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Mars showcase

Published on Oct 28, 2013


From the highest volcano to the deepest canyon, from impact craters to ancient river beds and lava flows, this showcase of images from ESA's Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet.

Mars Express was launched on 2 June 2003 and arrived at Mars six-and-a-half months later. It has since orbited the planet nearly 12 500 times, providing scientists with unprecedented images and data collected by its suite of scientific instruments.

The data have been used to create an almost global digital topographic model of the surface, providing a unique visualisation and enabling researchers to acquire new and surprising information about the evolution of the Red Planet.

The images in this movie were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera and the video was released by the DLR German Aerospace Center as part of the ten years of Mars Express celebrations in June 2013. The music has been created by Stephan Elgner of DLR's Mars Express planetary cartography team. DLR developed and is operating the stereo camera.

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https://youtu.be/XrOsZELKmtg

The First Human to Walk on Mars is Alive Today!

Published on Jul 30, 2014


NASA says that the first people who will visit Mars are already walking around here on Earth! What's it going to take to get humans to the red planet (and back) within a generation? From NASA missions to crowdsourcing colonies, we look at the challenges and rewards of visiting our neighbor planet.

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First Mars Photos From MAVEN & Mangalyaan w/ Christina Ochoa!

Published on Sep 26, 2014


Within hours of arrival on Mars, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) and India's Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission) snapped and sent back pictures of the red planet, helping us to begin to understand the atmosphere and what caused the dramatic change in it. Interestingly, India's MOM orbiter was successfully sent for a mere fraction of MAVEN's cost, and could have interesting implications for the nation. Kim Horcher discusses with special guest Christina Ochoa (Science educator, actress- Matador) discuss!

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https://youtu.be/vdqhGhfX62Y

The Path to Mars: Boeing Leading Charge in Deep Space Mission

Published on Dec 3, 2014


NASA is setting its eyes on the exploration of Mars, an over two year-long journey that will make history. Today's children will be the first explorers of our neighboring planet with help from Boeing. The current development of Boeing's advanced module technology will make possible a safe excursion for astronauts to Mars to discover ground humans have yet to see. Learn more about the path to Mars at buildsomethingbetter.com.

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https://youtu.be/hBLRfgFT7Xc

Inside Monster Martian Volcanoes

Published on Dec 15, 2014


Mars is home to Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, which covers an area the size of Arizona.

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The Soviet robots stormed Mars the first! Edit

Uploaded on Nov 20, 2011

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Could We Use Terraforming to Colonize Mars?

Published on Aug 19, 2015


What would it take to turn Mars into a planet hospitable for human life? Scientists have theorized a number of ideas, from large ice-melting space mirrors to landers that produce greenhouse gas.

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https://youtu.be/pwipxdQ74pU

50 Years of Mars Exploration

Published on Aug 20, 2015


2015 marks 50 years of successful NASA missions to Mars starting with Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, a total of 15 robotic missions led by various NASA centers have laid the groundwork for future human missions to the Red Planet. The journey to Mars continues with additional robotic missions planned for 2016 and 2020, and human missions in the 2030s.

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https://youtu.be/wWwY1md5Dx8

NASA's 1-Year Mars Isolation Test Begins!

Published on Sep 3, 2015


Would you be able to complete this test? Comment below!

A manned mission to Mars will happen some day, but can the first Martians survive each other? 6 NASA recruits-- 3 men and 3 women-- are in isolation in a Mars-like environment to help us understand how and if this will work.

Kim Horcher and Ivan Van Norman (Geek and Sundry Twitch host) discuss!

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Robert D. Braun | New Era of Mars Exploration

Published on Oct 13, 2015


Lecture Title: Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Investments Designed to Enable a New Era of Mars Exploration
Special Lecture Series: AE585 Seminar

In the past twenty years, significant advances have been made in our ability to land scientific payloads on the Mars surface. These advances have come largely from continued evolution and refinement of Viking-era spaceflight technology. Over the past five years, a suite of new EDL technologies has been matured and is rapidly approaching readiness for mission infusion. This presentation will provide an overview of present EDL capabilities and discuss the basis for the present set of EDL technology investments. Looking forward, the benefit of these technology investments will be characterized in terms of the potential future missions that may soon be possible. While Mars exploration will be the focus of this talk, the application of some of these same technologies to science missions to other planetary bodies and a variety of Earth-based applications will also be discussed.

Dr. Robert D. Braun leads an active research program focused on the design of advanced flight systems and technologies for planetary exploration and has contributed to numerous spaceflight projects. He has also served as a senior leader for several engineering and technology organizations at NASA, including service as the NASA Chief Technologist in 2010-2011. From 1989 to 2003, he was a member of the technical staff of the NASA Langley Research Center. Dr. Braun received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State in 1987, M.S. in Astronautics from the George Washington University in 1989, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1996. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vice Chair of the NRC Space Studies Board, and the author or co-author of over 275 technical publications in the fields of atmospheric flight dynamics, planetary exploration, design optimization, and systems engineering. From January through June 2015, he served as a Moore Distinguished Scholar at Caltech.

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https://youtu.be/D2AKkVDZ7OY

Controlling Robots on Mars (from Tested: The Show!)

Published on Nov 23, 2015


Bobak Ferdowsi, systems engineer at NASA JPL (AKA Mohawk Guy), was a guest at our recent live show to talk about the challenges of controlling a robot on Mars. To illustrate the communications delay of interplanetary remote-control, Will and Jeremy stage a demo using a reprogrammed RC toy with time-delay controls!

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Mars exploration zones

Published on Dec 22, 2015


This concept animation shows just one of many potential concepts for how the first human landing site on Mars might evolve throughout the course of multiple human expeditions to the Red Planet over a decade or more.

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Let's Not Use Mars as a Backup Planet | Lucianne Walkowicz

Published on Jan 14, 2016


Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA's Kepler mission, searching for places in the universe that could support life. So it's worth a listen when she asks us to think carefully about Mars. In this short talk, she suggests that we stop dreaming of Mars as a place that we'll eventually move to when we've messed up Earth, and to start thinking of planetary exploration and preservation of the Earth as two sides of the same goal. As she says, "The more you look for planets like Earth, the more you appreciate our own planet."

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https://youtu.be/mFDPj36vbGE

Published on Dec 23, 2013


The innermost moon of Mars, Phobos, is seen here in full 360 degree glory. The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express at various times throughout the mission's 10 years.

The moon's parallel sets of grooves are perhaps the most striking feature, along with the giant 9 km-wide Stickney impact crater that dominates one face of the 27 x 22 x 18 km moon.

The origin of the moon's grooves is a subject of much debate. One idea assumes that the crater chains are associated with impact events on the moon itself.

Another idea suggests they result from Phobos moving through streams of debris thrown up from impacts 6000 km away on the surface of Mars, with each 'family' of grooves corresponding to a different impact event.

Mars Express has imaged Phobos from a wide range of distances, but will make its closest flyby yet on 29 December 2013, at just 45 km above the moon.

Although this is too close to take images, gravity experiments will give insight into the interior structure of Phobos.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

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Mars: Dry Ice and Dunes

Published on Jan 24, 2013


Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars.

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https://youtu.be/XOPUdZtnt24

Mars showcase

Published on Oct 28, 2013


From the highest volcano to the deepest canyon, from impact craters to ancient river beds and lava flows, this showcase of images from ESA's Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet.

Mars Express was launched on 2 June 2003 and arrived at Mars six-and-a-half months later. It has since orbited the planet nearly 12 500 times, providing scientists with unprecedented images and data collected by its suite of scientific instruments.

The data have been used to create an almost global digital topographic model of the surface, providing a unique visualisation and enabling researchers to acquire new and surprising information about the evolution of the Red Planet.

The images in this movie were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera and the video was released by the DLR German Aerospace Center as part of the ten years of Mars Express celebrations in June 2013. The music has been created by Stephan Elgner of DLR's Mars Express planetary cartography team. DLR developed and is operating the stereo camera.

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https://youtu.be/Pg7KtfqsYIw

What Mars looked like 4 billion years ago

Published on Nov 19, 2013


Once warm and wet, Mars is now cold and dry. NASA's MAVEN orbiter will look for clues to how the planet's atmosphere has developed, and how density fluctuations might affect future crewed missions

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https://youtu.be/tWNVKfJoNis

ESA Unveils Spherical Mars Sample Return Container

Published on Nov 19, 2013


The container is engineered to carry 11 receptacles, store them under 14?F (-10?C), and weigh less than 11lbs (5kg). It will land on Mars with a sample providing rover. When it is filled, it will launch and rendezvous with a return-trip spacecraft.

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https://youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s

Seven Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars

Published on Jun 22, 2012


Team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover's final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.

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https://youtu.be/5ekUbzciyKg

Bill Nye: NASA can get humans to Mars by 2033

Published on May 17, 2016


NASA could get a crew of astronauts to orbit Mars by 2033 without increasing its budget beyond the rate of inflation, says Bill Nye the Science Guy. That's exciting news.

Transcript - NASA could put humans in orbit around Mars in the year 2033 – 2033 is not arbitrary. It’s when there’s a pretty good orbit - there’s pretty good orbits happening often enough - but 2033 is a real good orbit of the Earth and Mars. So you could get humans in orbit around Mars without raising the NASA budget beyond letting it increase with inflation, which is an increase but not an extraordinary one.

Furthermore, in order to pull this off without any increase in the NASA budget, everybody has to stick to these agreements that NASA will no longer be the lead funder or supporter of the International Space Station. They’re going to retire the space station or let commercial entities take it over.

But if you did that, really stuck to the agreements and you let the NASA budget increase with inflation you could have humans orbiting Mars in 2033. If the Mars 2020 rover is enabled to land in a place where there might be salty water - or ancient salty water - and were to discover evidence of life, perhaps we would accelerate that schedule.

And as we say if you really have a plan to really put humans orbiting Mars in 2033 which would enable them to land two, three or four years later to land on Mars. People would come out of everywhere to volunteer for that mission. We’d have astronauts. We’d have mission controllers. We’d have engineers. We’d have venture capitalists enabling new technologies to be sold to NASA or other space stations.

If you included other space agencies around the world – Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Chinese space agency, even which is politically difficult but nevertheless possible. Any space research organization – JAXA, the Japanese aerospace exploration agency. If you included all those guys you could lower the price for NASA and then really enable humans to get there in new, cool ways.

The reason though, everybody, is not to go live on Mars. That’s just beyond – they just haven’t thought through how difficult that is. When there’s nothing to breathe, not just nothing to drink or eat but nothing to breathe it makes it complicated. But if you were to find evidence of life it would change the course of human history. Not overnight but over the course of months and years. Everybody would get to thinking about what it means to be a living thing in the cosmos and it would change us.

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Enduring the journey to Mars | MARS: how to get to Mars

Published on Oct 22, 2016


The biggest thinkers in the world discuss how astronauts would endure the long trip to Mars.

About MARS:
From executive producers Brian Grazer & Ron Howard, MARS is an epic series following a thrilling quest - in 2032 - to colonize Mars. In a unique blend of scripted drama and feature-film caliber visual effects, intercut with documentary sequences, the series presents what the greatest minds in space exploration are doing to make traveling to Mars a reality, and shows us the world they seek.

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TIL: Life could exist on Mars thanks to methane

Published on Oct 28, 2016


Discovering life on Mars is now looking more promising. According to geobiologist Jeff Marlow, anywhere on Earth we see liquid water and enough energy, we see life. The best way to find it on Mars might be to consider what early life on Earth looked like.

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TIL: Choosing a Mars landing spot is harder than you think

Published on Nov 11, 2016

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Article "Should both the successes and failures of space robots curb the ambition of a manned Mars mission? (https://robohub.org/should-both-the-successes-and-failures-of-space-robots-curb-the-ambition-of-a-manned-mars-mission)"

by Alex Kirkpatrick
November 11, 2016

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https://youtu.be/iwIjS2O4SBY

Engineers have already built vehicles to drive on the Martian surface

Published on Nov 21, 2016

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https://youtu.be/qyUMQ5SQg38

Fly over Mawrth Vallis

Published on Dec 8, 2016


This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, highlights Mawrth Vallis, a 600 km-long, 2 km-deep outflow channel at the boundary of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of Mars.

The movie begins at the mouth of the channel in Chryse Planitia, and heads towards the apparent source region in the Arabia Terra highlands.

The 4 billion year-old plateau is characterised by many impact craters, indicative of its great age.

Zooming in, patches of light and dark deposits are revealed. The light-toned layered sediments are among the largest outcrops of clay minerals – phyllosilicates – on Mars. Their presence indicates the presence of liquid water in the past.

The variety of water-bearing minerals and the possibility that they might contain a record of an ancient, habitable environment on Mars led scientists to propose Mawrth Vallis as a candidate landing site for the ExoMars 2020 mission.

The animation is based on a colour mosaic and digital terrain model derived from data collected by the high-resolution stereo camera on Mars Express and released earlier this year.

"Mawrth Vallis (https://exploration.esa.int/mars/54721-mawrth-vallis)"

December 10, 2016

"Mawrth Vallis martian mosaic (https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/Mawrth_Vallis_martian_mosaic)"

September 29, 2016

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NASA Langley Engineers Propose Mars Flyer Concept

Published on Mar 27, 2017


Imagine being able to survey more parts of another planet like Mars than ever before. Orbiters and rovers have been successful so far but engineers keep looking for new ways to gather information. One way may be by using an unmanned aerial vehicle like this Mars Flyer concept.

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https://youtu.be/JXZa8cmab1g

NASA at Mars: 20 years of 24/7 exploration

Published on Jun 22, 2017


No one under 20 has experienced a day without NASA at Mars. The Pathfinder mission, carrying the Sojourner rover, landed on Mars on July 4, 1997. In the 20 years since Pathfinder's touchdown, eight other NASA landers and orbiters have arrived successfully, and not a day has passed without the United States having at least one active robot on Mars or in orbit around Mars.

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Article "How to drive a robot on Mars (https://phys.org/news/2018-11-robot-mars.html)"

by Ivan Couronne
November 12, 2018

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https://youtu.be/uoblCdedNNM

Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet

Published on Jan 10, 2019


On 25 December 2003, ESA’s Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the course of its fifteen year history has captured thousands of images covering the globe.

This video compilation highlights some of the stunning scenes revealed by this long-lived mission. From breathtaking horizon-to-horizon views to the close-up details of ice- and dune-filled craters, and from the polar ice caps and water-carved valleys to ancient volcanoes and plunging canyons, Mars Express has traced billions of years of geological history and evolution.

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The most epic sites on Mars that humans should visit

Published on Feb 11, 2019


Mars contains some of the greatest attractions in the solar system. Here's stunning footage of those attractions like Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano which is three times as tall as Mount Everest. And Valles Marines, a canyon as long as the entire contiguous United States.

Following is a transcript of the video:

Imagine you could vacation on Mars. At first glance, Mars appears very different from Earth, but if you take a closer look, you'll discover that the Red Planet isn't all that different from our own.

Our first stop, the North Pole. This ice cap is bigger than Texas, and is mostly covered in water ice and solid carbon dioxide, aka dry ice.

Heading south, we'll visit Kasei Valles. It's a vast system of chasms five times longer and 10 times wider than the Grand Canyon, and scientists think it formed in a similar way. Billions of years ago, Mars was warmer, and covered with liquid water, which likely carved out valleys like this one.

Mawrth Vallis is another valley close by, but it looks very different from our previous spot, thanks to its multicolored layers of clay. These deposits probably formed over millennia as Mars shifted towards a colder, drier climate, and they could provide clues to the history of liquid water and possible ancient life on Mars.

The next stop is another place that may have been teeming with life long ago, Bacquerel Crater. It's filled with rocks made of sulfate similar to ones on Earth that form after water evaporates, which has led scientists to suspect that this crater may once have been a massive lake over 160 kilometers wide.

Next stop, Iani Chaos. Now, this is one type of terrain you won't find anywhere on Earth. It's a maze of rugged cliffs and pillar-like hills called mesas that extend for 200 kilometers, and since there is nothing like it on Earth, scientists aren't exactly sure how these unique features formed.

Its larger neighbor, Hydraotes Chaos, probably formed in a similar mysterious way. It stretches 350 kilometers, the same distance as New York City to Boston.

West of Hydraotes, we find one Mars's greatest attractions, Valles Marineris. It's the largest canyon in the solar system, running the length of New York to Los Angeles, and plunging four times as deep as the Grand Canyon.

Following the canyon's main channel north, we reach Hebes Chasma. It's tiny compared to Valles Marineris, but it's worth the trek for a glimpse of the chasma's prominent mesa.

And no trip to Mars would be complete without a visit to Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system. It covers a region the size of Arizona. It's three times as tall as Mount Everest, and can comfortably fit all the volcanoes in Hawaii.

Moving south, we'll see Promethei Planum. It's a plane near the South Pole, covered in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Next, we'll swing around to Rabe Crater. It's covered in giant sand dunes 150 to 200 meters high, almost as tall as the Golden Gate Bridge.

Nearing the end of our tour is one of the oldest regions of Mars that dates back to at least 3.9 billion years ago, Neukum Crater. Scientists think this crater formed from a powerful impact early in Mars's history. In fact, you can still see pockmarks left by the crash.

The last crater on our tour is formally named Galle Crater, but many call it Happy Face Crater for obvious reasons.

Finally, we've reached our last stop, the South Pole. In 2018, scientists found evidence of a liquid lake beneath the ice, which could be filled with saltwater.

But while that's a promising discovery, we still have much to learn about this fascinating world, like whether life once existed in those ancient lakes, or if it still exists today, possibly somewhere underground. But perhaps the biggest question of all, could human life survive here? Maybe in the future, you won't have to imagine your Martian vacation.

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Dreaming of the red planet | Alyssa Carson | TEDxBucharest

Published on Feb 21, 2019


Alyssa is a 17-year-old with a passion for the Red Planet. Here she talks about how this passion blossomed when she was just a little child and how, in fifteen years, it will be her home: “Some of you might call it the Red Planet. Some of you might call it Mars. I call it Home”. She explains what it takes to become an astronaut and the journey that awaits her. MARS ONE Ambassador.

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https://youtu.be/NdrNhsQ6-Rk

“Stonebriggs” in the Glen Torridon area on Mars

Published on Mar 30, 2019


NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission: Curiosity rover is exploring Glen Torridon, a clay area on the lower slopes of Mount Sharpe. In March 2019, Curiosity imaged a zone with round and smooth clasts, nicknamed Stonebriggs. The rounded pebbles could have been shaped by ancient water flow. The raw images were acquired with Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on 24 March 2019.

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https://youtu.be/PQQljrblhqc

'Soft robots' for Mars exploration? NASA researching (https://www.space.com/soft-robots-could-crawl-on-the-moon.html)

Published on May 8, 2019


NASA Langley interns are researching creating soft robots to create temporary structures on Mars and other worlds.

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https://youtu.be/fSsmta8Ahbw

What kind of government will exist on Mars? | Michael Shermer (https://michaelshermer.com)

May 6, 2020


The colonization of Mars is a real possibility for the not-too-distant future. A big question that author Michael Shermer and others are considering is how what we know about government on Earth will shape the politics of a new planet.

Favored by Elon Musk, Shermer shoots down the suggestion of a direct democracy because he says that historically it does not work. Direct democracy can lead to a "mob mentality" where hysterics overtake logic, leading to witch hunts and other bad consequences.

Shermer explains why he thinks the government on Mars will, in many ways, mirror what we know as a representative democracy. There will be constitutional republic and a Bill of Rights that determines what people can and can't do.
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Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.

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MICHAEL SHERMER: So governing Mars. Are there any lessons for the Red planet that we can take there from the Blue planet? I think there are. So I included this chapter in my book because in the section on government and economics and classical liberalism and political philosophy I think we have an opportunity here that we're about to colonize Mars. This is stunning that we can even contemplate doing this. And maybe it'll never happen, but let's say it does because it's a very realistic possibility either through Elon Musk or through a government program like NASA. This is possible. So we should start thinking now about, well, what are we going to take there? And I don't just mean what kind of food and records and books. I mean what kind of government are we going to set up there. Now it's possible that future Martians will think of something completely new that we've never thought of and they'll try some experiments and they'll come up with something great and we can important from the Red planet lessons for our own planet. That's possible. That's a sci-fi scenario that people have considered.

But I think it's not just let's abandon everything we've done on Earth because it was a failure. It's not a failure. I think there are certain things, experiments we've run that work better than others. In general democracies work better than autocracies. Free markets, even though regulated, free markets work better than command economies like in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and China before 1980's. I think those are some big global lessons that are obvious. And then more specific things like again granting people free thought and free speech. No censorship. That's a hard earned lesson. When you look at the history of free speech going back thousands of years, what we take for granted today like I can think and say anything I want and go on the internet and create my own blog and just rip into the government or to rip religion or whatever. That is really new and unusual in most centuries prior to this one. You'd be hung, burned at the stake, jailed for saying these things, thinking those things.
So those kinds of lessons I think we should take with us. I tweeted just for fun at Elon Musk and he tweeted back to my astonishment because he likes to think about these sorts of issues. What kind of government? He said well direct democracy. Okay, our founding fathers considered that. There was evidence even then that it doesn't work and lots of evidence since then that it doesn't work. The reason is because direct democracy is something like a mob mentality that is let's just do whatever the majority says. Well, the problem is you get mobs of people hysterical about something and the majority says burn women at the stake because we think they're cavorting with demons in the middle of the night and that's the cause of crop failures and pandemics and disasters. No, that's a crazy idea. That's a wrong idea and the mob got it wrong. There's this business about the wisdom of crowds...

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How to make your own Mars lander

May 9, 2020


Josh challenges Paul to create a Mars Lander and safely land an egg astronaut onto the ground.

Give it a go using whatever you can find around the house and let us know how you do. #Mars #MarsWeek #Space

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https://youtu.be/9AeCaKMEexg

Anu Ojha: will humans make it to Mars?

May 11, 2020


Will humans ever get to Mars for real? Anu Ojha, director of the UK’s National Space Academy, explores the possibilities.

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https://youtu.be/D0nocO4paEQ

Why we're sending a helicopter to Mars

May 17, 2020


When NASA launches its next Mars rover this summer, it will have a very special cargo on board: A helicopter. NASA's Ingenuity aims to be the first robot to take flight on another planet. Here's why it's such a big deal.

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https://youtu.be/7Cnt_NlNHyQ

Escape the planet: How humans will live on Mars

Jul 10, 2020


Sick of life on Earth? In the final episode of Hacking the Apocalypse, Claire Reilly looks at what it will take to get humans on Mars, and how we'll survive when we get there.

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https://youtu.be/N0f-QkEVU7U

6 NASA technologies to get humans to Mars

Jul 20, 2020


NASA is advancing many technologies to send astronauts to Mars as early as the 2030s. Here are six things we are working on right now to make future human missions to the Red Planet possible.

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https://youtu.be/ZEyAs3NWH4A

New: Mars In 4K

Jul 17, 2020


A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in stunning 4K resolution. We also talk about the cameras on board the Martian rovers and how we made the video.

The cameras on board the rovers were the height of technology when the respective missions launched.

A question often asked is:
‘Why don’t we actually have live video from Mars?’

Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second.

Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second.

However, this link is only available for about 8 minutes each Sol, or Martian day.

As you would expect, sending HD video at these speeds would take a long long time. As nothing really moves on Mars, it makes more sense to take and send back images.

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https://youtu.be/DpWXBlqWfIc

Making oxygen on Mars

Jul 28, 2020


MOXIE, short for the Mars OXygen In situ resource utilization Experiment, is one of the seven experiments hitching a ride on the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. It's a collaboration between MIT AeroAstro, the MIT Haystack Observatory, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Carbon dioxide makes up about 96 percent of the gas in Mars' atmosphere. MOXIE contains a system that pulls in Martian air and electrochemically splits the carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide, and an onboard sensor will allow us to measure the purity of the oxygen we generate. MOXIE will help us get ready for future missions by demonstrating that we can make our own oxygen on Mars to use for rocket propellant and for the crew to breathe when we get there.

AeroAstro graduate student Eric Hinterman has been working on MOXIE since 2016, when he started modeling the MOXIE software and hardware as part of his Master’s thesis. He has continued his work as a PhD candidate, where he is looking at the design and engineering challenges of scaling up the MOXIE technology to a full-size system that could support human life on a Mars mission in the future.

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https://youtu.be/Opnk-cPOM50

WATCH: Elon Musk at 2020 Mars Society Event - Livestream

Streamed live Oct 16, 2020


It's been over four years since Elon Musk first revealed his audacious plan to lay the foundation for a city on Mars. Now the SpaceX founder and leading Martian real estate evangelist will give an update on his interplanetary opus at this year's virtual Mars Society convention.

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https://youtu.be/lFaZyZRCXas

How to land on Mars: an explainer

May 21, 2021


May.20 -- A journey through the final minutes.

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Article "How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06887)"

by Ruth A. Bamford (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruth-bamford-bbb44619), Barry J. Kellett, James L. Green (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-green-a2a84a13), Chuanfei Dong, Vladimir Airapetian, Bob Bingham
November 12, 2021

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https://youtu.be/fhtw7Dpntb4

Looking for Life on Mars | Full Documentary I NOVA | PBS

Premiered Feb 25, 2021


Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars.

The spacecraft will blaze into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and attempt to lower the Perseverance Rover in the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life. Perseverance will comb the area for signs of life and collect samples for possible return to Earth. Traveling onboard is a four-pound helicopter that will conduct a series of test flights—the first on another planet.

During its journey, Perseverance will also test technology designed to produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, in hopes that the gas could be used for fuel—or for humans to breathe—on future missions.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:42 Mars: Exploring The Red Planet with the Curiosity Rover
09:49 Looking Life in the Jezero Crater of Mars
14:56 Preparing the Perseverance Rover for Mars
22:23 The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Launch of Rover
25:22 The Launch of the Perseverance Rover
30:07 Attempting to Fly a Copter on Mars
33:58 Creating Breathable Air on Mars
38:32 How Will the Samples Come Back to Earth?
44:13 The Suspenseful Landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars

topdocumentaryfilms.com/looking-life-mars (https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/looking-life-mars)