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Wednesday Morning Spice
03 May 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Australia bans vaping, Stallone back in Cliffhanger reboot, Sol Kerzner’s Fish River resort becomes gang wasteland, and Corpse found under Tibetan Hotel bed.
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SpaceX Has Some Serious Competition In The Race To Mars [Video]
20 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Two private space companies announced to the world that they’re collaborating on an ambitious joint venture to be the first commercial mission to Mars as soon as 2024.
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NASA’s Mars Lander Battled Martian Dust To Snap Its Final Selfie
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
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Worry For NASA After Ingenuity Helicopter And Perseverance Rover Lose Contact
10 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
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Most Powerful Camera Ever Sent To Another Planet Nailed This Mars Crater Shot [Video]
21 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The incredible HiRISE camera captured the coolest and most detailed shot of a Mars crater earlier this year.
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All The Ways Living On Mars Could Kill You
28 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
With freezing temperatures, radiation, and a non-breathable atmosphere to consider, one does not simply pitch a tent on Mars and get on with life as we know it.
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Here’s When Elon Musk Reckons We’ll Put A Human On Mars
18 Mar 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
SpaceX’s Starship, designed to take astronauts to the moon for NASA and eventually to Mars, hasn’t even made it into space yet.
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Real Video Tour Of Mars Is Quite Something
23 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
NASA’s Curiosity rover is puttering around on Mars trying to find signs of life, and in the meantime, has provided material for a new video of a 360-degree panoramic tour.
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These Odd Mars Photos Actually Have Straightforward Explanations
03 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s fun to speculate about the weird things that cameras have managed to capture on Mars and send back to Earth, but often there is a perfectly good, scientific explanation for it all.
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The ‘Billionaire Space Race’ Is Going To Get Wild
13 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Three of the world’s wealthiest people are trying to top each other with the most ambitious private space expeditions.
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Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Would Need To Overcome These Major Hurdles
26 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Travelling to Mars is an incredible feat, and while Elon Musk believes we can get there in the next decade, there are some serious obstacles to overcome.
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Four Key Factors To Make Life On Mars Sustainable
18 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Human survival on another planet, especially one like Mars, depends on finding solutions to four key factors.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Makes Mars History [Videos]
20 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Watch Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, make its first successful flight on the Red Planet.
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What A Self-Sufficient City On Mars For 250 000 People Could Look Like [Video]
09 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A cliff with a view of the Red Planet and protection from radiation form part of the concept for a self-sufficient city on Mars called Nüwa.
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They’ve Detected Some Rumbling From Deep Within Mars
07 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s been some mysterious rumbling coming from inside Mars. Scientists, with the help of the InSight Lander, are busy figuring out what it could mean.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Knows How To Nail A Selfie [Video]
31 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Curiosity has been rolling around on Mars since 2012, and apart from a few bumps along the way, is still sending back incredible images of the Red Planet.
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Perseverance’s First HD Pano Of Mars Is Not To Be Missed [Video]
08 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Perseverance and her ground team are going from strength to strength since her successful landing on Mars, with images flooding in from her advanced onboard cameras.
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SpaceX Starship Sticks The Landing, Before Things Go Horribly Wrong [Video]
04 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
SpaceX took one giant leap towards the next Moon mission, but there’s still a sizeable wrinkle that they need to iron out.
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NASA Hid A Secret Message In Perseverance’s Parachute
24 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
A few keen-eyed Redditors and Twitter users took a look at Perseverance’s parachute and picked up on something that most of us missed.
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First-Ever Footage Of A Mars Landing [Videos]
23 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
For the first time in history, NASA has managed to capture actual footage of a rover landing on Mars, which includes sounds from the Red Planet.
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More Pictures Of Mars As Perseverance Completes Successful Landing
19 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
After years of planning, and months of waiting for her to touch down on Mars, Perseverance is ready to start work on the Red Planet.
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Greta Thunberg Made A Tourism Ad For Mars, But With A Twist [Video]
18 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Greta Thunberg and her team filmed a satirical tourism video that is worth remembering as the Perseverance rover heads for Mars.
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NASA Prepares For “Seven Minutes Of Terror” Ahead Of Mars Landing [Video]
17 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
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Monkeys Playing ‘Mind Pong’ – Elon Musk’s Latest Interview Was Entertaining [Video]
01 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Sure, Elon Musk could use an interview to have a calm and rational discussion about his companies, or he could muse about monkeys playing mind Pong.
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SpaceX Landing Doesn’t Go Well – Explodes [Video]
10 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
We can all be relieved that Elon Musk’s Starship SN8 prototype wasn’t manned when it plummeted back to Earth.
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What It Takes To Be An Astronaut On The First Mars Mission [Video]
25 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The astronauts chosen for the first mission to Mars will need more than just the technical know-how to complete the mission successfully.
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Elon Musk Reckons Success Of Colonising Mars Depends On One Thing
21 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Musk recently spoke at the Mars Society’s annual conference, and said that projects to develop a Martian settlement were already underway.
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SpaceX’s Starman Just Cruised Past Mars In A Tesla
09 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Tesla Roadster, with its mannequin ‘pilot’ Starman, made its first close approach to Mars.
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The Southern African Connection With NASA’s Latest Mars Exploration [Video]
19 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is looking to make history by becoming the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another planet.
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Here’s What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Looking For On Mars [Videos]
30 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Rover is loaded up on Atlas 5 and ready to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Destination: Mars.
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