Finally, the proof of the existence of a lake of liquid water under the surface of Mars will put the word “end” to a project that I have repeatedly defined as insulting and wicked, that is the human colonization of Mars!Elon Musk and Robert Zubrin, put it away and look for other “stories” to tell to your naive proselytes, you have only made a big hole in the water!!! This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

Several videos to present the “behind the scenes” of the InSight mission, including: Troy Hudson ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubrbfpz_2pI Marleen Sundgaard ==> https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkEUywAiexM Ravi Prakash ==> https://youtube.com/watch?v=_9A_xHPOQCU This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

Procedures begin to recover the functionality of Opportunity, now in hibernation for more than six weeks… This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

With this ugly fall of style, Bruce Campbell of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and member of the team assigned to the SHARAD instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, commented on the Italian discovery of the lake on Mars released yesterday. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

This research (announced yesterday by the “historic” ASI press conference) is causing an uproar, especially at NASA where there is already a chorus of “skeptics” who demand more evidence … …or maybe they are a bit burned by the fact that they were not the ones to make this discovery!As a matter of fact, not long ago, NASA tried to reinterpret old radar surveys of subsurface ice deposits as sand deposits!The same sand that would produce the seasonal appearance of RSLs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_flows_on_warm_Martian_slopes) In the next days there will be a nice tug of war between ESA and NAZA! 😉 This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

A team of scientists led by Roberto Orosei of the National Institute of Astrophysics has discovered a basin of liquid, brackish water in the depths of Mars’ South Pole. It is the first confirmed underground lake on the Red Planet. The result, obtained with Esa’s Mars Express probe, will be published tomorrow on Science…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

Hydrogen atoms emitted by the Sun are deprived of their electron by the ionosphere of Mars, thus giving rise to a shower of protons able to generate a particular type of red aurora!For a change… This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

On July 25 at 16.00 will be held at the Italian Space Agency (ASI) the press conference to present an important scientific discovery concerning Mars, made by an all-Italian team led by the National Institute of Astrophysics. The news will be published in the scientific journal Science. The discovery was made possible thanks to the use of the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) instrument, an Italian radar installed on board the European probe Mars Express that was developed under the control of the Italian Space Agency, on an original project by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in collaboration with NASA and realized by Thales Alenia Space Italia. The conference will be attended by Roberto Orosei, researcher of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and scientific responsible of the MARSIS radar, Enrico Flamini, Professor of Planetology at the University of Chieti-Pescara and Project Manager of the MARSIS experiment for the Italian Space Agency, and Professor of the University of Roma Tre Elena Pettinelli, co-investigator of MARSIS. The event will be streamed on ASITV www.asitv.it ) and relaunched by the journal Science, so the conference will be held entirely in English…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

Despite a somewhat poor visibility, it seems that the first surface details of Mars are beginning to reappear, an indication that the atmosphere is becoming transparent again and therefore the global storm is ending.Those who wanted to take advantage of this opposition to see Mars through a telescope should not lose hope…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.