January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... been sufficient to carve Valles Marineris. With a volume of 9.85 million cubic kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. Nonetheless, it still means that 98.5 million...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...). Core asteroid impacts should have enriched an appreciable fraction of preserved martian craters with metal ores, rendering Mars the greatest treasury of accessible rare metals in the solar system. Sacramento Station analogies The business benefits...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... of a field indicates that convection has stopped, or dwindled to a level that is incapable of fuelling the field’s development. In early Mars history its magnetic field vanished, causing the near total loss of the planet’s atmosphere, and scientists...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... station, many see China’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As along with Mars, China is also crafting an exploration mission to study the Jovian system set for launch sometime around 2030...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... under the ground or inside the rocks. And in that case, Sagan wrote, “if there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” As astrobiologist David Grinspoon...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... engines to slow the vehicle down enough to be captured by Mars' gravitational pull. The crucial "braking" operation was activated at ...scientific operations. With the safe arrival of Tianwen-1 at Mars, China is now the sixth country to put a ...
