Tag: Mars
Jan 13th: Drones!
From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let’s look at the buzzy scientists. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs
Jan 10th: End-Permian Extinction Lasted 10X Longer on Land Than in Water
The biggest mass extinction event on Earth occurred at the end of the Permian period. Now, scientists have found that the terrestrial portion of the event lasted nearly ten times as long as the ocean version.
Jan 4th: Last Minute Astronomer January 2025
January 2025 is a PLANETARY month! Mars gets big, Mars gets occulted, Mars gets outshined by Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter, then Venus and Saturn pass right by each other, and a brief but intense meteor shower shows up.
Dec 8th: Martian Motherlode & Our Number
Water for Martian Colonist! The discovery of layer of ice under Mars’s surface & 2016 WJ1, a large Earth approaching asteroid.
Nov 22nd: Mars Could Have Supported Life Longer Than Thought
Astronomers discovered that Climate in Mars three billion years ago was similar to Earth now, with a stable ocean in the northern hemisphere
Nov 16th: The Mars Project! Von Braun’s Ideas for a Mars Mission
Today’s we have story about what spaceflight advances could have happened e.g the lost Apollo Missions & Werhner Von Braun’s “Mars Project”.
Oct 20th: Tiny Atira & Ethics and Mars
Today’s Travelers in the Night tell us stories about tiny Atira discovery and should martian microbes be sacrificed to human space exploration?
Oct 13th: Murky & Egg Rock
Today’s Travelers in the Night discuss about 2016 VA discovered by our host and smooth rock on Mars’ Mt. Sharp nicknamed “Egg Rock”.
