PLANET MARS

Join NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers and get a sneak peek of the upcoming InSight Mars mission, the first to focus on examining the deep interior of Mars. Launching in May 2018, this lander will be the very first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. The Exploratorium will host the InSight Roadshow with a half-scale model of the lander and an array of instruments. InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single lander on Mars. InSight is more than a Mars mission; it’s a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental questions of planetary and solar system science: what are the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system, including Earth, more than four billion years ago? By using sophisticated geophysical instruments, InSight will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars, detecting the fingerprints of the processes of terrestrial planet formation, as well as measuring the planet's “vital signs”: its "pulse" (seismology), "temperature" (heat flow probe), and "reflexes" (precision tracking).

Our own Aliza Pearl gets up close and personal with the new Mars Lander that will tell us what's inside the red planet on this Nerdist News Edition! Subscribe for more Nerdist News: http://nerdi.st/subscribe Watch more Nerdist News: http://bit.ly/1qvVVhV Follow Us: Facebook https://facebook.com/nerdist Twitter https://twitter.com/Nerdist Instagram https://instagram.com/nerdist/ Nerdist News https://twitter.com/NerdistNews Jessica Chobot https://twitter.com/JessicaChobot Dan Casey https://twitter.com/dancasey Kyle Hill https://twitter.com/sci_phile

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We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we are excited to welcome Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist at The Planetary Society, back to the Weekly Space Hangout. On May 14th, Emily's new book, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job," will be released. It in, Emily describes the engineering that went into each instrument and piece of machinery incorporated into Curiosity's systems. You can learn more about the book and Emily's planned followup book on her blog here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0831-book-update.html

Bright ripples line the topography in this region, formed within a past climate. Dark dunes and sand streaks (composed of basaltic sand) have moved and filled lower areas, pushed by more recent winds from the top towards the bottom of this image. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_022250_2065

Engineers are developing swarms of robotic 'bees' that can hover above the surface of Mars. The robot bees would collect data and communicate with a mobile exploration base. NASA commissioned a team at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. They’re working in conjunction with a team of Japanese scientists to develop the flying, micro-sized robots. The Marsbees would be launched by a rover. Inspired by insects, the robot 'bees' would have bodies shaped like bumblebees, with wing structures like cicadas. While the Marsbees are promising, they're still years away from being deployed on research missions. http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-mars-robot-drone-bees-2018-4 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Tech using http://wochit.com

Gullies on Martian sand dunes, like these in Matara Crater, have been very active, with many flows in the last ten years. The flows typically occur when seasonal frost is present. Here, we see frost in and around two gullies, which have both been active before. There are no fresh flows so far this year, but HiRISE will keep watching! (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_054026_1300

NASA's next mission to Mars is weeks away from its May 2018 launch. InSight is more than a Mars mission. Its team members hope to unlock the mysteries of the formation and evolution of rocky planets, including Earth. For more about the mission, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight

Are there earthquakes on Mars? Or rather, “marsquakes?" Quakes on Earth happen many times a day, largely due to continental plates shifting as they float on the mantle below. That’s called “plate tectonics.” Mars doesn’t seem to have plate tectonics, but other things can make the ground shake too, like: • cracking caused by contraction from cooling; • magma moving and creating pressure deep underground; • or even meteorite impacts. Quakes of any kind send seismic waves around and through the planet. Scientists can study how those waves bounce off layers deep underground, to help understand what a planet’s interior is like. NASA’s InSight lander carries a super-sensitive instrument to measure marsquakes, and could detect dozens of them during its mission. Each one can tell us a lot about what’s going on inside that mysterious red planet – and maybe, about how all the rocky planets came to be.

This scene is located within a large impact crater to the west of Kaiser Crater. Both are located in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (252 km above the surface and the enhanced color scene is less than 1 km top to bottom and north is to the right.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_050559_1300

Feb. 28, 2018 Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory For five years, Curiosity has explored Gale Crater, one of the most intriguing locations on Mars. In this richly illustrated talk, the Project Scientist discussed what the rover is capable of and the many things it has discovered on the red planet.

A new theory suggests the oceans of Mars formed earlier than often suggested and were given a development boost by the Red Planet’s most massive volcano, Tharsis.

Are the ridges fluvial sedimentary rock bodies and is there layering within the pits? NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (328 km above the surface. Enhanced color is less than 1 km top to bottom and north is to the right.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_050427_2200

Watch the talented Reggie Watts perform at the Exploratorium August 9th, 2012. Reggie was at the Exploratorium for an Osher Fellowship, and he graciously joined us at the end of a live webcast on Mars to share a little of his own feelings about the red planet!

It's not the happiest subject, but when someone dies in space, or on another planet, what will happen to the body? Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.popsci.com/what-happens-to-your-body-when-you-die-in-space http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/04/death_in_space_the_ethics_of_dealing_with_astronauts_bodies.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167701295000429 https://www3.nd.edu/~asimonet/PUBLICATIONS/Andrushko_et_al_2010_JAS.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313540500610X http://utminers.utep.edu/rwebb/html/dna_repair.html https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=llullaillaco+elevation https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=el+tatio+elevation http://www.almaobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/alma_observatory_book.pdf Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Greenhouse.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2015-03-09Bagmati_River,_Pashupatinath,_Nepal_%E3%83%90%E3%82%B0%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E5%B7%9D%E3%81%A8%E3%83%91%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%91%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E7%81%AB%E8%91%AC%E5%A0%B4DSCF6170%E2%98%86%E5%BD%A1.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atacama_map.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atacama.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_Comes_to_the_Atacama_Desert.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_replica_of_the_plomo_mummy_at_the_Museo_Nacional_de_Historia_Natural_in_Sangtiago_Chile_2009_May_24.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crackling_with_Solar_Flares_Flare_zoom_in.jpg

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NASA's InSight spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final preparations for launch. InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet's interior by listening for marsquakes and measuring its heat output. It will be the first planetary spacecraft to launch from this west coast launch facility. The launch period for InSight opens May 5, 2018 and continues through June 8, 2018. For more about the mission, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight .

How do these ridges stand in positive relief after billions of years of erosion? (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_053752_1540

Some of the ground has parallel dark and light stripes and within those dark stripes are piles of boulders at regular intervals. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_053924_2550

Rovers like Curiosity search for life on Mars using rock and soil samples, but why don't they examine liquid or frozen water? Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلط الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PD_8020_007G_&page_name=main&search_term=contamination https://www.nap.edu/read/11381/chapter/3 https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about-categories/ https://www.cbtnuggets.com/blog/2016/10/bytes-and-bacteria-exposing-the-germs-on-your-technology/ https://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/scieng_plantary.cfm http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/ethics/documents/environment/COSPAR%20Planetary%20Protection%20Policy.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20130010386.pdf https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/file_download/47/VikingMicrobiologicalAssayPlan.pdf Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martian_north_polar_cap.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viking_Oven.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA19808-MarsCuriosityRover-AeolisMons-BuckskinRock-20150805.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarsCuriosityRover-Drilling-01.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viking_Lander_Model.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21635-Mars2020Rover-ArtistConcept-20170523.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InSight_Lander_Transparent.png

Orbital ATK’s vision for the next step toward human space missions to Mars employs our flight-proven Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft as a human habitat in cislunar space, the region between the Moon and Earth. In the early 2020s we would launch the initial habitat on NASA’s SLS rocket. Featuring a modular design, the habitat would serve both as a destination for crewed missions and as an unmanned testbed to prove-out the technologies needed for long-duration human space missions. The habitat is also envisioned as a base for lunar missions by international partners or commercial ventures. With additional habitation and propulsion modules, the habitat could be outfitted for a Mars pathfinder mission.

Alluvial fans on Mars are thought to be ancient and record past episodes of flowing water. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://uahirise.org/ESP_054117_1585

A study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes microbes found in Chile's Atacama Desert.

We could have been on Mars 30 years ago. At the peak of the Apollo era in the early '70s, NASA was already planning its next step into the unknown. Its plans included building multiple space stations, continued trips to the Moon, and the first crewed mission to Mars by the 1980s. Can you imagine watching astronauts walk on Mars the same time the walkmen came out? But NASA never sent humans to Mars in the '80s. And here we are 30 years later, still dreaming of the possibility. But the reason isn't necessarily a matter of technology or innovation. It actually comes down to politics. As a government agency, NASA's goals are determined by the Executive Branch. Since its inception, NASA has served under 12 presidents. And it was clear near the start that not every president would support NASA equally. By the end of Nixon's administration in 1974, NASA's budget had plummeted from 4% of the federal budget to less than 1%. Fully-funded Apollo missions 18 and 19 were abandoned along with Apollo 20. At the same time, Nixon pulled NASA's focus away from the Moon and Mars and instead toward low-Earth orbit. His parting gift was to sign into effect what would eventually become NASA's Space Shuttle program. Peter Diamandis: "So what's happened throughout all of space history after the Apollo program was over was to start, stop, start, stop, cancel. President comes in like Bush comes in to go to the Moon, back to Mars and next president comes in and cancels that. The agency is unable to sustain consistent funding to do anything." It wasn't until the Space Shuttle Program was nearing retirement that a crewed mission to Mars was finally considered and funded by a US president. George W. Bush, in 2004, announced: "We will give NASA new focus and vision for future exploration. We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe to gain a new foothold on the Moon." As a result, NASA's Constellation Program was born. Never heard of it? That's because it was canceled a few years later. It aimed to send a crewed mission to the Moon in 2020 and land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s. By the time Obama was sworn in, the Constellation Program was behind schedule and over budget. One year later, Obama canceled 100% of the program's funding. "All that has to change. And with the strategy, I'm outlining today it will." -Barack Obama in 2010. Obama shifted NASA's focus from sending people to the Moon and Mars to, ultimately, just Mars. In the process, he asked Congress to increase NASA's budget by $6 billion over the next 5 years. As a result, NASA launched its "Journey to Mars" initiative in 2010, with the goal to send humans into orbit around Mars by the early 2030s. And, until recently, NASA was on track, more or less. Then, this happened. “President Trump has launched the National Space Council and at the council’s inaugural meeting in October, we unanimously approved a recommendation to instruct NASA to return American astronauts to the moon and from there to lay a foundation for a mission to Mars.” -Mike Pence in 2017 Oddly enough, the space policy under Trump and Obama look nearly identical, save for 63 words. In those 63 words, Trump's administration has shifted the focus once again to a Moon-first, Mars-later initiative.  NASA isn't new to this. It's learned to recycle old projects to fit new missions. For instance, the Orion capsule was first developed for Constellation and has since been redesigned for the Journey to Mars. But even that can't prevent the inevitable changes NASA programs now face under the new president. "We're also going to realign the organizational structure to best meet this new exploration focus. I've asked Stephen Jurczyk the current head of space exploration to lead and effort to design a new organizational approach." -Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr. in 2018 As NASA pushes on, a new possibility has grown on the horizon. Privately-owned space companies like SpaceX also has its sights set on the red planet. Diamandis: "The scientists and engineers at NASA are amazing and they've done extraordinary things. But they're risk aversion...That doesn't allow us to do new and novel things that are on the edge. Doing anything big and bold in space is hard and it's risky. So, it's entrepreneurs taking the risks these days, willing to put everything on the line." The race for Mars is on. While NASA has closely partnered with SpaceX and other privately-owned space companies in recent years, ultimately, NASA may not be the ones who write the next chapter in human space exploration. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/

Mars’ composition and properties were influenced by where and how it formed. In this MAVEN outreach webinar from February 28, 2018, Dr. Katherine Kretke of the Southwest Research Institute discusses planetary formation and migration and how Mars is proving to be a crucial piece of evidence as we try to understand how and where our planets formed. More resources related to this and other MAVEN outreach webinars can be found here: https://bit.ly/MAVENOW.

Barlow Crater is in the mid latitudes of Mars, to the northwest of the Hellas impact basin. It is *not* named after Mr. Barlow in "Salem's Lot." NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (256 km above the surface; scene is less than 1 km top to bottom and north is to the right.) https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_013053_1660

NASA's Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays. For info about all of NASA's Mars missions, visit https://mars.nasa.gov .

Original air date: Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0300 UTC) Dig deep into the workings of Earth’s next trip to the Red Planet. InSight, scheduled to launch in May, 2018, will be the first NASA mission to observe the deep interior of Mars and learn about the history and evolution of rocky planets. See the instruments InSight will bring to Mars, including the first seismometer ever taken to the surface of another planet. For more info on InSight, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight Speaker: Troy Lee Hudson Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Mars Odyssey orbiter's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera captured imagery of the moons on Feb. 15, 2018. Credit: Space.com / imagery courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/SSI / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

We know what "The Red Planet" looks like from the outside -- but what's going on under the surface of Mars? Find out more in the 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

These light-toned mounds generally contain sulfates, which are salts of sulfuric acid that form when water is evaporating. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://uahirise.org/ESP_016712_1760

Set up a free Brilliant account at http://www.brilliant.org/answerswithjoe/ And the first 295 to sign up for a premium account get 20% off every month! The Mars Curiosity Rover is one of the most successful planetary missions of all time. Here's how NASA plans to follow that up - the Mars 2020 Rover Here's Fraser's video! https://youtu.be/YxIPNXF6Kxc Visit Fraser Cain's channel - and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/user/universetoday Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/ Veritasium on Mars 2020 https://youtu.be/iZCRFRgSgas Mission video https://youtu.be/YokdMmod0-U TRANSCRIPT: Science Objective A: Explore once potentially-habitable areas Science Objective B: Seek bio signatures Science Objective C: Sample Caching Science Objective D: Demonstrate in-situ resource utilization. And here are the instruments that will make that possible. It contains 2 cameras on the probe’s mast, one called Mastcam-Z, which is the main “eye” for the rover. It can take 360 degree panoramic 3D views with an advanced zoom that can see something the size of a housefly from the distance of a soccer field. And the second camera is called SuperCam. This can actually do a spectrographic analysis of a rock’s chemical makeup from over 20 feet away by burning a hole in the rock as small as the point of a pencil. This was developed in conjunction with a team from France. PIXL, or Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry will examine rock and soil samples for signs of ancient microbial life and can take extremely close up images of soil samples down to the size of a grain of salt. MEDA, the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer is a contribution from a team in Spain, it’s a tiny weather lab that measures wind speed, temperature and humidity and also gathers data about dust particles in the Martian atmosphere. RIMFAX, the Radar Imager for Mars Subsurface Experiment from Norway is basically like a sonogram that see tens of meters below the ground and detect elements down to the centimeter. This will help find underground water and ice on Mars. The aptly named SHERLOC, or Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals is a big sciency way of saying it looks for signs of ancient life with UV light, much like forensic investigators at crime scenes. Hence, Sherlock. But SHERLOC will carry a couple of interesting things with it, one is a Mars meteorite for calibration purposes. There’s a handful of meteorites found here on Earth that we know were once a part of Mars that were blasted away in an asteroid impact, then travelled through the solar system and eventually landed on Earth. SHERLOC is going to carry a piece of one of those meteorites to use to calibrate its laser on the Martian surface, which means this will be the first time a piece of martian rock will be returned to Mars. The other thing is it will be carrying samples of materials that may be used to make Martian spacesuits, to see how well they fare in the Martian environment. And last but definitely not least is MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment. This is the module that will be testing in situ resource utilization techniques in the hopes of turning the CO2 in the martian atmosphere into oxygen, just like a tree. The rover will also contain a special microphone, giving us the first sound recordings from the surface of Mars.

See Joe's video here: https://youtu.be/0M7VvnaoIVY Subscribe to Joe's Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2YHgc363EdcusLIBbgxzg All Hail Curiosity! Consider the fact that right now, there’s an SUV-sized rover crawling around the surface of Mars, zapping rocks with its laser, scooping and sampling material, and generally giving us the best view we’ve ever seen from the surface of the Red Planet. NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been on the surface of Mars since 2012, following the story of water. When did it first show up on Mars, and was it there long enough to support the biology of life? In its 5 years and counting of exploration, Curiosity has pushed our understanding of the Red Planet forward, and paved the way for the next generation of gigantic, nuclear powered rovers headed to Mars to search for life itself. Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: https://www.universetoday.com/newsletter Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universetoday Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+universetoday/ Instagram - http://instagram.com/universetoday Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / [email protected] Karla Thompson - @karlaii / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEItkORQYd4Wf0TpgYI_1fw Chad Weber - [email protected] Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 References: https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasas-opportunity-mars-rover-finishes-marathon-clocks-in-at-just-over-11-years/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-290 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/timeline/prelaunch/landingsiteselection/aboutgalecrater/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mount-sharp-photobombs-mars-curiosity-rover/ https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/whereistherovernow/?ImageID=9084 https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/science/results/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4413 https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/16dec_methanespike https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1393

While it certainly hasn't gone anywhere, a new image of the Phoenix lander shows us how much change has occurred in five Mars years. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Enhanced color images are 1 km across.) https://uahirise.org/ESP_053451_2485

Researchers using ground-based observatories have detected increased concentrations of both methane and water vapor in the Martian atmosphere during the northern hemisphere summer. Credit: NASA

One upside of recognizing and noting this ice is that future astronauts will have plenty of drinking water. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://uahirise.org/ESP_053642_2225

Jessi and Squeaks love pretending to be space explorers, visiting far-away planets! Did you know that, right now, there are scientists working on ways to send people to other planets in real life? And where better to start than our closest neighbor, Mars?! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow SOURCES: https://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/astro/documentaries/geologists-on-mars/why-go-to-mars/ https://futurism.com/watch-bill-nye-on-why-we-should-go-to-mars/ https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/141602045589/fun-facts-about-mars http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/ice-cliffs-spotted-mars https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-clean-water-ice-just-below-mars-surface/ http://www.businessinsider.com/5-undeniable-reasons-why-humans-should-go-to-mars-2015-4 https://www.wired.com/2015/09/nasa-salty-liquid-water-on-mars/ https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/27/getting-to-and-living-on-mars-will-be-hell-on-your-body/ https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-releases-plan-outlining-next-steps-in-the-journey-to-mars https://www.space.com/38955-nasa-2020-mars-rover-curiosity.html http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/15/health/mars-2020-rover-announcement/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/missions/index-past.html https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/rover/wheelslegs/ http://www.techradar.com/news/this-is-how-well-get-to-mars https://futurism.com/its-official-humans-are-going-to-mars-nasa-has-unveiled-their-mission/ https://www.mars-one.com/ http://www.wired.co.uk/article/getting-to-mars

One way to help us live on Mars would be to terraform the planet. Some scientists think we might be able to do that by giving it a new magnetic field! Host: Caitlin Hofmeister ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلط الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://livestream.com/viewnow/vision2050/videos/150701155 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/V2050/pdf/8250.pdf https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/05/nasa-finds-evidence-of-a-vast-ancient-ocean-on-mars http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/world/climate-change-geoengineering/index.html http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/solar-shield-could-save-us-climate-change-its-sudden-collapse-would-doom-planet ---------- Images: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-protect-astronauts-from-space-radiation-on-mars https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140511.html https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/21360/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/chasma-boreale-and-the-north-polar-ice-cap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#/media/File:Magnetic_shield_on_L1_orbit_around_Mars.png https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mms-in-space-concept https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mms-in-space-concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade#/media/File:Space_lens.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#/media/File:MarsTransitionV.jpg

They were developed more than 40 years ago and then almost forgotten but now Nuclear Rockets are set to make a comeback and possibly provide the fastest way to get around our solar system to date. Here look at their history and how they could be used in the next decade or so. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsors: Symon Hamer, Florian Hesse, Felix Friese, Martel DuVigneaud, Bernt-Olov Hellstram, Tayar Jundi, Johan Rombaut, Tobias Pettersson, Kevin Hinnen, Mitchel J. Mullin II, Lucius Kwok, Hunter Schwisow, Pyloric, Seb Stoodley, Peter Cote, Cody Belichesky, Mogoreanu Daniel, Douglas Gustafson, Marcus Chiado, Jorn Magnus Karlsen This episodes shirt was the Plectrum Hawaiian Shirt by Madcap England & available from https://www.atomretro.com/madcap_england Get 10% discount with the code DROID10 Presented by Paul Shillito Written and researched by Andy Munzer Additional material by Paul Shillito Footage and Images:NASA, Roscosmos, SpaceX, Fragomatik https://www.youtube.com/user/fragomatik/, Mark Wade http://www.astronautix.com Music Mike G. Mullen, BMI - www.positrosmic.com Featuring on Guitar James Zota Baker - www.jameszotabaker.com Azimuth Mix 002 with Guitar: https://soundcloud.com/synchro505/azimuth-mix-002-with-guitar

Laura Kerber from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gives a captivating presentation about the challenges that humans will face if we settle on Mars. Presentation was given at the Tomorrow Global Summit in October 2017. More info at: https://hello-tomorrow.org/home

This crater may have formed in a region rich in ground water, which flowed down its wall and eroded numerous gullies in the process. (Audio: www.tregibbs.com. Black and white images are 5 km across; enhanced color images are 1 km.) https://uahirise.org/ESP_021741_1415

When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb)---a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel--Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost. Falcon Heavy's first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft. Following liftoff, the two side boosters separate from the center core and return to landing sites for future reuse. The center core, traveling further and faster than the side boosters, also returns for reuse, but lands on a drone ship located in the Atlantic Ocean. At max velocity the Roadster will travel 11 km/s (7mi/s) and travel 400 million km (250 million mi) from Earth.

This impact crater looks amusingly like a tadpole because of the valley that was carved by water that used to fill it. When the water level inside the crater increased, it breached the crater wall, flowed outward and formed a valley. Sometimes, the water may flow in the opposite direction, like from a channel into a crater. It is often difficult to differentiate between inlet and outlet channels, but water always flows downhill. In this particular case, we can infer that water is flowing outward because we have the necessary terrain-height information. When studying these images in detail, scientists can gain a better understanding of the strength of the flooding water that carved the channels, and better understand the history of water activity in this region of Mars. Written by: M. Ramy El-Maarry (audio: Tre Gibbs) (5 February 2018) Credit: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Arizona

Using images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover, scientists from JPL-Caltech created a panoramic view of Gale Crater. The scene from "Vera Rubin Ridge" looks back over the journey so far, including buttes, dunes and other features along the route. Footage Courtesy: NASA / JPL-Caltech Video edited by : Go To Space Music: Better Days - Bensound https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/t_qYQkGjuVI Outro Music: HeroicMonk - Can't Kill Me https://soundcloud.com/heroicmonk * YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/GotospaceOrg * Twitter : https://twitter.com/GoToSpace_GTS * Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/GoToSpace/ * Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+GotospaceOrg

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We explore the history and future of missions to Mars Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ You can see part 1 here: https://youtu.be/Pv7aigOzQKo For years following the Moon landings it seemed liked Mars would be our next step and sooner than later, but the costs and risks discouraged interest for around a decade after that. We pick up from part 1 when renewed interest arose and examine many of the more recent plans and what options they give us for manned missions to the Red Planet in the next decade. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Support the Channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur To help us grow your SFIA community, follow https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. Visit the sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/mars-from-science-fiction-to-science-fact Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: https://www.artstation.com/artist/jakub_grygier Script Editing Gregory Leal Matthew Acker Sigmund Kopperud Graphics Team: Edward Nardella Jeremy Jozwik Jarred Eagley Justin Dixon Jeremy Jozwik Katie Byrne Kris Holland/Mafic Studios: http://www.maficstudios.com Luuk Warringa Misho Yordanov Murat Mamkegh Nick Talmers Nieuwoudt Pierre Demet Sergio Botero Stefan Blandin Music Supervisor Luca De Rosa Music composed & performed by: Miguel Johnson, "The Alien Within" (instrumental feat. Tom Cook) "Re-Genesis" "A Planet Found" "Preparing for War II" "Deep Space" "Pleiades Sonata" "Battle of 3303" "Time for War" "VIctory" (featuring Jeff Murray) https://soundcloud.com/migueljohnsonmjmusic

https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Part 2 is here on Isaac Arthurs channel: https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ Mars isn't the recent obsession that you might think if you listen to Elon Musk and NASA, in fact, NASA had solid plans to go by 1982 using plans drawn up by Werner Von Braun. In this collaboration with Isaac Arthurs SFIA channel, we look at the Mars missions that were planned for the past and those which are proposed for the future. To see Part 2 go to https://youtu.be/S0dqd72ALkQ This video is sponsored by https://brilliant.org/curiousdroid Presented by Paul Shillito Written and Researched by Paul Shillito Images and Footage NASA, www.masch-artdesign.com Mark Wade www.astronautix.com Chris P. Bacon/KS, Isaac Arthur SFIA Music by Sergey Cheremisinov http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/Hidden_Crystal/Sergey_Cheremisinov_-_Hidden_Crystal_-_04_New_Worlds http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/Forgotten_Stars/Sergey_Cheremisinov_-_Forgotten_Stars_-_06_Sirius http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/White_Atlantis/Sergey_Cheremisinov_-_White_Atlantis_-_02_Night_Snowfall Lombus: Timeslip Brandon Liew: Floating through space

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. Andrzej Stewart currently works in Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. However, from 2015-2016, Andrzej acted as the Chief Engineering Officer during the year-long Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (Hi-SEAS) IV Mars simulation mission on Mauna Loa. Prior to that he participated in NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) simulation where he acted as the flight engineer. Aside from his mission-simulation participation, Andrzej has extensive design and engineering experience within the space program having worked on projects such as Spitzer, NASA's Deep Space Network, and the Orion spacecraft. You can read about Andrzej's time "on Mars" and learn more about him by visiting his blog, Surfing with the Aliens, here: https://hiseasandrzej.wordpress.com

An exploration of the future collisions of the moons of Uranus and possibility that Phobos may someday slam into Mars. https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Papers: "Weighing Uranus' moon Cressida with the η ring", Chancia et al, 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07566 Music Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

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