Posts Tagged ‘Mars’
NightSky.ie Picture of the Week – Mars
Each week I take a look at newly released images and select my favourite. This week I found an image of the Martian landscape which put together based on a series of images from the Rover Opportunity.
Destination Mars – Zoomable Map showing all missions
You could be forgiven for thinking that the 1975 probes Viking 1 and Viking 2 were the first missions to successful make it to Mars. In truth, the first attempts were made by the Soviet Union as early as 1960. There were 17 attempts prior to the first successful landing. The Russians got there first in 1971 when the Mars 3 lander successfully [...]
The Dunes of Mars (thanks to the MRO)
The Mars Orbiter have taken a stunning picture of the Mars surface. It shows patterns on the sand dunes made by local martian winds.
Rare picture of Earth as seen from Mars
This is a truely imspiring image of Earth as seen by a Nasa spacecrafts currently orbiting Mars. This photo is a mix of visual and InfraRed images and apparently took quite a bit of effort to produce. Currently Nasa have a mission to take high resolution images of Mars using the HiRISE instrument (High Resolution Imaging Science [...]
Opportunity Finds Another Big Meteorite | Universe Today
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Water Water everywhere….
It doesn't rain but it pours! Certainly thats what it feels like when within just a short few hours you start to hear about water on the moon (yes the moon!) and now on Mars. Given the fact that water may be more abundant than previously thought it is reasonable to deduce that we can use this information to help us decide possible future [...]