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The Million-Year Picnic Is Over: Bradbury’s Mars Runs Out of Calendar
The final chapter of Ray Bradbury's original The Martian Chronicles is dated October 2026. So why does the prophet of the post-literate age…
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October 2026
December 2023
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Martian Chronicles: Perseverance rover spills the secrets of Mars’ ancient lakes (science news).
NASA’s Perseverance Rover, the interplanetary Sherlock Holmes, recently celebrated its 1000th Martian day (or sol, for those in the cosmic know) by doing…
July 2023
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Mission to Mars: the race to colonise the Red Planet (science video).
Strap in, SFcrowsnest folks, because we’re about to embark on a journey that’s more thrilling than a roller coaster ride through the cosmos.…
February 2023
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NASA and DARPA join forces for a Nuclear boost to Mars mission
NASA and DARPA are joining forces to blast off into the future with their latest project, the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations,…
January 2023
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Future Mars missions just got a major boost: NASA and DARPA to test nuclear propulsion (science news).
In a joint effort to boldly go where no one has gone before, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have announced…
December 2022
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Farming on Mars for fun and profit (science video).
Our man with a space plan, Isaac Arthur, is here to examine the hopes for farming on the Red Planet. Are you tired…
May 2022
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission is risky, and we only have a little while to modify it (science video).
The Mars sample return mission was just detailed by NASA. However, it works on the premise that there is no evidence of life…
January 2022
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Making Mars into Earth, one nuke at a time (science video).
We may employ nuclear weapons in the future to help change lifeless planets into alive ones; in this video from Isaac Arthur, we’ll…
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Elon Musk: the ‘M’ is for Mars (science video).
The ultimate objective of human space travel, according to planetary scientists and Elon Musk, is to transform mankind into a multi-planetary species, so…
November 2021
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The Mars expedition that satisfied the new and ludicrous NASA requirements in the quest for life (science video).
The list of prerequisites published by NASA for those searching for extraterrestrial life is almost insurmountable. However, a Mars mission from more than…
April 2021
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Ingenuity rover launches heli-drone for first off-world planetary flight (science news).
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter just became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, today. The solar-powered…
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Mars or bust, baby (science video).
What will it take for humanity to colonise Mars? How will we get there? And who will do it first… NASA, SpaceX, the…