Tag archive: Mars

We've all tried the packets of freeze-dried “astronaut food” at one point or another, so it's not surprising to find out that those packets — and even the more modern types of space food — probably won't be enough to keep space travelers sated and healthy on a multi-year journey. With NASA planning a mission to Mars that could take five years or more to arrive at the Red Planet, the question facing researchers now… Read More

It took Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity three years to get there, but it recently made it to the edge of Endeavor Crater, a 14-mile wide crater that has shown evidence of holding life-sustaining water in the past. The 13-mile journey was a painstaking process for the rover, which first landed on the Red Planet back in 2004 and has been gathering data about the makeup of the land and its topography in the time since its arrival. The rover,… Read More

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that water is flowing just below the surface of Mars, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The discovery was made after images taken by a NASA probe revealed brown streaks (pictured above) on the Red Planet's surface, which could have been caused by moving salt water. While the study is not conclusive, scientists say the finding corroborates evidence found by other probes.… Read More

Mars has fascinated humanity since pre-historic times, but the notion of little green men and Martian Society really got its start in the 19th century when Italian astronomer Giovani Schiaparelli noted “canali” on the visible surface of Mars. American Percival Lowell took the idea much further from 1885 to 1908 with a series of three books detailing his observations of the Martian surface and the intelligent civilization that he… Read More

Not content to map just the Earth and moon, Google today pushed out Google Mars for those space going travelers who need a roadmap. The Google Mars map, which is based on Google Maps technology, is a shaded relief map color coded by altitude and designed in collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University. Three different types of data, all of which were collected by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, are… Read More

Perhaps their clocks were already messed up and they thought it was April, but Roku Labs has posted a humorous press release on their site. The statement says that Roku has switched to Mars time, which will provide them with an “extra 39 minutes” per day. We have to give credit to them for being a company that seems to have fun. It is important to work in an environment you enjoy and if this press release is any… Read More