I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.
#PPOD: As carbon dioxide frost sublimates with the warming Martian spring, a pattern emerges of dark brown sand dunes interspersed with the remaining bright frost. Image taken by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona
The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence.
@theverge reports: "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life."
Wow 300 images captured by Curiosity to build a panoramic survey at her Sol 4175 location, ten days ago. This video show them at a rate of 10/second. It took about 50 minutes for the rover to complete this scan with her left mast camera.
This discovery shows that these #sediments were formed in a river, a delta or near the shore of an ancient lake. It raises questions about #oxydation processes on Mars... and reinforces the hypothesis of past #habitability...
Les paysages qui entourent Perseverance sont vraiment majestueux ces temps-ci. Le rover remonte le lit asséché de la rivière Neretva, qui perce le rempart du cratère Jezero, rempart qu'on voit ici en arrière-plan. Il s'élève à plusieurs centaines de mètres de haut !
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Le rover Perseverance continue de longer le lit asséché de la rivière Neretva, qui alimentait autrefois le lac du cratère Jezero. Les rides d'eau ont été remplacées par des dunes de sable, où repose Ingenuity 🚁.
Image acquise aujourd'hui sur Mars à 13h45 heure locale. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasappere/53710547890/in/dateposted-public/
Some mind-boggling details of a Martian impact crater taken by NASA's HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image has everything: layers, boulders, dunes, and maybe some polygonal terrain, too. The blue filter is used here to learn about morphologies, textures, and composition.
Check out this Martian panorama, captured by Curiosity two days ago, on Sol 4174. It is made of 50 adjacent images, each 1328x1184 pixels. Let's go for some zooms👇
New evidence: Mars used to be similar to Earth, even a habitable place (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
There is new proof that Mars used to be a wet planet, a cold world with water and snow
Mysterious Picture crowd of giant spiders on Mars, what's that? (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter satellite has discovered a strange structure they call the "martian spider mark".
This Is the sound of Mars from 140 million miles (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
The rover's pictures and the lander's recordings of the first sounds of Martian winds are helping us learn more about our friend in space