Methane appears in the Martian atmosphere, usually in the Martian springtime, and pretty quickly disappears.
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Despite decades of study from both Mars orbit and the Martian surface, no one has found fossil evidence of Martian life, not to speak of any artifacts of an ancient Martian civilization.
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The Martian orbiter spotted surface features unlike anything seen before—apparent spillover landscapes known as Martian outflow channels.
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H.G. Wells, in "The War of the Worlds", imagined Martian invaders bringing death to Earth; in "The Martian Chronicles" Ray Bradbury pictured humans living among Martian ghosts seeing Earth destroyed in a nuclear spasm.
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To keep the calendar in harmony with the Martian seasons, Dr. Gangale proposed that even-numbered years have 668 Martian days (except those divisible by 10), and odd-numbered years have 669 Martian days.
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To get home, the crew will fill their ship with fuel manufactured from sunlight, Martian water, and Martian air.
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Planet-wide storms are common on Mars (remember The Martian?), especially when it's summer in the Martian southern hemisphere.
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One, Martian carbonates may preserve a record of one of the most habitable environments on Mars—including, perhaps, ancient Martian microfossils.
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The ship lands on the Martian surface and then we get a glimpse of the astronauts looking out onto the Martian plains.
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The crater is located at the Martian north pole, so it may as well be the imaginary headquarters for the Martian Santa Claus.
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"We count Martian days and Martian years," said John Callas, the project manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project, which directs the Curiosity rover.
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A Martian colony is going to be more complicated than people realize But a Martian colony is going to be more complicated than people realize.
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Oh, well, so I never had ... With "The Martian" I never had an opportunity ... Are we talking about "The Martian" or Artemis on this one?
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Prior to their landing, NASA had successfully put a spacecraft called Mariner 9 in Martian orbit, which provided the first detailed images of the Martian surface.
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Martian Voice Command and Martian NotifierClever analog/digital design but the tiny little horizontal window is just bad at telling you what you want to know.
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Could little Martian bugs be swimming around down there under a mile of ice that keeps the cosmic rays out and keeps the Martian water liquid?
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As featured in The Martian, potatoes are also a good choice, and they've even been grown in simulated Martian soil in experiments in a greenhouse on Earth.
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On Mars, the SuperCam will collect data about how compounds in the Martian atmosphere interact with solar radiation, which could improve scientists' abilities to predict Martian weather.
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Andy Weir's Best Seller 'The Martian' Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover Science teachers are using a new edition of "The Martian" to teach physics, astronomy and chemistry.
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Click here to view original GIFArtist's concept of Martian settlement (Image: NASA)For two years, researchers have been farming a series of crops in Martian and lunar soils.
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The stalwart astronauts of "A Martian Ricoroso," who struggle to survive a bizarre cyclic Martian biosphere while also second-guessing and betraying one another, are an unromanticized example.
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Earlier this year, JPL conducted tests of the helicopter in "a simulated Martian environment" that put the helicopter through temperatures as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit and flew it in a vacuum chamber that simulated Martian air — it was also attached to a "motorized lanyard" to help simulate Martian gravity.
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In "Andy Weir's Best Seller 'The Martian' Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover," Alexandra Alter writes: Apart from the four-letter words, "The Martian" is a science teacher's dream text.
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These maps from the UK's Ordnance Survey of the Martian plains were designed to take the style of our own Earth maps and translate it to some alien, Martian territory.
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In Allen M. Steele's "Martian Blood," a Martian colonist leads an Egyptian-American astrobiology professor on a tour as he works to prove that life on Earth originated on Mars.
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It's my second book, and everybody's going to be comparing it to The Martian, and it's likely that The Martian is going to be the most successful book I ever write.
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These instruments, collectively known as the Auxiliary Payload Subsystem (APSS), collect data each second of every Martian day, or sol (one Martian day is 1003 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds).
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That's what director Scott did in The Martian, a comeback movie of sorts for him (prior to The Martian, he had most recently directed the not-good Exodus: Gods and Kings).
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Similarly, scientists can confirm the origin of Martian meteorites based on their similarity to the chemical composition of Martian surface rocks analyzed by the NASA Viking landers back in the 70's.
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Nevertheless, in 2006 seasonal changes in a pair of Martian craters led astronomers to speculate that small amounts of liquid water might be bubbling briefly to the surface in the Martian summer.
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Once living spaces and life support systems are in place, the EPFL team envisions a six-person human crew voyaging to the planet during the six-month-long Martian northern summer, when sunlight is abundant for solar power production (the Martian calendar has longer seasons than Earth's calendar, because the Martian year lasts 687 Earth days).
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It's fun to know that in addition to battling Martian dust storms and erratic surface features, Watney was also standing on the site of ancient Martian tsunamis that demolished the seashore long ago.
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All the Martians have come to see the First Martian.
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Among them: The Martian, Peanuts and Fantastic Four from Fox.
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Honest Trailers takes on the movie scientists in The Martian.
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They also performed the same analysis with the Martian channels.
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I felt very martian chic having it in my apartment.
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But once our Martian voyagers leave Earth, they'll be exposed.
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It's okay to touch Martian dirt with your bare hands.
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You also don't want to grow plants using Martian soil.
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That will indicate how well heat flows through Martian soil.
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It's pretty scary to follow up something like The Martian.
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The Martian was praised for its high level of realism.
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Do you worry about comparisons to The Martian as well?
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Queda por fuera Ridley Scott, el director de "The Martian".
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Phobos sits inside this point, forever ensnared by Martian gravity.
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Illustration: Cover of Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick.
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This was the analog for Martian gravity in the experiment.
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From space tourism to Martian colonies, these are tomorrow's moonshots.
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Martian mVoice Smart Watches with Amazon Alexa — $69.99 See Details
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I watched "The Martian" in a hotel in Columbia, Missouri.
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The rover has also detected methane in the Martian atmosphere.
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Broadly speaking, there are two possible sources for Martian methane.
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What does this say about the chances of Martian life?
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He has even shared his vision for a Martian government.
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Timing: Right now, scientists have limited predictability of Martian weather.
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The Martian (2015) is available to stream through FX Networks.
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Above, the Martian south pole where the lake was discovered.
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Marvin the Martian is one of the original Looney Tunes.
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And in "The Martian," Matt Damon is stuck on Mars.
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Take a ride with Halil Altındere through his Martian fantasy.
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Manuel Rey Isip, "Martian Quest" (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1940).
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A companion volume for a Martian exploration show opening Oct.
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And in Season Four, Martian society is in deep trouble.
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The Martian was somewhat expected to garner lots of nominations.
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"The InSight lander is close to the Martian equator -- just north of the equator -- so it is experiencing Martian winter," said Don Banfield in a statement, the mission's lead for the lander's meteorological sensors.
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As to details of explanation, any we may adopt will undoubtedly be found, on closer acquaintance, to vary from the actual Martian state of things; for any Martian life must differ markedly from our own.
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It's why my favorite movie of last year was The Martian.
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Martian It's important to remember that, at the nomination stage, Academy
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A Martian gravity map showing the Tharsis volcanoes and surrounding flexure.
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Like make this incredible animation of the Martian surface, for example.
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But if you're hungry for Martian science now, you're in luck.
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And surprisingly powerful Martian winds reliably cleared the panels of dust.
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TGO was successfully inserted into Martian orbit and is working properly.
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A related concern is the fact that Martian soil is toxic.
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Opportunity lasted far longer on the Martian surface than anyone expected.
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That means any methane in the Martian air should quickly disappear.
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Suffice to say this planned Martian vacation has little credibility.1.
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InSight is not the first attempt to measure Martian seismic activity.
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For The Martian, I did tons and tons of Google searches.
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For one thing, Martian air is less dense than Earth's air.
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But it feels wrong to not give something to The Martian.
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Astronaut Mark Watney, Damon's character in the movie, harvested Martian potatoes.
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And, critically, the Martian wind has helped out quite a bit.
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The enigmatic "blueberries" observed by Opportunity rover on the Martian surface.
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This Martian behemoth is the largest volcano in our solar system.
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"I'm not sure what the Martian equivalent to that would be."
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The Martian is a fantastical, daring adventure through the solar system.
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Decades later, Viking helped inspire the instruments on today's Martian rovers.
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No accolades for the Martian please, he just wants to help.
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But the crater isn't just icy because of the Martian winter.
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Water ice cannot persist on this part of the Martian surface.
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The scientific accuracy of "The Martian" is part of its appeal.
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This always got to me reading the Ray Bradbury Martian stories.
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You can follow Jeff Raymond's Real Martian Homestead project on YouTube .
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The Martian may be becoming real sooner than we ever expected.
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You've probably seen the film The Martian—it's not far off.
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Micah: The Martian is like up there in my favorite movies.
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By 2014 "The Martian" debuted on the Times best seller list.
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A European orbiter detected whiffs of methane in the Martian atmosphere.
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InSight has something that other missions to the Martian surface didn't.
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InSight additionally is discovering new details about the complex Martian atmosphere.
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It wasn't easy to see what separated one Martian from another.
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Why "The Martian" author doesn't mix politics with sci-fi 4.
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The Martian won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical.
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"Because the size of wind-drag ripples varies with the density of the atmosphere under which they formed, 'fossil' wind-drag ripples found in Martian sandstones can tell us about the ancient Martian environment," Lapôtre explained.
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The first part of the Avengers: Endgame trailer finds Iron Man drifting in space and running out of sustenance and oxygen, sort of like The Martian if the Martian were a sad and beat-up Tony Stark.
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The Martian home shown in the TV show looks like a red brick igloo and (if it were real) would be made out of Martian dirt and parts of the spaceship that transported the astronauts to Mars.
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In comparison, the budget for the movie "The Martian" was $108 million.
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NASA did not expect the rover to survive through a Martian winter.
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The First Martian wakes up and looks at all the other Martians.
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Each pilgrim, each new Martian, gently taps Opportunity twice and moves on.
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For structure, I studied The Grapes of Wrath and The Martian Chronicles.
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Combined, these results present tantalizing hints of a potentially habitable Martian past.
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It has driven 25 miles across the Martian surface during its operation.
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Most Martian craters, even in cooler regions, don't remain full year-round.
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This new image comes after a big few months of Martian news.
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" As for toppings, The Martian star says, "It's all about the layering.
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Indeed, the gelatinous martian is very clear about what it wants: blood.
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Lockheed manufactured MAVEN, which is currently conducting studies of the Martian atmosphere.
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The natural progression from Martian gravity is, obviously, to take things lunar.
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What's a good gift for a Martian rover who's just turning four?
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Ancient Martian beaches would have been far from ideal for tropical resorts.
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But Artemis is also less intensely focused on science than The Martian.
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The rover will also directly search for signs of ancient Martian life.
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"[The] tops of the Martian volcanoes are a good place to start."
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Often, Martian dunes look more like features we'd expect to see underwater.
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Or put it like this: She's a Martian, they wishin' they equal.
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For would-be space travellers and Martian colonists, this news undoubtedly sucks.
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As yet, Martian concrete has not undergone an actual test on Mars.
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Consequently, this cavi unit contains a historical record of the Martian climate.
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Growing up Muslim in America, Reza Aslan recalls, was like being Martian.
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" Damon laughed so hard, he almost flubbed the introduction to "The Martian.
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Like when The Martian wins for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
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This year, that meant nominating The Martian as a musical or comedy.
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That's when the different philosophies of martian and terrestrial medicine seemed stark.
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This will indicate what the Martian atmosphere is made of, says Svedhem.
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"Approaching the Unknown" can't avoid comparisons with "The Martian" from last fall.
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Opportunity began its 16th year on the Martian surface on January 24.
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In the wake of their destructive force, a Martian mystery was born.
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Lil Wayne's martian sensibilities aren't suited to an era of peak literalism.
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" The Guardian compared the briefly seen Martian to an "olive with cellulitis.
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Entry into the Martian atmosphere is a separate hurdle for Chambers' team.
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A Martian day is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day.
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This effectively also captured material from different points in the Martian timeline.
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In the Martian meteorites, the crust remained much the same over time.
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Last year, they showed earthworms could live, even reproduce, in Martian soil.
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But in the early days of MTV, Mr. Petty was the Martian.
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The image shows the rover's "head" peaking above the dusty martian surface.
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The evolving island can be compared with erosion patterns around Martian volcanoes.
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Opportunity continued trundling across the Martian landscape for more than 28 miles.
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However, scientists didn't understand Martian chemistry and geology like they do today.
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During the summer of 2012, the entire world marveled and watched in awe as NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover survived the treacherous descent through the Martian atmosphere and successfully soft-landed on the Martian surface.
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The ability to do all that "observation-guided sample preparation followed by investigations" would be such a huge breakthrough that the scientific value of going even from zero Martian soil to a little Martian soil is effectively immeasurable.
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The Martian Look, we're not going to start up the whole "Is The Martian a comedy or a drama?" debate again, but we will say that it is a much funnier film than you might expect from the trailer.
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And the means to get a lot of that is by mixing concrete, which is why researchers at Northwestern University's Civil Engineering department have been working on an unusual project: how we might transform Martian dirt into Martian concrete.
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And unfortunately, her The Martian co-star Matt Damon is one of them.
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I had a moment of intense panic in the middle of The Martian.
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Shiny and new, sent from Earth, torn to shreds by the Martian storms.
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Should Martian settlers be allowed to do what they like to the environment?
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At some point in Martian history, crescent-shaped dunes were in the area.
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NASA scientists are maintaining a full-court press on the Martian dust storm.
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He wants to develop technology that helps Earth—and then get Martian spinoffs.
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Meantime, about 373 miles away, Curiosity was continuing to rove the Martian surface.
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This PR move shall forthwith be referred to as the Martian Defense®.
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NASA's MAVEN entered Martian orbit in 2014 and is the agency's newest orbiter.
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These veins are cracks in the Martian rocks that are filled with chemicals.
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If you liked the humor of The Martian, you'll enjoy Girl in Space.
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The Martian surface seen by NASA's Curiosity rover, a successful mission on Mars.
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The Martian was in competition with Joy, Spy, The Big Short and Trainwreck.
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Goodman plays Howard, the guy raving on the Internet about imminent Martian invasions.
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Andy Weir scored an unexpected best-seller with his debut novel The Martian.
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Dark streaks indicative of flowing water on the slopes of a Martian hillside.
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Other times, he likes to do a space thing or play Martian overlord.
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Obviously, more research must be done before we give up on Martian potatopia.
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That means that the rover will hit Martian soil by November 26, 2018.
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Fourteen years later, the rover has traversed about 30 miles of Martian surface.
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The Martian similarly focuses on survival, ingenuity, and a series of escalating challenges.
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It included a gym, operating room, greenhouse, and even a Martian surface simulator.
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But by this stage in Martian history, the climate had become considerably colder.
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The Martian polar ice caps are comprised of water ice and carbon dioxide.
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The water level also aligns with existing evidence of an ancient Martian ocean.
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Click here to view original GIFThe shadow of Phobos darkens the Martian sky.
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And did anybody expect "The Martian" to win for best comedy or musical?
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And we've discovered that Martian wind periodically cleans the dust from the panels.
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"What would the Martian do to find out how cars work?" he says.
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In case you haven't seen The Martian, let's conduct a little thought experiment.
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Would I be seeing the scene on Earth superimposed upon the Martian landscape?
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It also won over Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, and The Revenant.
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The image captured a Martian world shrouded in darkness by the dust storm.
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" Other Fox films with nominations in top categories include "Brooklyn" and "The Martian.
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During the Martian day, cloud particles absorb visible light to warm the atmosphere.
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The cameras will also help scientists observe details in Martian rock and sediment.
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This will be the main ride for passengers traveling to the Martian colony.
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Dr Zahnle has long argued that Curiosity's reports of Martian methane are artefacts.
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Sunrise on Mars Opportunity was built to last 90 sols, or Martian days.
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Of course, this factoid discounted Martian fluctuation and that Manitobans have it harder.
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He talked to Andy Weir, who wrote "The Martian," great book, great movie.
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"The Martian," we should back up a second, that's your first published book?
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The Mars Curiosity rover stumbled upon an iron meteorite in the Martian desert.
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"The Martian" was playing one day, live coverage of short-track speedskating another.
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Yes, in The Martian, the US turned to the Chinese for rocket help.
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You think the Martian colony will save us from the problems of Earth?
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It wouldn't be the Martian Death Flu without that kind of punch line.
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Below you'll find a recap of some of this year's notable Martian developments.
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Dr. Guinan is not the first to try growing plants in Martian soil.
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Update: We updated the last question/response to include the Martian Manhunter episode.
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"It's like a Martian coming down to a political planet," Ms. Peterson said.
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"I hope you like Artemis but Artemis is not The Martian," Weir explains.
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Neither China, Europe nor Russia has deployed a rover on the Martian surface.
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The Dry Valleys may well be our closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.
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"What Tina and I liked was obviously The Martian book," she told Mashable.
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Previously, only orbital radar has been used to look through Martian polar ice.
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Now it's like doing Sudoku in some Martian-based 39-number [counting] system.
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Some Martian volcanoes that look as if they erupted underwater could offer clues.
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From Transformers to The Martian, Hollywood films are looking to China's massive audiences.
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One day, while comparing different satellite images of a single Martian crater taken at various times of year, he noticed something odd: a set of dark streaks in the soil that grew in the Martian summer and shrank in the winter.
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Last Friday, during a panel about Mars exploration in San Francisco, The Martian author Andy Weir revealed that after the success of his book, he had splurged on the purchase a small Martian meteorite for the hefty price of $21,21.
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The idea that not only is she not a green martian but she's actually a white martian, the race that wiped his people out, when that knowledge comes to the foreground, it's going to be a devastating emotional blow for J'onn.
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In 2018, a Martian rover will land on that planet's surface to dig in the dirt for signs of past life—and some newly commissioned Martian roadmaps may have accidentally revealed more than intended about just where that site will be.
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Images: Artist's concepts of Martian colonization / NASAIn a working paper posted on ArXiv, lead researcher Lin Wan and her coauthors lay out a process to use molten sulfur to mix with Martian dirt and then let it set until it hardens.
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But a recent wave of innovation has opened up the possibility of Martian houses that are made from far more exotic and easily sourced materials, such as 3D printed bricks of ice, compressed Martian regolith, microbial cement, and even mushrooms.
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So I read it while we were shooting The Martian, and they were right.
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Curiosity can see Martian mountains in the distance with a craggy, rocky surface underfoot.
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This marks the first time Martian sand dunes have been studied from close range.
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This data could also help scientists discover how wind is shaping the Martian landscape.
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When it hits the Martian atmosphere, InSight will be going more than 13,4.53 MPH.
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"You can't breathe the Martian atmosphere, you're inside most of the time," Melvin said.
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That was the main takeaway from several meetings, that Obama freaking loves The Martian.
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Update: 2:58 pm ET: Image of Martian surface relayed back by InSight (below).
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SEIS is now perfectly level with the Martian surface, but it's standing too high.
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Using that Martian weed, though, might yield different results on Mars than on earth.
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He's a scary monster, he's a super creep, he's a Martian, he's the Mule.
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That's because the Martian atmosphere is only about 1 percent the density of Earth's.
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It seeks to understand the gas in the Martian atmosphere—methane gas, in particular.
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What do you need to prove when you're the martian wearing Space Jam Jordans?
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It returned its crystal-clear first photo of the Martian surface just hours later.
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Stahl followed in 2006, to found his own graphic design company, Martian and Sons.
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October 2015, topped by The Martian, is a distant third place, with $715.3 million.
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Strictly in terms of trophies not won, The Martian was the night's big loser.
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NASA wants to use this same technology when their astronauts attempt a Martian landing.
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Eventually that lake disappeared on the Martian surface, but it didn't totally go away.
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That said, could Elon Musk finally get to play Martian overlord by the 2060s?
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Besides the aridity, the Martian surface is bitterly cold and blasted by solar radiation.
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As we enter Martian gravity, our first parabola, I notice my arms drift up.
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As it rolled on, Opportunity came across a meteorite, its lithology distinctively un-Martian.
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However, once you look past the Martian surface, the geology tells a different story.
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We would need a Martian city—and this is how we might build one.
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Opportunity traveled exactly 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) during its time on the Martian surface.
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Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ryan F. MandelbaumThe landscape around Erebus crater, Martian day 758.
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This artist's concept illustrates a Martian dust storm, which might also crackle with electricity.
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The robot is projected to examine the Martian interior for at least two years.
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In the movie, "The Martian," Matt Damon was a fictional astronaut stranded on Mars.
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NASA has identified thousands of these dark, flow-like streaks on the Martian surface.
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Did a martian overlord inhabit both of their bodies and mastermind the whole relationship?
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Will any of these fan theories come true, like the one about Martian Manhunter?
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MarCO shared data about InSight when it entered the Martian atmosphere for the landing.
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Monitoring Martian weather will help scientists learn more about the planet's dramatic seasonal changes.
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These Red Dragon "shipments" will bring supplies and replacement parts to the Martian colonists.
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Like on Earth, there are stories locked in the Martian core, mantle and crust.
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Mounds were first observed in Martian craters during NASA's Viking program in the 1970s.
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Remember the character Mark Whitney growing potatoes in space in the movie The Martian?
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In Chinese, it is a mere transliteration of "Uncle Martian" — An Ke Ma Ting.
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Conventional wisdom is that Martian life, if it exists, would be limited to microbes.
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The Martian mVoice Smartwatch with Amazon Alexa gives you the best of both worlds.
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The photos are surreal, like a Martian ski slope or a toasted marshmallow sky.
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If all goes well, astronauts will be one step closer to a Martian mission.
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Don't leave us with nothing We're no children of Martian Summertimes Nor Manifest Destinies.
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Dr. Atreya is less certain of that conclusion, which involves assumptions about Martian weather.
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That includes attempting to grow barley, the other essential ingredient for future Martian beer.
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To make up for the disruption, Dad offers to show his son a Martian.
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If you go to the Martian surface, now you're a year into your flight.
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Figuring out extraterrestrial agriculture will be a crucial element of any future Martian bases.
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That works out to an average of 668.6 — the length of a Martian year.
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Looks like The Martian was right about one thing: potatoes can grow on Mars.
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What do "Get Out" and "The Martian" have in common, besides being fine movies?
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Unexpectedly, gusts of Martian winds repeatedly acted as cleaning events, wiping the dust away.
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You tripping on the way to see the martian and just banging your head?
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Artemis, the latest from The Martian author Andy Weir, is an aggressively fine book.
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InSight is the first dedicated to unlocking secrets from deep below the Martian surface.
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Those instruments will arrive on a platform nearly identical to the previous Phoenix lander's to transport the instruments to the Martian surface The InSight lander will need to slow from 12,000-plus mile-per-hour speeds to softly land on the Martian surface.
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Okay, so the martian surface suit that Mark Watney wears on Mars from The Martian is not a quick or easy build, but there's a simpler costume that you could put together if you're a fan of the movie: his flight jumpsuit.
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No experiments have ever been moved robotically from the spacecraft to the actual Martian surface.
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Opportunity has worked actively right through the lowest-energy months of its eighth Martian winter.
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Scientists interested in the Martian atmosphere perhaps have fewer requirements for where the mission lands.
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Correction: This post previously misstated the speed at which InSight will enter the Martian atmosphere.
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Well, humanity's latest probe to the Martian surface isn't just interested in rocks and molecules.
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Behold Lobo Vallis, a Martian region with active dunes and lots and lots of sand.
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Behold Lobo Vallis, a Martian region with active dunes and lots and lots of sand.
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This event left a dark streak, known as a slope streak, across the Martian surface.
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A list of Martian meteorites discovered to date is kept here and lunar meteorites here.
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Canali means "channels," but people widely mistranslated it as "canals" – as in, Martian-dug waterways.
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The Martian surface, as imaged by the Instrument Deployment Camera attached to InSight's robotic arm.
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Imagine trying to take a leak, say, in the inhospitable environment of a Martian winter.
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The experiment, called Labeled Release (LR), was designed to test Martian soil for organic matter.
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For the last decade or so, the Martian south polar ice cap has conspicuously receded.
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One of the TGO's jobs is therefore to map methane concentrations in the Martian atmosphere.
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Such a mission could convey two or three tonnes of cargo to the Martian surface.
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NASA has opted to name a stone on the Martian surface after the Rolling Stones.
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From Ford and Volkswagen to Martian Watches and LG refrigerators, voice-integration transcended every category.
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From left to right, Spirit/Opportunity, Sojourner, Curiosity / Image courtesy of NASA NASA's Martian rovers.
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Martian invasion narratives reflect humanity's fears, as well as fictive and actual plans for colonization.
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This discovery will enable researchers to have a better understanding of the elusive Martian atmosphere.
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The last attempt at observing atomic oxygen in the Martian atmosphere was 40 years ago.
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Martian quakes are caused by cooling and contraction, which create stress fractures on the crust.
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Alexa has made its way into wrist wearables, too, like the $300 Martian mVoice smartwatch.
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NASA's MAVEN probe is investigating the Martian atmosphere along with an Indian spacecraft called MOM.
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Similarly, in 2015, The Martian won the Golden Globe for best picture as a comedy.
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To date, Curiosity has traversed nearly 10 miles (16 km) across the rugged Martian surface.
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RP: So you're telling me a Martian cat colony is not out of the question?
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There's a chance that similar structures could be used for future lunar or martian colonization.
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They had some early success with germinating plants in both the lunar and Martian soils.
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You can tour a mockup of the Martian home at the UK's Royal Observatory Greenwich.
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Using your mouse, you can manually steer Curiosity's camera and investigate the barren Martian landscape.
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From 2013 to 2018, the University of Hawaii operated simulated Martian missions inside the habitat.
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Next came "The Martian," with seven nods, although its director, Ridley Scott, was prominently snubbed.
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Spirit arrived on Mars first, landing in the Martian Gusev crater on January 4, 2004.
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The last step of construction requires certain formwork to leave Martian concrete in desired shapes.
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Yesterday, Musk finally revealed the Raptor engine that will power his Martian flights in action.
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RisingerEventually, however, the thick Martian atmosphere evaporated, and along with it, the planet's surface water.
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The rats were exposed to normal Earth gravity or simulated Martian gravity for 14 days.
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The Goldfinch, The Nightingale, The Martian, The Interestings, The Vacationers, The Girl on the Train.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Martian moon Phobos crossing in front of the Sun.
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Can you imagine what we can do with a cargo hold full of Martian rock?
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Non-white stars exist —some of them even starred in Scott's next movie, The Martian.
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Aquaculture of mussels, crustaceans, and spirulina blue-green algae might round out a Martian diet.
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Holden recognized her as a well-respected Martian journalist, but he couldn't remember her name.
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One said he called to report "a little green martian" who stole from his garbage.
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It opened a whole new parameter space for questions we could ask about Martian evolution.
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There will also be other robotic Martian exploration vehicles at the crew's disposal, including aircraft.
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This is about 12 to 16 percent of the mass of the entire Martian atmosphere.
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For large objects, parachutes and other familiar landing systems won't work on the Martian surface.
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"But they show that the Martian habitability is affected by the potential of dissolved oxygen."
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Here's hoping InSight finds a softer place to get to the heart of Martian matter.
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Curiosity will continue to sample the Martian soil for as long as it is able.
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But during the flyby, MarCO-A transmitted signals through the edge of the Martian atmosphere.
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Martian soil is thought to contain salts known as perchlorates, which are toxic for humans.
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Finding liquid water would be the key discovery that would make Martian exploration relatively easy.
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There are obligatory references to L.A. traffic, which apparently gets even worse during Martian invasions.
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As more people are sent to the Martian base, Musk envisions a city to emerge.
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The Martian is the umpteenth movie in which Matt Damon has been rescued from something.
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Essentially, radioactive food made with unstable carbon-14 was added to samples of Martian soil.
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The Martian VR Experience is hopefully a sign of things to come for virtual reality.
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That theory stemmed from another Martian meteorite, but this one came from the planet's mantle.
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They verified that crops grown in Martian soil were equally nutritious and safe to eat.
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The Martian might be a good example, The Goblin Emperor might be a good example.
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The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica may be Earth's closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.
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Oxygen, which makes up about 0.13 percent of the Martian atmosphere, is the latest puzzler.
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Luckily, astronomers, science-fiction writers and enthusiastic hobbyists have presented several proposals for Martian calendars.
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Streams and rivers flowing from mountain ranges lead to similar basins as the Martian terrain.
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But the rover got stuck in the dunes of windblown material on the Martian surface.
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If their dates are correct, this runoff happened later in Martian history than thought possible.
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For an additional $400 million, the rovers explored for 5,111 Martian days instead of 90.
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Images captured by the satellite's HiRise camera reveal just what a Martian winter looks like.
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Alaskey voiced other Looney Tunes characters as well, including Marvin the Martian and Foghorn Leghorn.
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Comparison of peas grown in Lunar (1st), Martian (2nd), and Earth (3rd) soil / Wieger WamelinkOf course, even with a successful harvest in Martian soil out of the way, there would still be significant obstacles to actually setting up a farm on the surface of Mars.
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And the latest to do so is a tie-in project for Ridley Scott's 2015 film The Martian, which will appear tomorrow on the HTC Vive and Sony's PlayStation VR. The Martian VR Experience is executive produced by Scott and directed by Maleficent's Robert Stromberg.
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What I found fascinating beyond just the success of "The Martian" is that you, as you pointed out, wrote stories on your own, you published them by yourself on your website for free, and that's how "The Martian" actually started is you just had serials.
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There will be a camera capable of detecting organic compounds in rocks, a machine that will test the conversion of C02 in the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, ground-penetrating radar for probing the Martian surface, and other instruments to study the geologic history of Mars.
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Jessica Chastain, a lead in "The Martian," studied drama at Juilliard on the Upper West Side.
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In the end, Opportunity's Martian life ended the way it started, amid a ruthless desert storm.
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The rover recently began drilling into the Martian surface for the first time in 18 months.
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But it does give the exciting impression that one is flying just above the Martian surface.
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Four such reactors would be needed to fuel a Martian outpost, according to a NASA release.
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The agency&aposs nuclear-powered Curiosity, meanwhile, is snapping photos of the ever-darkening Martian sky.
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Fewer than 100 Martian meteorites and 300 lunar meteorites have been discovered and confirmed to date.
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On May 19, Curiosity will (hopefully) bore into Martian rock using the hammering-enabled FED technique.
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The rovers were solar-powered, and NASA never expected them to live through a Martian winter.
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Eventually the scientists came to view them as residue of ancient water percolating through Martian dirt.
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As it descends into the Martian atmosphere, the ship would then use "supersonic retro propulsion" — i.e.
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Its tracks are visible in an image that show its patterned trails on the Martian surface.
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Now, Opportunity's demise is all but certain, as the rover is about to enter Martian winter.
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One of these ships, landed permanently on Mars, could conceivably serve as the first Martian habitat.
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The scientists examined ancient Martian shorelines for anomalies and discovered lobes modifying portions of these coasts.
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One of the big appeals of The Martian was that it was a real page-turner.
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However, it's designed with an eye towards of realism for what a Martian mission might require.
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On top of that, the rover will also be drilling and collecting samples of Martian dirt.
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"We really haven't had the opportunity to explore the Martian worldview prior to this," Franck says.
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The atoms were discovered in the Martian mesosphere, the upper layers of the red planet's atmosphere.
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The Martian has taken home this year's Golden Globe for best motion picture, comedy or musical.
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That means Martian spacecraft need proper shielding if they hope to reach the surface without melting.
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As a result, Schiaparelli slammed into the Martian ground, creating a new crater on the surface.
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"Damon was reportedly paid $25 million to star in 2015's 'The Martian,'" Vanity Fair reported.
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The Martian made space potato farming look, if not quite delicious or easy, then certainly plausible.
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Then, a hybridized version is deployed on Ganymede, where it kills a team of Martian soldiers.
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Engineers suspect that debris, like Martian dirt or pebbles, is gumming up the drill feed motor.
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Perhaps some day we'll scoop up these faithful servants and put them in a Martian museum.
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A Martian gravity map showing high-gravity areas in white and low-gravity areas in blue.
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A map of Martian gravity looking down at the North Pile (left) and South Pole (right).
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When the rover isn't gazing up at the Martian atmosphere, it's primarily interested in the ground.
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I'm standing on a high peak, surrounded by red Martian rocks, when the sand storm approaches.
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This photo of a DVD of The Martian being sold next to potatoes has gone viral.
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Students can live in a Martian colony, complete with small spaces, interactive doors and oxygen tanks.
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You see it in rappers becoming venture capitalists, xkcd being huge, The Martian becoming a phenomena.
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If you saw The Martian, you know how significant a delay of that magnitude can be.
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There are no current plans to send a tool like that on any future Martian spacecraft.
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Unfortunately, this Martian surface formation isn't some kind of time-hopping message from the future Federation.
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In reality, the false-color picture shows a series of trails produced by Martian dust devils.
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Evidence to date suggests it flows seasonally, descending steep slopes in transient trickles every Martian summer.
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Martian food Planning food for a manned mission to Mars makes shelf-life a major issue.
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The event happened during the early afternoon in Elysium Planitia, a region on the Martian equator.
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The stationary probe should start drilling into the Martian surface in late January or early February.
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Rafi was only 24, but his skin was gray and each ragged eye was Martian red.
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ET, the vessel is on a mission to observe Martian earthquakes and study the planet's interior.
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He even attached a picture of the suspect -- Marvin the Martian from the "Looney Tunes" cartoons.
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"The Martian" is popular, and "Room" has been praised, but neither is a sure-fire guarantee.
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And it shows up in The Martian Chronicles as an illusion and a parable about nostalgia.
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It's watched comets grace the Martian skies and the Sun set behind the planet's cratered horizon.
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Nor would a Martian necessarily have understood the relationship between Bank policies and the inflation target.
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Beginning at the 1:10 mark in the video below, you can hear the Martian wind.
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Last but not least, MOXIE will convert the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere into oxygen.
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That way, experts could use laboratory tools here on Earth to pick apart the Martian dirt.
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Data gathered from the Viking landers — two Martian spacecraft equipped with astrobiology experiments — is considered inconclusive.
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Deadly bacteria like anthrax or tetanus may actually be able to survive in the Martian soil.
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Before, researchers couldn't understand why the little bit of methane detected in the Martian atmosphere varied.
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The soprano Hila Plitmann arrestingly portrayed a Martian spokesperson, her voice oscillating like a sine wave.
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"I've spent time with him on The Martian and he's a really good guy," she added.
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Get some classic analog good looks with these two Martian smartwatches designed for him and her.
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At the beginning, "The Martian" was one of three larger writing projects Weir was working on.
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Curiosity's Mast Camera took the images on the 1,197th sol (a Martian day) of its mission.
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It's not yet clear which of the three robots will get to the Martian surface first.
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You always see like a little alien-looking, martian thing, and that was the Space Invader.
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Cool crater portraits aren't the only seasonal gifts we're getting from our Martian robots this week.
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The most striking one was the Martian moon Phobos, which sped by Mars on March 26.
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Written and directed by Drew Goddard, also known for "The Martian," the film received mixed reaction.
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Together, they match the strange story told by the Martian meteorites and Mars' different water sources.
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It may even point to present-day Martian microbes living in the rocks below the surface.
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Then the scientists sifted through the results to figure out what might be genuine Martian organics.
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It looks like The Martian and every movie about every NASA mission all rolled into one.
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Or did they decide to bring the Martian thunder to those puny humans a second time?
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For every Martian there is a First Man, one movie looking at triumph, another examining struggle.
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So far, they&aposve only been able to examine fragments of Martian meteorites that hit Earth.
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Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds.
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The mission is scheduled to last at least one Martian year, or about 687 Earth days.
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Throughout the episode, Laurie is sending a message to Doctor Manhattan via a Martian telephone call.
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" Haze de Martian, another Bradford MC, laughs: "I don't think Stormzy would do a bad job.
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Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its rover Opportunity had concluded its mission on the Martian surface.
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Instead of just 90 Martian days, Opportunity lasted 5,111, counting the days until its last transmission.
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You can find out tomorrow, when The Martian VR Experience lands on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. The collaboration between Fox's Innovation Lab, RSA Films and The Virtual Reality Company attempts to replicate the plot of The Martian, in a first-person immersive virtual reality experience.
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Similar to how Bradbury originally published the stories of "The Martian Chronicles" in serial form, "The Martian" by Mr. Weir was first released one chapter at a time on his personal blog, which he later compiled and self-published in 2011 as an e-book on Amazon.
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The Trace Gas Orbiter will also be used to map hydrogen levels just beneath the Martian surface.
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The Big Short ... with Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian and Brooklyn in position for real surprises.
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"It's so funny to me that his favorite movie of the year was The Martian," Kehe says.
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HP3 will bury itself nearly 16 feet into the Martian crust to study heat leaving the planet.
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Those who carry out systematic observations can contribute some useful knowledge about Martian weather and surface conditions.
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But if it works, it could offer a new way for scientists to explore the Martian surface.
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This means the Martian surface could have been habitable right around the time when water was abundant.
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HiRISE has taken some of the most spectacular and detailed images of the Martian surface to date.
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That spacecraft will be used to beam back data about molecules it finds in the Martian atmosphere.
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Weir's Martian rock came from the Northwest Africa 7635 meteorite which was found in Morocco in 2012.
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But the simulated Martian soil contains a special chemical ingredient that acts like its own innate binder.
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They ultimately landed on iron oxide — a chemical compound that gives Martian soil its signature red color.
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The Martian seemed like a possible Best Picture winner as recently as a couple of months ago.
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His most recent movie "The Martian," directed by Ridley Scott, grossed over $600 million worldwide in 2015.
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Given the popularity of The Martian, were you able to speak with scientists at NASA, for example?
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Today, there are two operational robots on the Martian surface and five operational orbiters circling the planet.
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Hell, Andy Weir's The Martian technically qualifies, although Mark Watney hardly sets up a self-sustaining presence.
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With seven nominations (including Picture but not, this time, Director), Ridley Scott's The Martian landed in third.
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InSight landed on Mars in November 2018 and placed the seismometer on the Martian surface in February.
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When the relative warmth of the Martian summer warms the ices a little, some methane seeps out.
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Had NASA not ordered the maneuver, MAVEN could have smashed into the Martian moon on March 6th.
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According to Shotwell, SpaceX will carry science experiments and other payloads to the Martian surface with it.
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If methane is present in Martian air, something—either a biological or geological process—is resupplying it.
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In March 503, they started "selling" Martian land for $2 a square meter, resurrecting their bizarre scheme.
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It stitches together scenes from movies like The Martian, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunshine, and more.
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Given no scenes they can really sink their teeth into, the actors mostly chew the Martian scenery.
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They also suggest that the Martian soil contains toxic elements that also would need to be removed.
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This 155 mile-long lobe of dark material might be the remnants of a Martian mega-tsunami.
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The pictures are so crisp and detailed, it's as if we're right there on the Martian surface.
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Understanding these things will help scientists better understand Martian history—and the formation of the solar system.
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This conclusion, that the balls formed from accretion, meant that water once existed on the Martian surface.
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Click here to view original GIFOpportunity captured images of Martian clouds passing overhead on October 2, 2006.
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Or a tepid glass of Martian water with a single drop of perpetually hazy purple food coloring?
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During "The Martian VR Experience" you need to drive a Mars rover to a rocket, avoiding rocks.
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Both films nabbed the coveted Best Picture nom alongside titles like The Martian and The Big Short.
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A satellite zooming around Mars spotted a lone machine, the Curiosity Rover, exploring the rugged Martian terrain.
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As a result, heavier vehicles descending to the Martian surface have a much harder time landing intact.
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The Martian has a diverse supporting cast, but the movie revolves around Matt Damon's abandoned astronaut character.
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"Our next presenter is the star of the hilarious comedy The Martian," Gervais said, rolling his eyes.
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Ridley Scott, who many thought might win his first(!) Oscar for directing The Martian, wasn't even nominated.
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Most experts agree that Martian settlers will eventually have to live off the land in some way.
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MarCO will try to share data about InSight when it enters the Martian atmosphere for the landing.
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And in November, NASA selected the landing site for the next Martian mission: the Mars 2020 rover.
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The craft intends to touch down on the Martian surface at only a few miles per hour.
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Scientists don't expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they're making their own.
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Not looking so pleased was Ridley Scott, whose film "The Martian" did not end up winning anything.
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Just because plants grew out of Martian dirt, it's hardly a guarantee of quality, edibility, or safety.
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Scientists around the world are beginning to tackle the colossal challenges entailed by a crewed Martian mission.
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You can watch a video showing how the Red Dragon would hover onto the Martian surface here.
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There's a stark difference between how you put "The Martian" together and how you put "Artemis" together.
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"Her favorite movie is The Martian with Matt Damon," Pink said recently on an Australian radio show.
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NASA only needs a few dozen kilowatts worth of power for its initial lunar or Martian outposts.
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The rover has six aluminum wheels with grooves to help it remain stable on the Martian surface.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BERLIN — Take a ride with Halil Altındere through his Martian fantasy.
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"Also, it may help acidify Martian soil," said Elizabeth Johnson, a Villanova senior who took the class.
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Like Dr. Guinan, Dr. Wamelink found that mixing organic material into Martian soil greatly improved plant growth.
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Or he could make a grand proclamation about Tesla Cybertrucks roving the Martian surface in four years.
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More likely sources are chemicals like hydrogen peroxide and perchlorates known to exist in the Martian dirt.
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It will drill into Martian rock, collect samples, and stash them for future transport back to Earth.
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The European Space Agency and the Russian space agency are also in on the Martian land rush.
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Coleman, a kind-faced, nurturing type who wore a T-shirt depicting a Martian mountain range, nodded.
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The first thing every congressman said is … Are they worried about contaminating the Earth with Martian dust?
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Other models showed it on the surface of Mars as well as buried inside a Martian cave.
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You've always been a bit of a Martian history buff, and this was right up your alley.
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Thus the water around the island is shallow, perhaps similar to what existed around the Martian volcanoes.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the number of Martian days that the Opportunity rover operated.
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We Think These Martian Roadmaps Accidentally Revealed the Site of an Upcoming Mars LandingIn 2018, a Martian rover will land on that planet's surface to dig in the dirt for signs of past…Read more ReadWe're closer than ever now to landing and living on a planet besides earth.
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Kelly seems to have done well at his tests, which may bode well for NASA's future Martian ambitions.
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Analysing the vibrations those quakes and meteorites generate will give clues about the composition of the Martian interior.
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The Golden Globes split the baby between "The Revenant" for best drama and "The Martian" for best comedy.
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Dust hangs in the Martian air in this photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover on June 2, 2018.
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And while we're all pining for a sign from the possibly dead Opportunity rover, Martian science continues onward.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: Decolonization in the Martian context requires asking questions about who is entitled to what land.
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Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo: In a Martian context, thinking practically, there's a population transported from one place to another.
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Despite a string of recent NASA successes, the overall success rate for Martian landings is around 40 percent.
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Assuming a successful landing, InSight will be the first probe in history to drill into the Martian surface.
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The hexagonal device rests passively on the Martian surface, and a tether connects it to the InSight lander.
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It would be more ideal, however, to bring Martian soil samples back to Earth for a closer look.
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Superman, by contrast, takes J'onn J'onzz — the Martian Manhunter, a fellow Justice Leaguer and alien — home to Smallville.
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The oldest of these seven is the most ancient Martian material ever dated directly, study team members said.
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Later, the chamber was filled with an artificial Martian atmosphere and heated up to reentry temperatures (the "bake").
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In 2010, University of Arizona undergraduate Lujendra Ojha noticed dark streaks running down Martian hillsides in satellite images.
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On Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, six "astronauts" live in a simulated Martian environment for eight months or more.
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The copper-colored device is now sitting pretty on the Martian surface, but the deployment is still incomplete.
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To bore into Martian rock, Curiosity's drill uses a combination of percussive hammering with a rotating drill bit.
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NASA's InSight lander touched down safely just last month on a flat Martian plane to hunt for Marsquakes.
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The team only made miniature bricks, so it's possible that larger Martian bricks won't hold up so well.
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It might turn out that low Martian gravity is just as bad for human health as zero gravity.
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Equipped with a coring drill, the nuclear-powered rover will be capable of collecting and storing Martian samples.
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The Martian environment, for instance, has different temperatures, gravity, and radiation levels than the space around the Moon.
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However, it is similar in size and weight to another recent Martian lander that didn't fare so well.
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Nasa's MAVEN orbiter is also investigating the Martian atmosphere after it began its mission in orbit in 2014.
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Does the space suit riff on Best Picture nominee The Martian – and its nominated lead actor, Matt Damon?
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Such intermittency has been seen in Martian methane results before and it has yet to be accounted for.
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Elon Musk's Martian WaterparkImage: AP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezIn case you haven't heard, Elon Musk is very rich.
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The Martian probe has entered into safe mode on three previous occasions, all of them in 2013.[NASA]
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We know Phobos is falling apart—so eventually, it may become yet another ring in this Martian cycle.
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Hopefully, this all gets sorted out soon before the Martian colonies begin, because goddamn would that be disastrous.
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Andy Weir's "The Martian" was a crowdfunding success story — but that model doesn't work for everyone, he says.
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However, the new signal is too small and faint to provide a clear picture of the Martian interior.
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" The Best Actor nominee and star of The Martian added, "This is gonna be a very long road.
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There's actually a photo of her looking at me like I'm a martian, that somebody published later on.
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But Musk said the company will come up with another way to land vehicles on the Martian surface.
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George Miller ("Mad Max: Fury Road") and Ridley Scott ("The Martian") also landed Directors Guild nominations this year.
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But The Martian was so huge that I suspect Damon is the next safest bet here, after DiCaprio.
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New evidence suggests this Martian sea experienced at least two "mega-tsunamis" that were triggered by meteor impacts.
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By comparison, Scott's The Martian was shot over just 70 days and cost $27 million less to produce.
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Someone had taped red plastic over some of the fluorescent lights, to lend the room a martian ambience.
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These traits could be made heritable, such that Martian colonists could pass down the characteristics to their offspring.
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First, let's check out our Martian neighbor's odd-looking dunes that are moved around and shaped by winds.
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And while it might snap some pictures of dreamy Martian vistas, it's not the surface that it's targeting.
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False-color image of dust devil trails give the distinct appearance of a tarantula on the Martian surface.
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Graphic: Wikimedia user James919 (Wikimedia Commons)Opportunity exemplified this mobility, traveling over 28 miles across the Martian surface.
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In the movie, it's surrounded by the set of The Martian, or maybe a slightly radioactive Sedona, Arizona.
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Along with NASA's InSight lander, Curiosity is now one of only two functioning probes on the Martian surface.
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Still, NASA is working to protect future crewed missions from the dangers that may arise from Martian weather.
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These readings are like indirect snapshots of the Martian interior, and contain information about its structure and composition.
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Their conclusion: The reactions "could have consumed a 3km thick ocean covering the entire Martian surface," says Wade.
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But according to Rothschild, in the Martian economy, urine has far more valuable uses than just making bricks.
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The Martian came in third with seven nominations, and Spotlight, Carol and Bridge of Spies followed with six.
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The maneuver was also used by fictional spacecraft like the Hermes in the movie (and book) The Martian.
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Contenders: Matt Damon carries "The Martian" and won a Golden Globe -- for comedy, but we'll let that pass.
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Not so long ago, I would have mistook the augmented reality headset CastAR for magic or martian technology.
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The punchline here is that The Martian wouldn't have been much of a movie if Watney were black.
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When those miners are taken aboard an immense Martian warship, the captain is a no-nonsense Asian woman.
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And that doesn't include time on the Martian surface, with its pitifully thin atmosphere and weak magnetic field.
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This specialized instrument was never meant to actually record sound, just air pressure in the natural Martian environs.
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Even in The Martian, Americans have to more or less trick the Chinese government into helping them out.
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In 2004, Mars Express detected methane in the Martian atmosphere, which got scientists—and ET fans—very excited.
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It's a fascination I never quite feel with Surviving Mars, the Martian citybuilder from former Tropico developer Haemimont.
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Perhaps. What will that mean down the road when another group of explorers goes hunting for Martian life?
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This instrument will pull carbon dioxide out of the Martian atmosphere and use it to produce pure oxygen.
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One moment you're translating for a Martian, the next you're playing badminton with a cat in a plane.
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Unlike the rovers already on the Martian surface, InSight will stay put during its planned two-year mission.
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A relatively recent possible discovery of a buried Martian lake was promising, but the data was not conclusive.
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They successfully sent data from the InSight lander back to Earth as it landed on the Martian surface.
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A: Well, she's a Martian Marine, which means that she's coming out of the gate a tough character.
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The Martian atmosphere is one-hundredth the density of Earth's, providing less cushion to slow down incoming vehicles.
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The seismometer instrument, provided by CNES, requires a sealed vacuum to operate properly in the harsh Martian environment.
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I share those aspirations, and hope to live to see the first humans leave footprints in Martian dirt.
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The success of "The Martian," the success of both the film and the book, landed you other things.
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Are you at least as good as Matt Damon when it comes to surviving the harsh Martian landscape?
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For example, Smith and colleagues found dramatic slopes in layers of ice within the Martian northern ice cap.
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"The Martian" follows the life and struggle of the sole survivor of the first manned mission to Mars.
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Most of the time there's not much methane in the Martian air, less than 1 part per billion.
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So why not skip ahead and get to the important stuff, like how will Martian colonies govern themselves?
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But those values differ wildly in Martian meteorites, and none of them have been similar, the researchers said.
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"Now, Opportunity's demise is all but certain, as the rover is about to enter Martian winter," Grush writes.
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Opportunity got an amazing perspective of the Martian surface, sending us back many incredible photos of its geology.
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And here's what it saw on its journey, including a very cool glimpse at a Martian solar eclipse.
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"It's a bit like finding a single crashed Martian spacecraft out in the Arizona desert," said Dr. Rossie.
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A prototype has been tested in a chamber that mimics the Martian atmosphere at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Understanding how the atmosphere behaves at the Martian surface is key to understanding Mars and its ancient past.
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This would also prevent any false positive reading for life on the Martian surface that's really from Earth.
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught sight of the space agency's InSight lander on the Martian surface in September.
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And you can find Mashable's 2015 interview about putting science back in science fiction with The Martian here.
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The spacecraft is to spend at least two years in orbit, monitoring a full cycle of Martian seasons.
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Those instruments also detected low-frequency sound, below the range of human hearing, traveling through the Martian atmosphere.
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InSight has also revealed that the Martian atmosphere has irregular turbulence unexpectedly similar to that of Earth's atmosphere.
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Today's Martian surface is still way too hostile for any organic life complex to skitter across the rocks.
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The accumulation of unprecedented amounts of water vapor is occurring about 50 miles up from the Martian surface.
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Each mission is based at a different location, helping to create a global picture of Martian weather. 4.
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These results include measurements of the Martian magnetic field and more evidence for liquid water beneath its surface.
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The researchers think it's possible that the Martian climate tipped back and forth between dry and wet cycles.
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NASA's InSight lander spent more than six months careening through space before it landed safely on Martian soil.
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The technology to transform the dry, dusty Red Planet into a thriving Martian metropolis just doesn't exist yet.
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Trilobites Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian moons, got between the red planet and the sun in March.
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At the bottom of the list are The Martian, with 80 percent, and The Revenant, with 76 percent.
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It features a children's chorus, a dance ensemble that plays besieged Victorians as well as undulating Martian weeds, a Martian fighting machine that descends from the ceiling and trundles across the stage, and — in place of Burton's head — the floating, talking face of the actor Liam Neeson projected onto various surfaces.
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The entire project was self-funded and is partially sustained through Patreon donations, but even if you don't have the cash to contribute to the project, you can follow along as they live blog their (mis)-adventures in creating a Martian habitat, which they're framing as a recreation of The Martian.
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But they more than make up for it as soon as Bakare zaps the Martian amoeba to dancing life.
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To test that theory, an international group of scientists created a 'Martian room' out of a converted hyperbaric chamber.
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On Wednesday morning, if all goes well, the European Space Agency's Schiaparelli probe will alight on rusty Martian dirt.
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It's also drilled into Martian rocks and repeatedly turned up evidence that the planet's surface once harbored liquid water.
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Image: The MartianIn The Martian, Matt Damon used his own shit to fertilize potatoes and survive the Red Planet.
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This way, scientists could conduct more detailed investigations of Martian dirt to study its chemical and (possibly) organic compounds.
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As far as Martian volcanoes go, Arsia Mons is thought to have been active only 200 million years ago.
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Runoff stained with tannins from the forest had dyed the normally clear water a surreal, Martian shade of red.
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The Big Short's screenplay, based on a book by Michael Lewis, competed against Brooklyn, Carol, The Martian and Room.
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CRANE (voice-over): For a Martian environment, NASA is currently working on their Z-2 prototype, a spacewalking suit.
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Mars Express continues to actively scour the red Martian terrain and transmit truly brilliant extraterrestrial images back to Earth.
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Schiaparelli ended up crashing into the Martian surface, but TGO arrived safely and recently settled into its final orbit .
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In 2013, it discovered some organic molecules in the Martian soil; and in 2014, methane gas in the atmosphere.
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Will it be Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, or Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
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Once InSight reaches Mars, the spacecraft will disconnect from the cruise stage and begin entry into the Martian atmosphere.
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But there's work left to do, especially when it comes to bringing a sample of Martian dust to Earth.
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The thought of having some sweet leaf, sitting back and admiring the red Martian landscape sounds perfectly out there.
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Later in the thread, however, Musk dropped an even bigger admission to his fans: He is actually a Martian.
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Ridley Scott, best known for his award-winning films like Gladiator and The Martian, has signed on to direct.
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And that worry goes both ways: We'll want to be careful about contaminating or killing any Martian life, too.
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I know that neck rings that FBFX effects made for The Martian and for this suit were 3D printed.
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After years of fake feuding, including a fake kidnapping, Kimmel immediately booted the poor Martian off of his show.
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One of the biggest science fiction novels to hit bookstores in the last decade is Andy Weir's The Martian.
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Because Phobos is so close to the Martian surface, it's subject to a much stronger than usual gravitational pull.
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Globe voters are also notoriously quirky; this year, for instance, they rather bizarrely classified "The Martian" as a comedy.
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Basically, Branson has a long way to go before he should even be dreaming about a Martian colony.2.
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According to the researchers, the Martian colonists would probably starve—and the project itself would run out of money.
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It's been growing in size, and there are signs that it could eventually span nearly the entire Martian globe.
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The ExoMars rover is part of a series of Martian missions by the ESA and Russia's Roscosmos State Corporation.
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The day of Opportunity's landing, January 25th, was considered Sol 1 — or the first Martian day for the rover.
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There's also another big question that these new Martian vegetables could finally answer for us: How do they taste?
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ExoMars created its first 3D image of Martian topography from two stereo images captured by the Trace Gas Orbiter.
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With the Chang'e series, China has shown that, unlike NASA, their focus is on lunar, rather than Martian, exploration.
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From millions of miles away, NASA scientists suspect these clouds hovered some 19-miles above the red Martian surface.
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Blockbuster movies like Interstellar, Gravity, and The Martian have all been released since NASA's 218 call for astronaut applications.
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Besides, we want to be on good terms with cats when they inevitably take over Elon Musk's martian colony.
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Rather, they expected typical Martian dust to layer upon the solar panels, eventually starving Opportunity of light and power.
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We can't yet monitor the entire Martian surface at shorter intervals, hence the uncertainty as to when it formed.
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What the researchers saw in the wind tunnel looked like the Martian mounds and craters, according to the study.
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In the end, what finally defeated the rover was not a sand dune but a massive Martian dust storm.
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A lens is printed right on top to gather and concentrate the meager sunlight that graces the Martian surface.
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More recently, Under Armour has threatened to sue Uncle Martian, a new Chinese sports company that plagiarized its logo.
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The Martian mVoice AE might be the closest we've gotten to a real-life piece of James Bond gadgetry.
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Spotlight beat out The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenantand Room.
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And will moviegoers be unhappy if, say, the little-seen "Room" bumps "The Martian" from the best picture list?
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It's unclear whether the retrorockets succeeded in guiding the lander down to a soft landing on the Martian surface.
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Chris Rock rounded out the clip by playing Matt Damon's character in The Martian — the stranded astronaut Mark Watney.
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I used to wear a Martian watch, and liked the Misfit Phase I tested out a few weeks back.
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Oppo partnered with America's Next Top Model last year, and Vivo Electronics placed its X5 Pro in The Martian.
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For some background, the first phase kicked off in 2014, and solicited architectural design concepts for sustainable Martian habitats.
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The top three proposals—out of a field of over 165 submissions—offered wildly different visions of Martian architecture.
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In a spoof on The Martian, Rock himself plays NASA botanist Mark Watney, who's just been marooned on Mars.
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Such a material might therefore be useful to raise the ground temperature in the region around the Martian poles.
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Opportunity and Spirit have totally overhauled our understanding of Martian geology, revealing never-before-seen rocky features on Mars.
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The Matt Damon Mars survival movie, The Martian, has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
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They could also change life off Earth, providing power to lunar and Martian colonies, or even interstellar generation ships.
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The Red Dragon is meant to use onboard engines to help lower itself down to the Martian ground gently.
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One, called PIXL, will perform x-ray lithochemistry, which helps scientists map the distrobution of elements in Martian rocks.
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The Mars Experience bus, the first-ever vehicle VR system, transports passengers from Earth to the barren Martian desert.
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It's similar in design to the Mars Phoenix Mission, which studied ice near the Martian north pole in 2008.
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These mini-twisters are fairly common on the Red Planet and were portrayed with dramatic effect in The Martian.
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InSight will use a combination of parachutes and onboard engines to gently lower itself down to the Martian surface.
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For forty years, astronomers have puzzled over the miles-high mounds rising from of the centers of Martian craters.
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The Martian mVoice Smartwatches with Amazon Alexa features bold, utilitarian features perfect for everyday use and an active lifestyle.
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Since landing on the Martian surface on November 26, the lander has been taking photos and surveying its surroundings.
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The hit film "The Martian" depicted an American astronaut marooned on Mars, struggling to survive until rescue could come.
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We drove northeast and climbed the Tablelands, a desaturated Martian landscape with mountain peaks inverted into snow-filled craters.
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For starters, the inferred lake beneath the Martian south pole might be nothing more than an aquiver of sludge.
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Using two science instruments on board, InSight will collect seismology and temperature data from deep beneath the Martian surface.
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Until it starts showing up on the walls of your Martian home, enjoy watching it explode in the press.
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"My only job on ['The Martian'] was to cash the check, and I did that really well," he said.
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Compared to NASA's unprecedented 20 meter resolution Martian maps, almost everything produced by bathymetry is seemingly light years behind.
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As sunlight warms the Martian surface, it kicks up a convective rising of air, and a devil is born.
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Thankfully, the folks over at NASA have wasted zero time reaching out to a future generation of Martian explorers.
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The image is especially timely because Mars Express will celebrate its 15th anniversary in Martian orbit on Christmas Day.
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The orbiter even captured this enhanced-color shot of a freshly formed crater on the Martian surface in 2013.
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On Wednesday, the orbiter's engine is to fire, slowing the spacecraft so it can be captured by Martian gravity.
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That means that while those Martian southern summers are intense, they're also roughly 30 days shorter than northern summers.
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Here's what the rover saw on March 26, as the Martian moon Phobos crossed the face of the sun.
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The robot will study the Martian underworld, listening for tremors — marsquakes — to help scientists understand how rocky planets formed.
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The rover is designed to carry out geological studies and ascertain the habitability of the Martian environment, NASA said.
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We drove for eight hours, through wastelands of rubble and Martian hills, until we arrived at a desiccated plain.
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His famous "War of the Worlds," about a Martian colonization of England, was a caustic parable denouncing European empires.
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The Vikings, which landed on Mars in 1976, were famously designed to look for life in the Martian soil.
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Up to four astronauts could live on the Martian surface for two weeks at a time in the lander.
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The ice on Mars would also shield the Martian lake from the damaging radiation that bombards the planet's surface.
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Curiosity's atmospheric measurements showed exactly that pattern for nitrogen and argon, two other trace gases in the Martian atmosphere.
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By delving into Gates' very early life, Guggenheim reveals that, basically, Bill Gates arrived on Earth as a Martian.
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Should the calendar year include only 668 days, it would quickly fall out of alignment with the Martian seasons.
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NASA blasted the InSight lander to Mars with the aim of drilling some 16 feet into the Martian ground.
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All humans would have to do is introduce genetically designed plants and animals to create a new Martian ecosystem.
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Musk gives an anxious half-smile, as if being formally introduced to his first Martian, but, hell, why not?
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After scaling an oddly shaped red Martian, I mean, mountain, he's reunited with his cupcake box and his spaceship.
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But "The Martian" does have an edge with Obama — he told People it was his favorite movie of 2015.
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Schiaparelli was primarily a test platform, designed to operate on the Martian surface for a brief week-long lifespan.
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A petri dish of Martian bacteria may not quite measure up to Ray Bradbury's copper-colored creatures with telepathic skills ("The Martian Chronicles"), but it's more than enough to sustain Mars as the most explored planet after Earth, with about 45 flybys, orbits and landings since the 1960s, and many to come.
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The agency would then use that outpost as a way to train for future crewed trips to the Martian surface.
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I figured out how to repair the Aperture robot and operate the crane in "The Martian" app without any help.
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To ensure we give our future Martian hubs the coolest, most Mars-tastic names ever, here are a few suggestions.
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And then there are the movie theater shootings, which are why I felt wary of the man at The Martian.
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We know how to track spacecraft, do complex operations on the surface, how to manage orbits, deal with Martian terrain.
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It's unknown how long this dust storm will last, though previous Martian dust storms have persisted for weeks to months.
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Click here to view original GIFInSight can lift and lower the tether to reconfigure its position on the Martian surface.
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Astronomers have found evidence of ice-covered water on Jupiter's moon Europa and deep beneath the Martian polar ice caps.
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First up on this week's space rounds is a dive into a Martian crater—and it's not red, but blue.
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And the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has just begun sending back fabulous images of the Martian surface.
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It was similar to The Martian, where Matt Damon creates an allotment from almost nothing on the face of Mars.
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Their last attempt to place a lander on the Martian surface occurred in late 2003 with the Beagle 2 lander.
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Between 2011 and 2014, scientists used sophisticated telescopes to detect volcanic gases leaking from different locations on the Martian surface.
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The Martian probe will study the planet's interior and ultimately answer the looming extraterrestrial quandary: Is Mars alive or dead?
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The dust may also contain a type of salt known as perchlorate, which has been found throughout the Martian surface.
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Still, many experts have been trying to figure out the best way to make Martian bricks for a while now.
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As a result, the lander deployed its parachute too early and slammed into the Martian surface, creating a new crater.
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Getting a heavier-than-air craft to fly on Mars is tough because Martian air is much thinner than Earth's.
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One leading idea is that the Martian atmosphere was thick with carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas that traps heat.
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They also believe studying younger rocks in the future could shed more light on how the Martian surface dried out.
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It also affects the radiative cooling from the carbon-dioxide bands in the Martian thermosphere, which is above the mesosphere.
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Given Valles Marineris' location along the Martian equator, it's highly unlikely that these would be caused by melting ground ice.
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Martian will be rolling out Alexa functionality on other watches after the mVoice, including the GUESS Watches it helped build.
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Just moving around a little bit each day heats Opportunity's battery up enough to function in the frigid Martian environment.
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Such highly detailed shots offer a lot of insight into the Martian landscape and could, perhaps, help facilitate future exploration.
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Alas, the mystery of whether the dry, Martian soil picks up any surprising flavors remains for a little while longer.
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When I needed the Martian for Happy Days, my sister Ronny, who was my casting director, found Robin for me.
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Then again, as Elon Musk noted during his Martian colonization speech last week, SpaceX has already investigated all obvious possibilities.
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The Martian actor said Affleck has been just as affected by the death of his father, Kent Damon, in March.
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And finally, Chris Rock is inserted in Matt Damon's role in "The Martian" as an astronaut stuck on Mars alone.
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Because, otherwise, children are going to be born in lunar or Martian environments that have a lesser gravity than Earth.
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It found organic material in the Martian soil and detected methane — a gas mostly produced by life here on Earth.
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There's also a humanoid robot called Valkyrie that's supposed to assist with tasks like mining the Martian soil for water.
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Arthur Max, the Oscar-nominated production designer for "The Martian," is a longtime collaborator of the film's director, Ridley Scott.
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Weir's is a crime thriller set on the moon, and it's a bit different from his blockbuster debut, The Martian.
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He encouraged me to dress up like a Martian, stand on a ladder and throw paint at a spinning canvas.
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Images: Artist's concepts of Martian colonization / NASA"The only limiting factor would be high temperature or fire resistance," Wan said.
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This finding, detailed today in Science, is the first indication that water may exist in pools underneath the Martian surface.
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The MRO watched as the seasons changed, detected possible liquid water and saw how dust moves across the Martian landscape.
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Opportunity might be dead, but there are tons of raw images left cataloguing its incredible journey across the Martian surface.
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Image: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSISOther images include the edge of a layered mound in Burroughs crater near the Martian south pole.
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Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechSix-wheeled rovers on Mars are great, but imagine a helicopter flying through the thin Martian air.
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Wafting some 257 kilometers (19 miles) above the Martian terrain, they bear an uncanny resemblance to clouds seen on Earth.
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Humans on the Martian surface will already have to contend with radiation, and this effect will only increase the risk.
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It hit the Martian atmosphere at 12,000 miles per hour and successfully pulled off its entry, descent, and landing sequence.
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Still, as a teaser for the masses to showcase what VR can do, The Martian VR Experience does its job.
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BECAUSE "THE MARTIAN" IS NOT A MUSICAL OR A COMEDY AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING ELSE, THAT'S WHY?
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It seems to me that the simplest explanation is that it's the excretions of Martian creatures, living beneath the surface.
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Hollywood films such as "The Martian" and "Interstellar" give us a glimpse of what may be in store for us.
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Who wouldn't want to try their hand at virtual Martian botany or fly through an atmosphere with a depressurized suit?
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For the first time in Martian exploration history, the landing is scheduled to coincide with the planet's dust storm season.
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NASA scientists got an unexpected bonus when, in 2013, Curiosity got a big whiff of methane in the Martian air.
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If all goes well, mission control could know shortly after noon PST whether InSight has landed safely on Martian soil.
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Still, starting a Martian colony has always been the main focus of SpaceX, or at least that of Elon Musk.
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Dust build up would continue to be a challenge, but Martian dust devils have helped keep the rover's lights on.
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Another example comes from Andy Weir's bestselling novel The Martian, which also picks up the Cubs as a reference point.
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The Martian Marines wear some badass armor, and I really hope that we'll see some cosplayers tackling it for ComicCon.
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Fixed with a surround sound system, it's as close as it gets to being trapped in a deadly Martian typhoon.
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The instrument, called RIMFAX, will use radar to see geologic layers and features over 30 feet below the Martian surface.
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It will look for signs of ancient life, and become the first spacecraft to collect samples from the Martian surface.
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Cargo Routes Much of the hardware needed for a Martian settlement will have to be sent over before people arrive.
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At one point, he even said that they may need the help of Matt Damon's fictional character from The Martian.
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Perhaps obviously, if the Martian subsurface is warm enough, any buried water will be in liquid form and not ice.
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"The Martian," Andy Weir If I was really stranded on a desert island, this novel would be good to have.
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This "workspace" will be analyzed by mission scientists so InSight knows where to place the instruments on the Martian surface.
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OSSINING Summer Film Series: "The Martian" (2015), directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig.
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Unlike Matt Damon in "The Martian," Pitt isn't "sciencing the sh—" out of anything to navigate his way back home.
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OSSINING Summer Film Series: "The Martian" (27511), directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and Kristen Wiig.
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Space adventure "The Martian" was also nominated six times, with Ridley Scott for director and Matt Damon as leading actor.
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As the rover descended through the Martian sky, it needed to deploy its its parachutes at just the right time.
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Dunes and ripples are formed by sedimentary processes, which means ancient signatures of them can be preserved in Martian rock.
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It's conceivable (but extremely unlikely) that a laissez-faire attitude toward interplanetary contamination could lead to Martian bugs invading Earth.
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Factoring in China's new vehicle, it looks like the next decade of Martian surface exploration will be busy, and diverse.
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Unfortunately, during its descent to the Martian surface, the lander lost contact with Earth, and was never heard from again.
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Today, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a new 22012-degree video, giving you a virtual tour of the Martian surface.
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By moving around your smartphone, you can get a high quality 360-degree look at Curiosity and its Martian surroundings.
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Here are some of the highlights from the challenge, with a special focus on the seemingly insurmountable Martian landscape section.
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Musk's sincere belief is that this system can and should ferry up to a million Martian colonists by the 19403s.
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To find out, we asked Andy Weir, the author of the bestselling realistic sci-fi novel-turned film The Martian.
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The study also was the first to tie a specific layer of Martian ice with a specific period of time.
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The United Arab Emirates, for its first planetary science mission, is sending an orbiter that is to study Martian weather.
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How would we know if the life we find on Mars is truly Martian, or something that's come from Earth?
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One, "Memory Hearth," depicts an encounter between a future version of Superman (from the 853rd century) and the Martian Manhunter.
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It consists of layer upon layer of sedimentary rock, which offer an easy-to-read history book of Martian geology.
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A decade and a half ago, three teams of scientists reported that they had detected methane in the Martian atmosphere.
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It even spotted the Martian version of a solar eclipse, as the planet's moons, Deimos and Phobos, traversed the sun.
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That geology and the chemistry of the site act as a good analog for the Martian surface, the researchers said.
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Japan's space agency, JAXA, announced today that the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) project had officially moved into the development phase.
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A Los Alamitos school is using a PG edition of the book "The Martian" to teach physics, astronomy and chemistry.
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Image: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSISA new image of dunes on the Martian north pole looks a lot like a candy bar.
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It will be able to peek beneath the surface and study Martian geology, looking for rock, ice and boulder layers.
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Scientists in this case used the magnetometer to find a deep, conductive region below the Martian surface, according to NatGeo.
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Last year, "The Revenant" and "The Martian" were the Globes' best picture winners; both lost to "Spotlight" at the Oscars.
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"We found microbes adapted to high salt levels, similar to what may be expected in the Martian subsurface," Pointing said.
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The HFPA actually amended its rules after "The Martian" criticism, saying that dramas with comedic overtones should compete as dramas.
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Lady Trieu is also responsible for the Martian phone booths — so perhaps there's a connection there between her and Manhattan.
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Although Phobos does not completely eclipse the sun, the Martian satellite does block it enough to momentarily darken the sky.
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Now some 2960 miles (45 kilometers) from its original, NASA-trash-covered landing site, Opportunity continues to provide a wealth of scientific data about Mars, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote in a blog post:A Martian "sol" lasts about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and a Martian year lasts nearly two Earth years.
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After making a retro-rocket-assisted soft landing on the Martian surface, this crew would begin constructing habitats and a propellant plant that would allow for the refueling of spacecraft to launch back to Earth, closing the transportation loop and allowing for regular transit to and from the Martian surface aboard the reusable spacecraft.
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Opportunity's solar panels covered in Martian dust / Image courtesy of NASA Opportunity's solar panels covered in Martian dust / Image courtesy of NASA Luckily, a surprising thing happened: every once in a while, whirling columns of air, or "dust devils," swept over the rover and cleaned off the coating of dust from the solar panels.
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