The Ukrainian project MarsHopper became the winner of the international Space Apps Challenge competition, which was held by NASA for the fifth year in a row, in the “Audience Award” category. A team from Kyiv offers an alternative technology for moving on the surface of Mars, for which an analogue of a jetpack and a model of a rocket plane have been developed,…
The Curiosity rover can take more than just selfies. He constantly photographs what he sees around him. The NASA team has prepared a 360-degree panorama from the images of Mars. Moreover, it allows the viewer to feel as if he himself is on a neighboring planet. From a computer, this is not so obvious, although it is also impressive. But if you watch the panorama from your smartphone, ...
2015 was wonderful and terrible. The terrorists of the "Islamic State" entered the international arena, the world was replenished with two princesses, scientists found water on Mars, and the Kremlin turned its attention from Donbass to Syria. “Forum” collected the most important and interesting stories of the year. Some of them,…
All lovers of incredible beauty in the starry sky this week will be able to observe an unusual phenomenon - Jupiter, Venus and Mars will line up in a triangle in the eastern part of the sky. Jupiter and Venus will begin to approach Mars, and the three planets, visible as bright stars, ...
Here every day the impossible becomes possible. The Internet and iPhones were invented here, cars with autopilot that carry passengers themselves are already being sold here, and for several years they have been working on a project to send people to Mars. “Forum”, by the way, has already written about private initiative...
US President Barack Obama called US astronauts Scott Kelly and Chell Lindgren, who are currently aboard the International Space Station. Obama congratulated Scott Kelly on a record time in orbit among American astronauts - last Friday he exceeded ...
The first thing to say is that Ridley Scott's The Martian is not based on real events. Yes, many people think so and, believe me, even you may get this feeling while watching. In this case, the main action of the picture unfolds in real points of Mars. Mission "Ares-3" lands in the Acidalian plain: ...
Rover Curiosity photographed a fragment of Mount Sharp on Mars. In the foreground, three kilometers from the camera, high ridges rich in hematite and iron oxide are visible. Behind them are hills of clay minerals, behind which are smooth mountains of sulphate ...
NASA has announced that liquid water exists on Mars. True, this is still an assumption. In addition, it is difficult to verify this with your own eyes, since international rules prohibit conducting research in that area of the planet where there is a theoretical probability of the existence of living organisms, reports Medusa. A NASA press release states that...
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla has proposed dropping thermonuclear bombs on the Mars poles to heat the planet's surface and make it habitable. He said this in the Stephen Colbert show on CBS. The poles of Mars are covered with water ice and frozen carbon dioxide. In theory, the explosion of thermonuclear charges will cause evaporation ...