It's All Random
India’s first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter (Mangalyaan) crossed the distance of the moon’s orbit this morning, making it the farthest object sent into space by India. A few days ago, the spacecraft looked back, and sent a postcard back home. This is the first image of Earth taken by the Mars Color Camera …
These beautiful images of the irregular and weird landscapes on Mars have been captured by the HiRISE probe. Mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE has sent back nearly 30,000 images of our red neighbor, some of them from the expected alien landscapes of a different world. A selection of 150 of these images has been collected into a book titled This is Mars.
German firm ZA Architects has come up with a concept idea for the colonization of Mars. Since the first step to building a colony there is to have habitable areas, or at least shelters, the concept suggests that such shelters or caves be built underground. The idea is to send minimal resources from Earth, except solar powered robotic machines that would then get to work building hexagonal shaped structures on the red planet.
South Pole of Mars is a region of permanently frozen ice, that happens to get additional layers of frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice) every winter. As the summer progresses, much of the dry ice goes away, but the water stays. Bill Dunford rendered this image of the Martian South Pole using various images captured by …
It might be a while before us humans get to set foot on the red planet, but thanks to modern technology, we can take a good look at it as if we were standing there. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together 407 images captured by Curiosity to create a panorama that gives you the same view you would have standing next to Curiosity on Mars. The panorama is a full 90,000 x 45,000 pixels and the images used have been slightly retouched.
Mars, as we know it looks like a barren red planet apparently ignorant of all the fantastical theories us Eearthlings may have of it. Software engineer Kevin Gill decided to visualize what Mars would look like, if it were plush with water bodies and atmosphere. The result apparently, would be strikingly similar to the Earth.
It’s been a few days since NASA’s Curiosity rover put a step on Mars. The video here shows the rover’s descent on the red planet, as a full HD Video.
This image makes it very clear, Mars is the naughty boy of the solar system, we don’t know any other planet who’d draw craters like that. Captured by the HiRISE camera, these craters were most probably formed as the red planet was hit by two meteors, simultaneously. It is more likely that a meteor split …
