pomarede, 4 months ago to Futurology

🌊 Water Enters Jezero Crater - Artist's Concept

Those waters brought fine-grained sand and mud known for preserving fossilized life in comparable environments on Earth. The Martian crater's lake grew as wide as 35 km in diameter and as deep as 30 m.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26207

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TheSpaceshipper, 6 months ago to scifi

Red Planet was released 23 years ago today.
A.M.E.E (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion), art by Simon Murton.
#scifi #redplanet #mars #robot #conceptart

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GregCocks, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Futurology

NASA Is Locating Ice On Mars With This New Map

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasa-is-locating-ice-on-mars-with-this-new-map/ <-- shared technical article

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01290-z <-- shared paper

https://ammos.nasa.gov/marswatermaps/?mission=MWR <-- web mapping

“The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring.
Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel. But it would also be a major scientific target: Astronauts or robots could one day drill ice cores much as scientists do on Earth, uncovering the climate history of Mars and exploring potential habitats (past or present) for microbial life.…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Mars #water #hydrology #map #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #space #extraterrestrial #mission #RedPlanet #waterresources #watersecurity #ice #fuel #rocketfuel #climate #biology #SWIM #subsurface #NASA #JPL
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NeV_T, 9 months ago to space

PERSEVERANCE 884
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NeV_T, 9 months ago to space

MSL 3921
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