Here’s how NASA’s MESSENGER mission – which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015 – let scientists finally solve one of Mercury’s biggest mysteries, about whether its innermost core is liquid or solid. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mystery-solved-mercury-solid-inner-core-messenger…
Tag: Mars
NASA winner demos red berries on the red planet
A team from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering that designed a greenhouse for Mars was announced the winner of the 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge Wednesday at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nasa-winner-demos-red-berries.html…
Listen to 1st-ever recorded marsquake
On April 6, NASA’s Mars InSight lander captured the 1st-ever audio of a likely “marsquake.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/insight-lander-marsquake-audio…
How would you survive on Mars?
The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats Institute is working to ensure that the first long-term settlement on other planetary bodies are safe from hazards such as a meteoroid colliding with the moon or violent sandstorms on Mars. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-survive-mars.html…
NASA’s Mars InSight lander may have the first recording of a Marsquake
NASA’s InSight mission appears to have detected a Marsquake for the first time. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-mars-insight-lander-first-recording-marsquake4…
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes
Measuring seismic activity on Mars could help us figure out how much water the planet has, and now NASA’s InSight lander has felt marsquakes for the first time Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200552-nasas-insight-lander-on-mars-has-felt-its-first-marsquakes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
‘Marsquake’: first tremor detected on Red Planet
Scientists said Tuesday they might have detected the first known seismic tremor on Mars in a discovery that could shed light on the ancient origins of Earth’s neighbour. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-marsquake-tremor-red-planet.html…
U.S. Presidential Candidate Addresses Questions About Extraterrestrial Invasion
If you’re worried about invasions from outer space (or from inside the Earth or from another dimension), you may want to listen to what U.S. presidential candidate Seth Moulton (another one?) has to say about how he would handle the situation if he was sitting in the Oval Office. Will this become one of the… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/u-s-presidential-candidate-addresses-questions-about-extraterrestrial-invasion/…
Mars Methane Mystery Deepens
The methane mystery on Mars just got stranger. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Things are stacking up for NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft
For the past few months, the clean room floor in High Bay 1 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been covered in parts, components and test equipment for the Mars 2020 spacecraft, scheduled for launch toward the Red Planet in July of 2020. But over the past few weeks, some of these components—the spacecraft-rocket-laden landing system and even…