The International-Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission is a proposed Mars orbiter being developed by NASA in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red...
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Water ice on Mars likeliest areas (December 10, 2019) Mars – Utopia Planitia Almost all water on Mars today exists as ice, though it also exists in small...
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to Earth's, including periodic ice ages, there are also important differences, such as much lower thermal inertia. Mars' atmosphere has a scale height...
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The planet Mars has two permanent polar ice caps. During a pole's winter, it lies in continuous darkness, chilling the surface and causing the deposition...
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Areography (redirect from Map of Mars)
features across Mars and their cartographic representations. In April 2023, The New York Times reported an updated global map of Mars based on images...
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Kieffer, H. H. (2000). "Annual Punctuated CO2 Slab-Ice and Jets on Mars". International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration (1057): 93. Bibcode:2000mpse...
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MAVEN (redirect from Mars Scout 2013)
MAVEN is a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars to study the loss of that planet's atmospheric gases to space, providing insight into the history of the planet's...
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Later orbiters, such as Mars Global Surveyor, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, have mapped Mars in higher resolution with...
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Figure 2 for the geologic map of Mars Beagle 2 Curiosity ※ Deep Space 2 Rosalind Franklin ⁂ InSight Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity...
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Mars Colonization of Mars Human mission to Mars Life on Mars List of artificial objects on Mars List of missions to Mars Mars landing Mars race Mars rover...
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sites for NASA's Mars landers, discovered pure water ice in new craters and further evidence that water once flowed on the surface on Mars. The spacecraft...
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Phoenix (spacecraft) (redirect from Mars Phoenix)
Martian surface, and the only plausible source of hydrogen on Mars would be water in the form of ice, frozen below the surface. The mission was therefore funded...
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The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. They are irregular in shape. Both were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall in August 1877 and are...
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The atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95%), molecular nitrogen (2.85%), and argon...
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explains many ice-rich features on Mars. Studies have shown that when the tilt of Mars reaches 45 degrees from its current 25 degrees, ice is no longer...
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The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as Mangalyaan (Sanskrit: Maṅgala 'Mars', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), was a space probe orbiting Mars since...
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The Emirates Mars Mission (Arabic: مشروع الإمارات لاستكشاف المريخ, romanized: mašrū' al-Imārāt l-āstikšāf al-Murīkh) is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency...
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Hydrogen Mapper, or LunaH-Map, was one of the 10 CubeSats launched with Artemis 1 on 16 November 2022. Along with Lunar IceCube and LunIR, LunaH-Map will...
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Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity Perseverance ※ Phoenix Schiaparelli EDM Sojourner Spirit Zhurong Viking 1 Viking 2 In 1999, Mars...
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Colonization or settlement of Mars is the theoretical migration of humans to Mars and the establishment of long-term human presence on the planet. The...
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Curiosity (rover) (redirect from Mars rover curiosity)
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was...
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geological processes on Mars. Determine the composition, distribution and physical properties of surface minerals, rocks and ice. Determine the global topography...
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Martian soil (redirect from Mars dust settling)
inertia, with areal fractions consistent with the Viking Infrared Thermal Mapper (IRTM) data, and immobile under current aeolian (wind) conditions. Consequently...
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Perseverance (rover) (redirect from Mars 2020 rover)
Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by...
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The history of Mars observation is about the recorded history of observation of the planet Mars. Some of the early records of Mars' observation date back...
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Tianwen-1 (redirect from 2020 Chinese Mars Mission)
foreign embassies and international organizations to witness hovering and obstacle avoidance test for the Mars Lander of China's first Mars exploration mission...
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S2CID 226299879. Martel, Linda M. V. (January 31, 2005). "Recent Activity on Mars: Fire and Ice". Planetary Science Research Discoveries. Retrieved July 11, 2006...
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Zhurong (rover) (redirect from Chinese Mars rover)
Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融; pinyin: Zhùróng) is a Chinese rover on Mars, the country's first to land on another planet after it previously landed two rovers...
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Mars may contain ores that would be very useful to potential colonists. The abundance of volcanic features together with widespread cratering are strong...
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