Mars, We Love You
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3,000th Day on Mars
This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-reaches-its-3000th-day-on-mars
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Will the Mars One reality TV mission ever take off? Doubt it!
"New revelations cast serious doubt over whether the Mars One mission to put humans on the Red Planet will ever be achieved….and lets be honest with ourselves, this does seem a tad over the top and daft doesn’t it!? The getting people to Mars part isn’t ‘daft’ as this will happen one day, however, sending a group of people in what appears to be a huge marketing ploy, of which has already been confirmed that the volunteers may only survive for 68 days sounds a tad like some kind of Sci-fi/Horror film doesn’t it"!? (Read More)
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Ice on Mars
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mmm, yummy...and I'm not talking about ice on Mars!
Carry on Mr. Piquex, I'm listening
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I know, right?'
mmm, yummy...and I'm not talking about ice on Mars!
Carry on Mr. Piquex, I'm listening
'
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What Would a Martian Colony Look Like?
"If and when human beings settle on Mars, a number of things need to be addressed beforehand; not the least of which are food, water, housing, protection and transportation."
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"There is no shortage of people today who have an opinion on whether or not humans should colonize Mars. On the pro side, there are those who think that a Martian settlement will serve as a "backup location" for humanity in case some cataclysmic event happens here on Earth."
"On the con side, there are those who feel that focusing on Mars will steal focus away from efforts to save planet Earth. There are also those who think the natural hazards make it a bad idea, while people on the flip side think it is these very things that make it an exciting challenge."
Rocket ships, extreme spacesuits and melting machines: what martian life is made of?
"So what exactly would a colony on Mars look like, and how would it operate?"
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"If and when human beings settle on Mars, a number of things need to be addressed beforehand; not the least of which are food, water, housing, protection and transportation."
"There is no shortage of people today who have an opinion on whether or not humans should colonize Mars. On the pro side, there are those who think that a Martian settlement will serve as a "backup location" for humanity in case some cataclysmic event happens here on Earth."
"On the con side, there are those who feel that focusing on Mars will steal focus away from efforts to save planet Earth. There are also those who think the natural hazards make it a bad idea, while people on the flip side think it is these very things that make it an exciting challenge."
Rocket ships, extreme spacesuits and melting machines: what martian life is made of?
"So what exactly would a colony on Mars look like, and how would it operate?"
(SEE VIDEOS)
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There was a TV series called The Martian Chronicles based on the novel by Ray Bradbury.
I was hooked on it
You can watch some of it here.
I was hooked on it
You can watch some of it here.
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Maine on Mars?
"Dr. Katie Stack Morgan, NASA geologist and New England native, probably didn’t expect the summers she’s spent in Maine since she was a child to collide with her work at the space program. When it came time to name the “neighborhoods” (essentially quadrants) on Mars that the Curiosity rover has been exploring since 2016, though, she drew on memories of her favorite Maine attractions to splash a little bit of New England on the red planet."
Dr. Katie Stack Morgan
“Being out there in a national park and hiking really kind of inspired my love for geology,” she said in an April 2017 Boston Globe article. “When I had an opportunity to pick a name for an area on Mars, I thought, well, I really love the Bar Harbor–Acadia area.”
"Thanks to Stack Morgan, not only will you find a Bar Harbor on the planet (serving as the name of a neighborhood), but a Mount Desert Island, an Acadia, and many more that describe some 300 rocks, dunes, and outcroppings. And while you probably won’t be able to visit these landmarks’ counterparts on Mars anytime soon, you certainly can here on Earth."
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Planet Borrows These Popular Mount Desert Island Landmarks’ Names
"Yes, there’s a Bar Harbor on Mars. There’s also an Acadia, a Mount Desert Island, even a Cadillac Mountain – all thanks to a NASA geologist who, when naming these sites, drew from her favorite Maine attractions.""Dr. Katie Stack Morgan, NASA geologist and New England native, probably didn’t expect the summers she’s spent in Maine since she was a child to collide with her work at the space program. When it came time to name the “neighborhoods” (essentially quadrants) on Mars that the Curiosity rover has been exploring since 2016, though, she drew on memories of her favorite Maine attractions to splash a little bit of New England on the red planet."
Dr. Katie Stack Morgan
“Being out there in a national park and hiking really kind of inspired my love for geology,” she said in an April 2017 Boston Globe article. “When I had an opportunity to pick a name for an area on Mars, I thought, well, I really love the Bar Harbor–Acadia area.”
"Thanks to Stack Morgan, not only will you find a Bar Harbor on the planet (serving as the name of a neighborhood), but a Mount Desert Island, an Acadia, and many more that describe some 300 rocks, dunes, and outcroppings. And while you probably won’t be able to visit these landmarks’ counterparts on Mars anytime soon, you certainly can here on Earth."
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I used to love to go up to Maine.
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We’re Already Colonizing Mars (2021)
It starts with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes, and the sense that a world is ours for the taking.
'Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or, to put it in more mundane terms, Mars will have become another airport. Of course, many crafts have already landed on Mars—the most recent carrying the rover Perseverance, with the Ingenuity copter nested inside."
"That landing spot was named by the NASA team “Octavia E. Butler Landing.” (Official site christenings throughout the solar system must be bestowed by the International Astronomical Union.) At first blush, this seems like a deserved homage to Butler as a visionary artist (for her contributions to the genre of speculative fiction) and as a pathbreaking figure (as the first sci-fi author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship). The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels. It also meaningfully honors a Black woman, on behalf of NASA."
"However, in the context of Butler’s work this appellation becomes deeply complicated. Few writers have been as acutely aware of the moral quandaries of human domination and planetary colonization (see Dawn), and of how colonies function as palimpsests of slavery and other cross-generational patterns of violence (consider Kindred). To call the landing site “Octavia E. Butler Landing” is somewhat paradoxical; it might as well have been named “Be Careful What You Wish For.” (READ MORE)
It starts with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes, and the sense that a world is ours for the taking.
'Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or, to put it in more mundane terms, Mars will have become another airport. Of course, many crafts have already landed on Mars—the most recent carrying the rover Perseverance, with the Ingenuity copter nested inside."
"That landing spot was named by the NASA team “Octavia E. Butler Landing.” (Official site christenings throughout the solar system must be bestowed by the International Astronomical Union.) At first blush, this seems like a deserved homage to Butler as a visionary artist (for her contributions to the genre of speculative fiction) and as a pathbreaking figure (as the first sci-fi author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship). The name conjoins the daring mission of the Perseverance rover with the legacy of a luminous writer of intellectually daring novels. It also meaningfully honors a Black woman, on behalf of NASA."
"However, in the context of Butler’s work this appellation becomes deeply complicated. Few writers have been as acutely aware of the moral quandaries of human domination and planetary colonization (see Dawn), and of how colonies function as palimpsests of slavery and other cross-generational patterns of violence (consider Kindred). To call the landing site “Octavia E. Butler Landing” is somewhat paradoxical; it might as well have been named “Be Careful What You Wish For.” (READ MORE)
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Mars and Venus United by Love
Artist: Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Verona 1528–1588 Venice)
Date: 1570s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Mars and Venus United by Love | Paolo (Paolo Caliari) Veronese | 10.189 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this visually opulent and sensual painting, Cupid binds Mars (the god of war) to Venus with a love knot. It celebrates the civilizing and nurturing effects of love, as milk flows from Venus’s breast and Mars’s warhorse is restrained.
