Scientists tend to get cagey when you ask them to quantify the likelihood of finding life on other planets. Until there’s evidence, probablys don’t get you very far. But, you know, there’s probably life on Mars. That was the subtext from NASA on Monday, as scientists announced, in a landmark finding, that the Red Planet has water flowing on it.
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11/23/2024 - 11:33 pm | View Link - Whoopsie, NASA Might Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the possibility of microbial life. However, for years, scientists have argued that the Viking's experimental techniques might’ve killed hygroscopic microbes living on Mars with too much water.
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Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet. It's red because of rusty iron in the ground. Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons, and weather. It has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon. People would not be able to breathe the air on Mars. Explore Mars!
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Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and the seventh in size and mass. It is a periodically conspicuous reddish object in the night sky. There are intriguing clues that billions of years ago Mars was even more Earth-like than today.
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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet". [22] [23] Mars is among the brightest objects in Earth's sky, and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject for telescope viewing.
11/21/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Link - Mars Facts
Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.
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For more than half a century, NASA's fleet of increasingly sophisticated orbiters, landers, and rovers has helped us transform science fiction into reality, enabling us to piece together detailed information about Mars, our nearest planetary neighbor.
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