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#mars

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Mikko Tuomi

Billions wasted, mysteries unsolved: The missions #NASA may be forced to abandon.

#Mars Sample Return: The mission: Bring back the first samples from another #planet, look for signs of #life, and prepare for future crewed exploration of Mars.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: The mission: Discover what #planets are like throughout the galaxy, search for black holes, and help reveal the nature of dark energy.

DAVINCI: The mission: Descend to the surface of #Venus and probe its atmosphere along the way, testing whether the planet ever had oceans or could have hosted life.

VERITAS: The mission: Map the surface of Venus and study its interior, unveiling how the planet has changed over time.

TESS: The mission: Discover thousands of planets around the nearest stars.

#astronomy
planetary.org/articles/billion

Nancy Grace Roman primary mirror
The Planetary SocietyBillions wasted, mysteries unsolved: The missions NASA may be forced…Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions — including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries.
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Spaceflight 🚀

#NASA is considering launching rockets to #Mars 🔴 next year. #SpaceX’s #Starship is not the only contender for the trip. #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn is already contracted to send two small #satellites 🛰️ to Mars politico.com/news/2025/05/07/n

#US 🇺🇸 – #Italy 🇮🇹 cooperation for "two Mars Missions in 📆 2026 and 2028" whitehouse.gov/briefings-state

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SETI Institute

Next #SETILive: Red Planet, Blue Past
TODAY, Thursday, May 08, 2:30 PM PDT / 5:30 PM EDT

A groundbreaking study reveals that billions of years ago, Mars experienced significant precipitation—either rain or snow—that carved out extensive networks of valleys and channels across its surface. Join Beth Johnson and Dr. Amanda Steckel as they discuss the results of this study and its implications for finding life, especially past life, on Mars.

WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/5ipxP0wZ7bQ

SETI Live record button logo. Text: Red Planet, Blue Past with Beth Johnson and Amanda Steckel. Background: Artist's impression of Mars with water and a bluer sky than today. Inset: Photos of Beth Johnson and Amanda Steckel.
#scicomm#mars
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Kevin Russell

@scavello

The core is apparently still somewhat plastic (moving, flowing) just not enough.

And thank you for passing along your find.

The spin up, by the way, may provide some surface water by itself

If spinning up Mars does increase core heat, old Martian water, that has fallen deep into the Mars crust, will be forced out, just as it is on earth.*

Bip bip bip on the edge is the path forward.

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#Mars

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What are geysers, how do they work and where they are? Among the most fascinating natural events, geysers are intermittent eruptions of hot water and steam. Let’s find out how they are formed, where they are and how they work. continua su: https://www.geopop.it/cosa-sono-i-geyser-come-funzionano-e-dove-si-trovano/ https://www.geopop.it/
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DoomsdaysCW

Rage of the #Oligarchs - #NaomiKlein: ‘What They Want Is Absolutely Everything’

The all-star academic and Shock Doctrine author breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want

May 4, 2025

Excerpt: [Klein] "But now, #capitalism has entered a radical and #apocalyptic phase. There is no #utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their #LuxuryBunkers and their #spaceships to #Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally. It’s end times! Get onto your rocket ship, or get into your golden city in the sky. And that is distinct."

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
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#Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EndTimesFascism #LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills #EndStageCapitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism #Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth

Naomi Klein at Bedford Square Gardens on June 13, 2024 in London. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · Naomi Klein: ‘What They Want Is Absolutely Everything’By Tim Dickinson
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Spaceflight 🚀

A fusion-powered #spacecraft could make the trip to #Mars 🔴 in 90 days or less.The roadmap identifies milestones in #FusionPropulsion technology to deploy fusion spacecraft in the 2030s, on par with the vast majority of fusion developers’ commercialization timelines (89% of fusion companies* anticipate fusion on the grid in the 2030s or before) fusionindustryassociation.org/

* members : fusionindustryassociation.org/

Fusion Industry Association · FIA Launches Fusion Spacecraft Propulsion Roadmap - Fusion Industry AssociationFusion has the potential to revolutionize space propulsion as we know it. One leg of a mission to Mars using conventional chemical propulsion can take up to nine months. In contrast, a fusion-powered spacecraft could make the trip in 90 days or less. 
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Kevin Russell

@scavello

Lets treat Mars as loved one and help it recover, and not a squat filled with garbage. Love Mars back to health and enjoy a reborn home.

The rotation slowed, the atmosphere evaporated over millennia. Both remedial. Don't think cheap, or quick. Help Mars to its feet.

#mars#iceteroids
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Nonilex

#Musk 1st announced his intention to build #space-based #internet, which he would eventually call #Starlink, in 2015. He had plans to settle #Mars, …the moons of #Jupiter, & maybe #asteroids too. All those space colonies would have to be connected via #satellite-based communication; Starlink itself might…be adapted for this use. Indeed, Starlink’s terms…ask customers to affirm they “recognize Mars as a free planet & that no Earth-based govt has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.”

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Andrea Luck

There's something really special about seeing the atmosphere fade into the darkness of space in images from orbit (except if you're a flat-planeter)

This is Mars, Cloudy Elysium region by NASA Viking 1 in 1978!

Full size: flic.kr/p/2r2XN9E

Mission: NASA Viking Orbiter 1
Image Time: 1978-05-28T21:33:39Z
Filters Red, Green, Violet
Product IDs: 710a58, 710a56, 710a52

Credit: NASA/JPL/AndreaLuck CC BY

A view of Mars from orbit, captured by NASA's Viking 1 in 1978, showing the planet’s rusty reddish surface curving toward space at the right edge. In the center, a bright, whitish, oval shaped cloud covers the peak of Elysium Mons, a large volcano. To the left of it, dark, fractured cracks run across the surface. These are the Elysium Fossae near the top and Elysium Chasma below. At the bottom of the image, Albor Tholus appears as a subtle, circular volcanic rise. Near the top, Hecates Tholus is faintly visible as a smaller, rounded volcano. The background to the right is the blackness of space, creating a stark contrast with the soft Martian atmosphere fading into a bluish haze near the edge, which is one of the most stunning aspects of the image.
#Space#Astrodon#Astronomy
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