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With Earth’s natural resources running out, people are looking to mineral-rich asteroids to meet demand.
Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
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We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?
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Credits:
Making a Magnetosphere for Mars.
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 342, May 12, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.
Editors:
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Inara TabirAdmin.
As a trans woman this is a dream I yearn for.
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While Insight may soon go offline, Mars decided to give it at least one last show, jolting the craft with a 5.0 magnitude marsquake.
In November 2018, NASA InSight landed in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars with the goal of studying the planet’s deep interior for the first time by using seismic signals to learn more about the properties of the planet’s crust, mantle, and core. Join us live at 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET/1800 UTC) on May 17 as agency leadership and mission team members highlight the spacecraft’s science accomplishments, share details on its power situation, and discuss its future.
Speakers:
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters.
Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Kathya Zamora Garcia, InSight deputy project manager, JPL
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
“Scientists suspect that a ”fifth force” may be at work in space. This force, which they believe is mediated by a hypothetical particle called a symmetron is responsible for creating invisible walls in space.
The walls aren’t necessarily like the walls of a room. Instead, they are more like barriers. And, they could help explain an intriguing part of space that has left astronomers scratching their heads for quite a while.
BGR.
Scientists may have found an explanation for the invisible walls in space that hold galaxies in orbit around larger galaxies.
Titan looks suspiciously like our own planet when you observe it. However, Saturn’s moon and our own Earth couldn’t be any more different. Where landscapes are made of silicate-based sediments on Earth, many believe Titan’s landscapes are made of solid organic compounds. As such, they should be much more fragile than Earth’s. A new study may have figured out how the landscapes on Titan came to be.
Sol 3466: Mast Camera (Mastcam)
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An interesting photo taken on Mars by NASA.
This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3,466 (2022−05−07 07:58:16 UTC).
They aren’t going backward — we’re just going forward. Our orbit to the Sun makes us closer to our large adult sons.