Tag: mars

March 12, 2018 at 10:05 am

SpaceX Releases Official Falcon Heavy and Starman Launch Video

SpaceX Releases Official Falcon Heavy and Starman Launch Video

One guess what the music soundtrack was

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February 7, 2018 at 12:52 pm

SpaceX Just Launched the World’s Most Powerful Rocket and Sent a Tesla to Mars

SpaceX Just Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket and Sent a Tesla to Mars

The Tesla’s radio is also playing a David Bowie soundtrack on loop

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June 23, 2017 at 11:53 am

Picture of the Day: The Pale Blue Dot (Mars Edition)

Picture of the Day: The Pale Blue Dot (Mars Edition)

Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter catches a view of the Curiosity rover on Mars’ surface

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January 3, 2017 at 10:56 am

Picture of the Day: An Avalanche on Mars as It was Occurring

Picture of the Day: An Avalanche on Mars as It was Occurring

In an incredible feat of technology and timing, the HiRISE camera captures an avalanche from above as it was occurring

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December 22, 2016 at 10:41 am

Behind the Scenes With Elon Musk When SpaceX Made its Historic Rocket Landing

Behind the Scenes With Elon Musk When SpaceX Made its Historic Rocket Landing

“Creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars would be the greatest adventure ever” – Elon Musk

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September 28, 2016 at 11:19 am

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

“The reason I am personally accruing assets is to fund this. I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary” – Elon Musk

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August 17, 2016 at 6:01 pm

Every Extraterrestrial Body We Have Landed On and Photographed

Every Extraterrestrial Body We Have Landed On and Photographed

Views from the final frontier

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June 20, 2016 at 11:05 am

Picture of the Day: Frosted Sand Dunes on Mars

Picture of the Day: Frosted Sand Dunes on Mars

Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between the dunes. It is late winter in the southern hemisphere of Mars, and these dunes are just getting enough sunlight to start defrosting their seasonal cover of carbon dioxide. Spots form where pressurized carbon dioxide gas escapes to the surface

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September 28, 2015 at 4:26 pm

Picture of the Day: Water on Mars

Picture of the Day: Water on Mars

An imaging spectrometer on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes of the Red Planet.

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June 14, 2015 at 10:46 pm

Picture of the Day: Fresh Crater on Mars

Picture of the Day: Fresh Crater on Mars

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” impact crater in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars on March 30, 2015.

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