April 2018
Developing Mars
...). Core asteroid impacts should have enriched an appreciable fraction of preserved martian craters with metal ores, rendering Mars the greatest treasury of accessible rare metals in the solar system. Sacramento Station analogies The business benefits...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... of a field indicates that convection has stopped, or dwindled to a level that is incapable of fuelling the field’s development. In early Mars history its magnetic field vanished, causing the near total loss of the planet’s atmosphere, and scientists...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
...University of Hawaii (HI-SEAS); the European Space Agency (ESA) with Roscosmos (Mars-500); and the Mars Society (Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station and Mars Desert Research Station). But a permanent settlement would be a different matter: Instead...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... station, many see China’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As along with Mars, China is also crafting an exploration mission to study the Jovian system set for launch sometime around 2030...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... under the ground or inside the rocks. And in that case, Sagan wrote, “if there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” As astrobiologist David Grinspoon...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... might ever know, as new geological evidence suggests Mars has a planet-wide system of channels that once...found the first geological evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars.” This evidence comes in the form of channels etched into crater ...
