Mars

[Foggy]

I have a special fascination for the Red Planet.



According to Alexa, Mars is currently 165.8 million miles from the Earth.
According to Alexa, Mars is currently 154.6 million miles from the Sun.

Okay, wait, Mars is farther from the Sun than Earth is, everybody knows that. Except today it isn't true, because of orbits.

There are 6 active Mars missions being run by Earthlings:

• InSight
• Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Curiosity Rover
• Mars Express
• Mars Odyssey

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars ... index.html

[Suranis]

View of Milky Way Galaxy from the surface of Mars.

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[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[RTH10260]

Don't let the sun .... or there will be a black hole

[poplove]

I love Mars ear candy.

[neonzx]

[much ado]

Anyone remember this? Disney's Mars and Beyond, aired 1957. I was eight when it came out. I loved it.



There's a five minute segment where the Disney writers and animators let their imaginations run wild with bizarre speculation. This link starts the video at that part...

[Phoenix520]

I haz a proud-adjacent. Our friend for whom mr 520 made camera parts got an award!!

Hi Everyone, I was awarded the 2021 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for the development of the PIXL instrument on the Perseverance Rover. I'm particularly grateful as only 2 were awarded across the entire Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover effort. Due to Covid it was delayed...but now it is real. Great thanks to the many people who made this award possible. Even greater THANKS to the truly great team who made PIXL possible. And above all, thanks to PIXL's Principal Investigator, Abigail Allwood.

[much ado]

Very cool!

[neonzx]

I was so high during this movie in the theater mid 90s. (and that was not something I normally did -- but you know, sh*t happens). What a great movie.

[AndyinPA]

That movie was a real hoot!

[Slim Cognito]

I haz a proud-adjacent. Our friend for whom mr 520 made camera parts got an award!!

Hi Everyone, I was awarded the 2021 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for the development of the PIXL instrument on the Perseverance Rover. I'm particularly grateful as only 2 were awarded across the entire Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover effort. Due to Covid it was delayed...but now it is real. Great thanks to the many people who made this award possible. Even greater THANKS to the truly great team who made PIXL possible. And above all, thanks to PIXL's Principal Investigator, Abigail Allwood.

Cool!!

[chancery]

I haz a proud-adjacent. Our friend for whom mr 520 made camera parts got an award!!

Hi Everyone, I was awarded the 2021 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for the development of the PIXL instrument on the Perseverance Rover. I'm particularly grateful as only 2 were awarded across the entire Mars 2020/Perseverance Rover effort. Due to Covid it was delayed...but now it is real. Great thanks to the many people who made this award possible. Even greater THANKS to the truly great team who made PIXL possible. And above all, thanks to PIXL's Principal Investigator, Abigail Allwood.

That's way cool. I've been following Mars rovers since the 2004 MER landings.

[keith]

I was so high during this movie in the theater mid 90s. (and that was not something I normally did -- but you know, sh*t happens). What a great movie.
Mars Attacks: US Congress

[neonzx]

I was so high during this movie in the theater mid 90s. (and that was not something I normally did -- but you know, sh*t happens). What a great movie.
Mars Attacks: US Congress

Oh boy. All we had to do was play yodeling and the Martian heads exploded. Planet saved!!

[Foggy]

The PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) for the Perseverance rover is a microfocus X-ray fluorescence instrument that rapidly measures elemental chemistry at sub-millimeter scales by focusing an X-ray beam to a tiny spot on the target rock or soil and analyzing the induced X-ray fluorescence.

Now that's amazing.

[RTH10260]

Tragic Final Flight Of NASA's Martian Helicopter - Stranded in Neretva Vallis

Scott Manley
29 Jan 2024

After an emergency landing, a test flight and a loss of communications we were sad to hear that Ingenuity's flying days are over and it will end its mission parked on sand dunes in an ancient riverbed.

[RTH10260]

a compilation of various NASA clips from Mars robots

[chancery]

There are 6 active Mars missions being run by Earthlings:

• InSight
• Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Curiosity Rover
• Mars Express
• Mars Odyssey

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars ... index.html

Dunno how I missed this post.

You left out some active missions, including some big ones.

• The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, mapping Mars’ atmosphere, entered orbit 2016
• Perseverance Rover (Mars 2020), landed 2020
• Ingenuity, autonomous helicopter carried to Mars by the Perseverance Rover, active 2021-2024
• Tianwen-1 and Zhurong, China's Mars orbiter and rover, landed 2021
• Hope, the United Arab Emirates' Mars mission, entered orbit 2021

Also, the Insight Lander (2018-2022) had gone silent when you started this thread.

In your defense, NASA's web links for the general public have always been a mess, insanely difficult to navigate, frequently reorganized, and rarely updated after the first year or so. The NASA link you posted is dead.

I relied on the "Active Missions" section of this page.. I should caution that the Planetary Society has gone downhill since it lost the services of Emily Lakdawalla, a brilliant science writer with a passion for getting things right.

[Foggy]

Wow, I would have thought that NASA was a credible source of information. Thanks for the additional information, I have bookmarked that Planetary Society page, it has a ton of cool graphics to go along with the detailed information. Great website.

[RTH10260]

NASA Mars Rover Sent Most Clear Evidence Footage! Perseverance and Curiosity' Rover Mars In 4K

Practical Planet
3 Jun 2024

NASA Mars Rover Sent Most Clear Evidence Footage! Perseverance and Curiosity' Rover Mars In 4K

Hello Everyone: In this super interesting video Enjoy NASA MARS Rover Sent Shocking Stunning footage of Mars Life! The 360 degree view was acquired by the curiosity Mars rover that you can watch in 4K video.
The 360° panoramic view is shown in this video in 3 parts. At the last part of the video you can see the most clear evidence of water and waves that flowed on Mars in ancient past.

And watch on this channel Curiosity's 360° Panoram images and latest photos of Mars sent by NASA'S Perseverance Rover acquired on latest sol and footage from various Mars missions.

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[Foggy]

That's Arrakis.

[bill_g]

The horizontal striations suggest a very strong erosion event - either wind or water. It scoured the surface.

[pipistrelle]

Is that Utah?

[RTH10260]

Is that Utah?

Pssst - please do not leak where the first human Mars mission will be filmed