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A massive volcano has been hiding in plain sight on Mars, says new research. Not only is its sheer size noteworthy, but the team believes it might also harbor glacial ice that could be critical for further exploration and Martian settlements.Continue R… Continue reading Newly found monster Martian volcano might be hiding an icy secret
Data from ESA’s Mars Express indicates that there may be subterranean ice deposits at the Martian equator that are up to 2.3 miles (3.7 km) thick. With enough water to fill the Red Sea, this could be a tremendous resource for future Mars colonies.Conti… Continue reading Seas of water ice may sit underground at Mars equator
One of the news items that generated the most chatter among Hackaday editors this week was that ESA’s Mars Express mission is receiving a software update. And they’re updating the …read more Continue reading Windows 98 For Spaceships? Not quite!
Recent studies reported the discovery of lakes of liquid water below the polar ice caps on Mars, but others later refuted the find. Fueling the debate are two new independent studies, which have reached opposite conclusions.Continue ReadingCategory: Sp… Continue reading Two new studies join debate over presence of liquid water lake on Mars
By conducting “flybys” of Phobos when it wasn’t actually there, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter provided researchers with a controlled experiment to learn more about the mysterious, intermittent interaction between the Martian moon and solar winds.Continue … Continue reading “Fake flybys” move scientists closer to solving Martian moon mystery
Mission extensions for interplanetary robot explorers are usually continuations of their primary mission. But sometimes the hardware already on board are put to novel uses. European Space Agency has started …read more Continue reading Two Mars Orbiters Chatted for Atmospheric Science
A few years ago astronomers announced the incredible discovery of lakes of liquid water on Mars, buried beneath the ice cap at the south pole. But sadly, a trio of new papers refutes the claim, with new experiments suggesting that the “water” signal wa… Continue reading Liquid water “lakes” on Mars may just be frozen clay, say new studies
By studying the logs of computer malfunctions caused by high-energy particles striking their circuitry, ESA scientists have used “housekeeping” data from the Rosetta and Mars Express deep-space probes to shed new light on cosmic rays in the solar syste… Continue reading ESA uses spacecraft “housekeeping” data to measure cosmic rays
This time I promise I only have a couple of stories from Elon Musk’s company. SpaceX’s latest Starship test launch ended in another explosion, proving that space hardware remains hard …read more Continue reading Spacing Out: StarShip Explodes (Again), Passenger Space Flight, Space Bugs, Astronaut Bone, and Martian Water
ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of more liquid water beneath the ice cap in the south polar region of Mars. Based on data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) radar instrument, researchers found thr… Continue reading Mars Express finds more subsurface ponds of liquid water on Mars