Your browser does not support HTML video. This video shows the minimum and maximum temperature trends over the course of an entire Martian year, as well as the areas where the temperature reaches or exceeds the water thawing point, which is 273 K (0° C).The data shown were obtained through the online interface of the “Mars Climate Database v5.3: The Web Interface” http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/mcd_python/ This post… Read More »Mars Surface Temperatures
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In wishing everyone happy holidays, I have chosen this wonderful photo of the first Martian snowfall taken by the Vikng 2 lander.I remember when, still a child, I heard on the news the amazing news of the first snowfall shot on another world: Mars!I was extremely impressed by that event and probably stimulated in me a preferential interest for this planet…About six years ago I… Read More »Happy Holidays!
On December 19, NASA’s InSight lander placed the seismometer 1,636 meters from the lander itself thanks to its robotic arm.In this image taken at 17:59:09 LMST by the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) you can see the seismometer just resting on the ground.To show colors more similar to what the human eye would see, I subjected the image to white balance. Balanced image: https://i.ibb.co/v1GnBp5/In-Sight-Sol0022.jpg Original image:… Read More »InSight has deposited its first instrument on the Martian surface
Thanks to five consecutive passes, ESA has composed this beautiful reconstruction of the Martian crater Korolev located at 73° north latitude.This 82-kilometer-wide crater is almost always filled with snow as its bottom acts as a cold trap… Original image: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_of_Korolev_crater Related Article: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_gets_festive_A_winter_wonderland_on_Mars This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
As InSight prepares to lay its first scientific instrument on Martian soil, mission engineers have already simulated the operation by replicating in the lab the soil adjacent to the lander on Mars…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
The ESA radar has identified it (after “overriding” the data compression software implemented by NASA!) but the NASA radar has not!Here the controversy about the real existence of a lake whose water would remain liquid even if it is estimated that it should be at a temperature of -68 ° C and that, however, we repeat, NASA is not able to identify in turn.You will… Read More »A buried lake on Mars excites and baffles scientists!
Here are the parts of InSight involved in the landing. We can see the heat shield, the lander itself and the parachute.All thanks to HiRISE, the fantastic camera installed on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Full HD image: https://static.uahirise.org/images/2018/details/cut/ESP_058005_1845-labels.jpg HiRISE article: https://www.uahirise.org/releases/insight/hardware/ This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
In perfect agreement with the chronometric precision with which the landing phases took place, InSight (the red dot) missed the center of the predicted ellipse (ellipse in blue) by only about ten kilometers!From the measurements taken on this image the coordinates of the exact landing point are as follows:Latitude: 4° 30′ 6″ N Longitude 135° 37′ 27″ EGiven the scale of the image the margin… Read More »The landing site of the InSight lander
It would seem a yellow, if instead of Martian methane there was a victim, but the great flagship of the European Space Agency has failed to detect the slightest trace of methane in the atmosphere of Mars!The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) should have solved the famous dilemma about the origin of Martian methane, attributed by some to geological causes and by others to biological causes.Unfortunately,… Read More »Methane identified on Mars in 2004 has mysteriously vanished