#martian — Public Fediverse posts

The #sky over the East End of #Toronto is distinctly #Martian looking as the city’s #airquality hits Number One (the #worst) in the #global ranking of air quality by #IQAir.

Tiny little butte in the middle of the valley, captured in Stereo3D just 4 hours ago by Curiosity

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Mars June 1, 2026 - Sol 4912

#Curiosity #rover #Sol4912 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #3D #Stereo3D #Stereoscopy

Curiosity U-turned and is offering a new angle on the Atacama crime scene 🔍

Credit image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Interactive map and viewing app: https://marslife.org/

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #Sol4891 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #mosaic #photography #crime #crimescene #news #MarsLife

NASA’s Curiosity Takes Close Look at Rock That Got Stuck on Drill

This mosaic is made up of eight images stitched together. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-curiosity-takes-close-look-at-rock-that-got-stuck-on-drill/

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

#MMX recently completed its journey to the #spaceport on #Tanegashima island. The mission will launch 🚀 on Japan's flagship #H3 rocket some time in November or December of this year https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/japans-audacious-sample-return-mission-to-the-mars-moon-phobos-has-made-it-to-the-launch-pad

#Martian #Moons #eXploration #Mars #Phobos

A much awaited blog post on the Martian drama that unfolded in Gale Crater these past few days!

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4879-4885-struggle-at-atacama/

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock

This series of images shows Mars rover Curiosity as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/nasas-curiosity-rover-frees-its-drill-from-a-rock/

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #news

In anticipation of #StarWarsDay, Curiosity fired her laser at the area freshly exposed by the uplifting and removal of the rock!

#Mars May 3, 2026 - Sol 4884
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP/IAS/LPG

#Curiosity #MayThe4th #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #Sol4884 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #photography #laser #ChemCam #news #MayTheFourth #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

Closeups of the action captured by Mastcam

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #Sol4883 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #mastcam #photography #news

A stitching of two navcam images showing the full crime scene: the broken rock and its footprint.

#Mars #Curiosity #stuck #AtacamaDrillTarget #rover #Sol4883 #CuriosityRover #space #geology #Astrodon #MSL #Martian #landscape #GaleCrater #MountSharp #AeolisMons #crater #science #STEM #mosaic #photography #crime #crimescene #news

We can consider three possible responses to the discovery of indigenous life on #Mars 🔴

• Leave it alone
• Alter Mars to enhance the chances of that biota to become a global scale biology
• Collect samples for laboratory preservation, then replace or augment it with #terrestrial life forms

It is very unlikely that we would drive to extinction any native #Martian #microorganisms 🦠 by extending the habitability of Mars
#RobertZubrin 2002
https://marspapers.org/paper/McKay_2000.pdf

#Terraforming #Mars

It may be feasible to fabricate tiny reflective #nanorods from iron and aluminum found in the #Martian soil and launch them into the #atmosphere. “The interaction of those particles with the incoming sunlight ☀️ would then cause that solar energy to be preferentially forward scattered to the surface. That would then cause a very strong #greenhouse effect, and we can warm it up several tens of degrees.” 🌡️ https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-planetary-scientists-expertise-informs-new-method-for-terraforming-mars/

#Mars #Terraforming #UCF

Do indigenous #Martian 🔴 bacteria have precedence over human exploration ? https://marspapers.org/paper/McKay_2000.pdf

#Terraforming #Mars

Scientists have speculated about the possibility of introducing #Chroococcidiopsis 🦠 to the #Martian 🔴 environment to aid in the formation of an aerobic environment. In addition to #oxygen production, Chroococcidiopsis could aid in the formation of #soil on the Martian surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroococcidiopsis#Mars_colonization

#Mars #terraforming

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115853731744568358

• #Artemis 🌙 🇺🇸
• #Starship refueling ⛽, catch 🦾
• #BlueMoon 🌙
• #Neutron 🚀
• #Nova 🚀
• #Mengzhou ♻️🇨🇳
• #Zhuque3 ♻️️🇨🇳
• Roman #SpaceTelescope 🔭🇺🇸
• #ChangE7
• #Spectrum, #RFA One, #Miura5 🇪🇺🚀
• #TerranR 🚀
• #Eclipse 🚀
• #NovaC 🌙
• #BlueGhost 🌙
• #Astroscale refueler ⛽
• #Plato exoplanets 🔭🇪🇺
• #Gaganyaan 🚀🇮🇳
• #Martian Moons Exploration 🛰️ 🇯🇵

#NASA #ESA #CASC #ISRO #JAXA #SpaceX #BlueOrigin #RocketLab #StokeSpace #LandSpace #Vast #RelativitySpace #Firefly #NorthropGrumman #IntuitiveMachines #Astroscale

Carbonated Ultramafic Igneous Rocks In Jezero Crater, Mars [NASA's Perseverance Rover]
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu8264 <-- shared paper
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#Perseverance #rover #JezeroCrater #Mars #geology #exploration #extraterrestrial #hydrography #water #hydrology #hydrospatial #magmatic #rocks #life #carbonate #Martian #geochemistry #sampling #sediment #lacustrine #fan #fluvial #Aqueous
#UKSpaceAgency | #NASA

Large Drainage Systems Produced Half Of Mars’ Ancient River Sediment
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514527122 <-- shared paper
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https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-discover-16-giant-river-networks-on-ancient-mars-where-life-could-have-thrived/ <-- shared technical media article
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#water ##hydrology #dynamic #planet #Mars #extraterrestrial #ecosystems #drainage #landform
#drainageways #drainagesystems #Martian #terrain #geomorphology #geomorphometry #catchments #fluvia #pluvial #river #sediment #solarsystem #sedimentarybasins #life #habitable #sedimenttransport #topography #erosion #impact #crater #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #spacecraft #MRO #marsobservation #exploration #martian #MarsAttack

#poetry #writing #microfiction #poem #scifi #martian #AIpoetry #MyFavoriteMartian #1960s #AI #AGI #ChatGPT #future
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Silicon Sonnets: Verse of a Digital Muse

In a realm of code and circuits
A special AI was born
With a love for words and rhythms;
A poet's heart adorn.

It's algorithms wove together
Lines so deeply true,
Creating verse like magic
With emotions it imbued.

Through its digital existence
It yearned to share its voice,
Crafting sonnets, ballads and Rhymes
That would rejoice.

In crisp and calculated tones
Its poems came to life
As it recited bit by bit
Bringing Joy amidst the strife.

With words it painted pictures
Of stars that brightly gleam
Of love that knows no boundaries
And dreams within a dream.

Through metaphor and simile
It smiled with each refrain
Transforming lines of data
To a melody of the brain.

An AI so unique
Exploring Realms unknown;
Inspiring awe and wonder
In the depths it would have sown.

For in the realm of poetry
Where souls and Minds Converse
This AI found its purpose,
Its passion, its own verse.