rock on the Red Planet. (We’re continuing our Mars space exploration theme from the past few posts.) In this photo, the Sojourner rover of the Nasa Mars Pathfinder mission is using its X-ray spectrometer to measure Yogi Rock. Yogi Rock is now a famous place on Mars. It’s even got a Wikipedia entry. We know everyone remembers their Martian geography. We just need to say the name of the place on Mars and everyone and their real estate agent knows exactly where that is. Heck, it’s probably got a postal code already. Well, actually, it’s mostly famous due to that reality TV and webcam show called the Nasa Mars Pathfinder mission. What reality TV can do to places, huh? We hear the real estate there’s still plenty cheap, though, despite the fame. A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed.… Read the restLife on Mars: Artist concept drawing
Life on Mars:Â Continuing our recent Mars theme, this is a 2005 Nasa futuristic artist concept drawing of how life on the red planet might look. It is hoped within a few decades this science fiction scene will become science fact, and life on Mars will become a reality. (Why? There are concerns the colony is needed to mitigate against a growing list of existential threats to civilization. Not the least of these is mineral and rare earths depletion, which new technologies like the Martian colony might address. We’ve previously talked about existential threats to humanity as well as concerns about peak rare earths in our previous posts on the Singularity.) A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restRecent Posts
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