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Honeybee Robotics has a plan to build massive lighthouses on the moon to provide light, power and communications infrastructure as part of a plan to develop a lunar economy.

Honeybee Robotics has a plan to build massive lighthouses on the moon to provide light, power and communications infrastructure as part of a plan to develop a lunar economy.

The present day habitability of Mars is an area of research that has exploded hugely in the last decade, to the extent that its often hard to keep track of everything thats going on. This is by way of background material for my other articles on habitability of Mars.

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Mars has fascinated our species for thousands of years. Observable by the naked eye, this planet is one of the most studied celestial bodies of all time.

The Atacama Desert is by far the driest and oldest desert on Earth, showing a unique combination of environmental extremes (extreme dryness, the highest UV radiation levels on Earth and highly saline and oxidizing soils), explaining why the Atacama has been largely investigated as a Mars analog model for almost twenty years. Based on the source and the amount of water available for life and its analogy with Mars, two ecosystems are of interest in the Atacama; its Coastal Range and the much drier...

In fact, NASA has massaged the audio sample above to help listeners hear Ingenuity. Sounds below 80Hz and above 90Hz have been turned down in volume so that the 84Hz hum of the tiny computer-controlled crafts rotors can be heard. A small team at mission control has been experimenting with Ingenuity’s limits for about a month. Over that time, the small autonomous aircraft has performed a series of flights at increasing heights and speeds. The flight data is uploaded to Perseverance and sent ba...

Mars rover captures first sounds recorded on another planet Sophie Lewis © NASA/JPL-Caltech 022221-rover1.jpg NASAs Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars less than one week ago, has beamed back the first-ever audio recordings from the surface of the red planet. NASA released the audio clips Monday, along with never-before-seen video footage of the rover landing last Thursday, and the most sophisticated images yet taken of Mars. Along with 25 onboard cameras, the rover also...

While numerous missions have returned photos from Mars, none have captured any sound from the Red Planet million of miles away.

You'll want to use your headphones for these clips.