After four years roaming Mars, the Curiosity Rover went on a temporary shutdown, leaving no clues as to what caused the event. As it’s not the first time the spacecraft encounters troubles, the JPL team kept calm and remotely solved the issue. The explorer encountered an error and decided to cease all activities and enter safe mode. Since then, the scientists have tried to … [Read more...]
Mars Has Seasons Just Like Earth
The Curiosity rover has spent four Earth years on the Red Planet and discovered that Mars has seasons just like our planet does. The only difference is that they are much longer due to the fact that the planet has a wider orbit around the Sun. It may seem far away, but 2030 is actually just around the corner. NASA is rapidly running out of time to calculate all of the … [Read more...]
Short-Term Space Flight Caused Liver Damage in Mice
Even though space travel and otherworldly colonization have been a dream of mankind’s for a very long time, we still live in a relatively moral society. This is why we actually want the people we send into space to come back safe and healthy, and we don’t just run tests sacrificing test subjects until the results are successful. So it’s only natural that worries ensue when … [Read more...]
Red Planet Will Get A Ring Of Its Own
Call it whatever you want: God, the Universe, existence or whatever governs the entire galaxy is following Beyonce’s advice: “if you like it put a ring on it”. Mars seems to be the lucky one in this case as specialists believe that the Red Planet will get a ring of its own. This would put her in the large family of planets with rings in our galaxy: Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and … [Read more...]
Solar Winds Turned Mars to Dust
After extensive scientific research conducted on the Red Planet, NASA just announced a series of astonishing discoveries. Solar winds turned Mars to dust, so concluded the MAVEN spacecraft. During a press conference set of Thursday, NASA pointed out several key facts about Mars. According to the readings relayed by MAVER, a couple of billion years ago, Mars was a lush and … [Read more...]
