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October 11th, 2016

Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars CNN

obamaWe have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s story in space: sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time. Getting to Mars will require continued cooperation between government and private innovators, and we’re already well on our way.

The next step is to reach beyond the bounds of Earth’s orbit. I’m excited to announce that we are working with our commercial partners to build new habitats that can sustain and transport astronauts on long-duration missions in deep space. These missions will teach us how humans can live far from Earth — something we’ll need for the long journey to Mars.

    Posted by jburk to: Humans To Mars      
September 18th, 2014

MAVEN spacecraft close to entering Mars orbit — and it won’t be alone CNN

NASA says its latest Mars-exploring spacecraft is on track to fire up its thrusters and enter orbit this Sunday night, completing a 10-month journey of 442 million miles.
NASA’s MAVEN craft will live up to its formal name — the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution craft — by helping scientists figure out how ancient Mars changed so dramatically into the planet we know today.
It will be the first mission devoted to studying the upper Martian atmosphere as a key to understanding the history of Mars’ climate, water and habitability.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), MAVEN      
June 26th, 2014

NASA’s deep-space craft readying for launch CNN

The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit. But after three long years, NASA’s successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Orion, the agency’s newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December. In future missions, it will journey into deep space — to Mars and beyond — farther than humans have ever gone before.
Orion comes loaded with superlatives. It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles. It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft’s systems for future manned missions.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Crew Exploration Vehicle, Humans To Mars      
February 26th, 2014

UAE Islamic affairs authority warns Muslims against a mission to Mars CNN

Would there be any chance of survival?
That’s a concern for the General Authority of Islamic Affairs & Endowments, or GAIAE, the United Arab Emirates’ religious watchdog, for anyone who wishes to travel to Mars. The GAIAE has issued a fatwa, or an official Islamic ruling, to warn Muslims against a Mars mission. The mission is being planned by the Dutch nonprofit foundation Mars One. In April 2013, it announced its ambitions to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet by 2025.
But the GAIAE likens the journey to a suicide mission. On the authority’s free 24-hour hotline, the issue was deliberated by the center’s specialized muftis, or scholars, who released the following statement: “It is not permissible to travel to Mars and never to return if there is no life on Mars. The chances of dying are higher than living.”
Taking one’s life willingly is against Islamic principles.
In response, Mars One issued a statement asking the UAE’s Islamic authorities to cancel the fatwa, saying every precaution would be taken to reduce the risk to life. “If we may be so bold: the GAIAE should not analyze the risk as they perceive it today,” the statement says. “The GAIAE should assess the potential risk for humans as if an unmanned habitable outpost is ready and waiting on Mars. Only when that outpost is established will human lives be risked in Mars One’s plan.”

    Posted by tourdemars to: Humans To Mars, Mars One      
February 12th, 2014

Study: Water could be flowing on Mars now CNN

The presence of water on Mars is often talked about in the past tense — as in, billions of years in the past. But researchers have found clues that water could be flowing in the present, at least during warm seasons.
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are looking at dark features on Martian slopes that are finger-shaped. They appear and disappear seasonally.
These flows represent the best suggestion we know of that Mars has water right now, scientists say. The study is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
In 2011, Lujendra Ojha and his colleagues announced the evidence for possible saltwater flows on Mars. They published a study in the journal Science based on data from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Life on Mars, Planetology, Reconnaissance Orbiter      
February 3rd, 2014

The spacesuit inspired by medieval armor, made for walking on Mars CNN

It takes Dr Gernot Groomer three hours to put on the spacesuit he hopes will, one day, walk across the surface of Mars.
It’s worth taking time when you’re wearing a suit made from roughly 10,000 parts, designed for the most treacherous environment yet to be encountered by a human being.
Groomer is the Austrian astrobiologist responsible for building a spacesuit for the Mars explorers of tomorrow — and he’s taking inspiration from armor worn by medieval knights.
He explains that — after the titanic effort required to get there — simply surviving on the red planet will be a grueling battle.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Humans To Mars, Technology      
December 10th, 2013

200,000 people apply to live on Mars CNN

If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen up: A Dutch company says it is moving along with its plan to send four lucky Earthlings to colonize the Red Planet. The catch: They won’t ever come back.
The Mars One foundation announced Tuesday that it has secured lead suppliers for an unmanned mission launching in 2018, which involves a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Lockheed Martin has been contracted to study building the lander, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. will develop a concept study for the satellite, Mars One said.

    Posted by jburk to: Humans To Mars      
August 9th, 2013

More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says CNN

More than 100,000 people are eager to make themselves at home on another planet. They’ve applied for a one-way trip to Mars, hoping to be chosen to spend the rest of their lives on uncharted territory, according to an organization planning the manned missions.
The Mars One project wants to colonize the red planet, beginning in 2022. There are financial and practical questions about this venture that haven’t been clarified. Will there be enough money? Will people really be able to survive on Mars? But these haven’t stopped some 30,000 Americans from signing up.
You can see some of the candidates on the project’s website, but they’re not the only ones who have applied, said Bas Lansdorp, Mars One CEO and co-founder.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Humans To Mars      
February 21st, 2013

Mars rover drills, sees planet’s true colors CNN

Mars may have a lot of orangey dust flying around, but now that a rover has retrieved a sample by drilling a rock there, scientists believe the Red Planet may have another color beneath the surface.
The two-ton Mars rover Curiosity, which has been exploring Gale Crater since its miraculous landing on August 6, has become the first robot to drill into a rock to collect a sample on Mars, scientists reported Wednesday. Chemical analyses are still to come, but for now the big news is that the material from the drill appears to be gray.

    Posted by tourdemars to: Mars Science Laboratory      
August 4th, 2012

His other car is on Mars CNN

On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance. He’s lived in the same neighborhood of Pasadena for 18 years, after all.
When he’s driving on Mars, though, every rock he encounters is a new discovery, a step toward humanity’s knowledge of the planet he hopes to visit some day.
Maxwell has the dream job of driving rovers on Mars, and he’s gearing up to take control of the biggest and most sophisticated one yet: Curiosity. He’s one of about a dozen people at NASA tasked with steering the $2.6 billion vehicle from more than 100 million miles away.
“It’s a priceless national asset that happens to be sitting on the surface of another planet,” Maxwell says of the rover, which is set to land on Mars at 1:31 a.m. ET Monday. “You better take that damn seriously.”

    Posted by tourdemars to: Mars Exploration Rovers      
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