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Perseverance Makes First-Ever Manufactured Oxygen on Mars Twitter 0 comments Although Mars is essentially humanity’s only option for a “Planet B” in this lifetime, it’s still quite a fixer-upper. One key breakthrough necessary for making the Red Planet reasonably hospitable, for example, is the ability to produce breathable oxygen from local atmosphere. That sounds very sci-fi, but as of April 20, 2021, it’s undeniable reality thanks to NASA’s Perseverance rover. Gizmodo reported on the breakthrough experiment Perseverance performed on the surface of Mars. It comes as another f...

Cincinnati Zoo introduces 4-week-old penguin chicks Mars and Rover Cincinnati Zoo and last updated 2021-02-19 14:11:09-05 CINCINNATI — Two of the Cincinnati Zoo’s little blue penguin chicks have out-of-this-world names straight from the red planet. The zoo introduced Rover and Mars, who hatched four weeks ago, on Friday. The names were inspired by NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars Thursday afternoon. Perseverance will spend the next several years exploring Mars, taking samples and helping scientists investigate the possibility of past life 128 million ...

Mars has fascinated us for millennia. Almost from the time astronomers first turned their telescopes on the planet shining in the night sky, we've imagined life there. Unlike our other planetary neighbor, Venus, which remains shrouded in cloudy mystery, the red planet has invited speculation and exploration. Since the 1960s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union and, later, Russia and Japan, have launched spacecraft destined to land on or orbit Mars. The successful missions, like the very first Mars flyby in 1964 by the U.S. Mariner 4, have provided a treasure trove of data and, of course, introduced...

In the morning, face east where the sun will rise and very close to the horizon. If the clouds let you, you should see Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn.

Spark up a love for space in your child at this landmark moment in UAE history 1 of 17 FIRSTLY, WHAT IS THE HOPE PROBE?: The Hope probe is an unmanned spacecraft equipped with several scientific instruments that the UAE has sent up into space to study the planet Mars. Image Credit: AFP 2 of 17 WHAT WILL IT DO? It will collect scientific data on the Red Planet’s atmosphere and weather, to help discover whether there could have ever been real-life Martians living there – or if there might even be life forms living there now! ...