Four people will spend a year locked up in a small house in Texas: this is preparation for flights to Mars

Red sand shimmers under the boots of the crew members. In the distance, a rocky mountain range rises from the Martian horizon. A thin layer of red dust coats the solar arrays and equipment needed for the year-long mission. This landscape is not actually on the Red Planet, but quite…

Space tourism is already a reality: where to go and what to see on Mars

On July 20, 2021, the richest man on the planet, Jeff Bezos, traveled to space. Humanity has always been attracted to Mars. In the future, when the Red Planet is colonized by humans, it will be possible to conduct excursions on the planet. Mars is a great place for tourists. Here you can find giant volcanoes,…

Live a year on Mars without leaving Earth: NASA is looking for participants in a special mission

NASA is looking for participants in the first experiment to simulate life on Mars. Program participants will live in extreme conditions. Everything will start in the fall of 2022. The edition "Focus" told in more detail. This program will be one of the stages of preparation for the landing of the first humans on Mars. ...

Everything is more complicated than it seems: how colonizers from Earth will be delivered to Mars and back

Mankind has long dreamed of conquering space, the first goal it has outlined for itself is Mars. But in order to finally launch the first manned mission to the Red Planet, there are still many obstacles to go. What awaits us on the way to Mars, the publication told ...

An important step in the conquest of space: NASA created oxygen on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover instrument on the Red Planet separated oxygen from carbon dioxide on its surface. The oxygen was generated using a device the size of a toaster, which is equipped with the rover. It's called Moxie - Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment. Read more about this...

NASA is preparing the first drone flight on Mars: it was created by a Ukrainian engineer from California

The Ingenuity reconnaissance helicopter attached to the bottom of the American Mars rover Perseverance was lowered to the surface of the Red Planet, reports Liga.net. This can be seen from photographs from the archive of “raw” images on the website of the US Aerospace Administration. The flying drone was not mounted on the rover in a “comfortable” vertical position so that...

In search of a spare planet: how earthlings are exploring Mars and what they want from it

In recent years, Mars has been the most popular hit in news headlines over other planets. In July 2020, three missions went to the Red Planet from Earth at once: the United Arab Emirates, China and the United States. And the whole world watched the landing of the Perseverance rover on February 18 ...

'Seven minutes of horror': broadcast of the NASA rover landing on Mars

On Thursday, February 18, NASA landed its new Perseverance rover on Mars. Landing is scheduled for 20:55 GMT (15:55 - New York, 23:55 - Moscow, 22:55 - Kyiv). As of 16:13 p.m., the rover landed successfully. What kind of rover is this and where to look...

Three underground lakes with water were found on Mars: can this be a sign of life

Three underground lakes were discovered near the South Pole of Mars using the radar of the European Space Agency's automatic interplanetary station Mars Express. Earlier, in 2018, one such lake was already discovered there, writes the BBC. Since the presence of water is a key condition for the existence of life,…

Excursion to the red planet: enthusiasts create an ultra-high quality video tour of Mars

The enthusiasts made a slideshow video with incredibly detailed images from the surface of the fourth planet from the Sun. Writes about it "Liga.Novosti". A group of video enthusiasts ElderFox Documentaries, using the available high-resolution photos of the Red Planet, which have been taken by NASA rovers for many years, composited them into a 4K UHD film. ...

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