Some 28 miles (45 kilometers) wide, Jezero Crater sits on the western edge of Isidis Planitia, a giant impact basin just north of the Martian equator. Scientists have determined that 3.5 billion years ago the crater had its own river delta and was filled with water.

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Yet despite this, many questions remain unanswered. What caused the marks and scars on the planet’s surface? Someone who can answer that is Dr Michael Meyer. As lead scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Programme, he spent years observing and recording the Red Planet. Mars is very cold. The average temperature on Mars is minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit — way below freezing! Dr Meyer calls Mars’s red colour distinctive- easy to recognise because it’s different from everything else. But did you hear why it’s red in the first place, Sam? Often called the ‘Red Planet’, Mars has been in the news a lot recently with three separate missions being sent to explore the planet’s surface in 2021.

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On the subject of her being left alone (and she mostly is throughout the book), the supporting cast is actually quite large. Was it difficult to give the all of the other abductees/castaways enough space to intrigue readers while still letting Red fly solo for such long periods of time?

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Kilmer, Sizemore, Bratt and Moss make up the space team this time and they do give a slightly better or less wooden performance than the team in 'MTM', you do get more of a grounded feeling from the characters instead of the perfect all American poster boy vibe you got with Sinise and Robbins in 'MTM'. Stamp heads the team to really try and give the film some gravitas but good old Terence can't quite get there, in fact his performance is the most stale of bunch oddly enough, I don't think space fits him too well. This February 3, 2013, image provided by NASA shows a self portrait of the Mars rover, Curiosity. NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that may have teemed with microbes for tens of millions of years, far longer than scientists had imagined, new research suggests. Photograph by NASA, API'm joined today with Tina Seeger who's going to tell us a little bit about her role on the rover teams and why it's important. Over the subsequent decades, orbiters returned far more detailed data on the planet's atmosphere and surface, and finally dispelled the notion, widely held by scientists since the late 1800s, that Martian canals were built by an alien civilization. They also revealed some truly dramatic features: the small world boasts the largest volcanoes in the solar system, and one of the largest canyons yet discovered—a chasm as long as the continental United States. Dust storms regularly sweep over its plains, and winds whip up localized dust devils.

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Many other missions, both past and present, have produced amazing insights about the planet's history, and future planned missions should help continue this progress, according to The Planetary Society. NASA aims to send humans to explore the Red Planet by the late 2030s or early 2040s, according to Space.com. Is there life on Mars? A day on Mars lasts about 24.6 hours, or just a little longer than a day on Earth. Martian days are called sols — short for solar day — and there are 669.6 sols in a Martian year. Mars' axial tilt is also very similar to our planet's, at about 25 degrees (Earth's is 23.4 degrees), meaning Mars experiences seasons much like those on Earth. How many moons does Mars have? The power systemthat provides electricity and heat for Perseverance through its exploration of Jezero Crater is a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provided it to NASA through an ongoing partnership to develop power systems for civil space applications.Over the last century, everything we’ve learned about Mars suggests that the planet was once quite capable of hosting ecosystems—and that it might still be an incubator for microbial life today. The Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2 ( MEDLI2) sensor suite collected data about Mars’ atmosphere during entry, and the Terrain-Relative Navigation system autonomously guided the spacecraft during final descent. The data from both are expected to help future human missions land on other worlds more safely and with larger payloads. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. That means Earth and Jupiter are Mars’ neighboring planets. Although Red wants to be alone, she latches on to Goose a little bit, doesn't she? Is she just practical about recognizing that he knows the territory if nothing else. OK, Neil let’s recap the vocabulary from this programme on the Red Planet, Mars, starting with astronomer– someone who studies the stars, planets and moons in our universe.

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From its blood-like hue to its potential to sustain life, Mars has intrigued humankind for thousands of years. Learn how the red planet formed from gas and dust and what its polar ice caps mean for life as we know it. The rover chassis is home to three science instruments, as well. The Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment ( RIMFAX) is the first ground-penetrating radar on the surface of Mars and will be used to determine how different layers of the Martian surface formed over time. The data could help pave the way for future sensors that hunt for subsurface water ice deposits. But before we go on, I have another question which needs answering, Sam. The ancient Romans were also interested in Mars. They even considered the planet to be a god – but god of what? Was Mars the Roman god of:Red's foster home certainly isn't the worst place she could be. It's a beautiful old farmhouse somewhere in the mid-west, there are lots of kids her age, and her foster parents, the ironically named Fosters, are good people. Still, they obviously have their hands full. For Red, it just isn't where she wants to be, and, when you are in a place like that, no matter how ideal the situation, you look for ways out. The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55p.m. EST (12:55p.m. PST). And from all that we have learned from astrobiology, life is amazingly adaptable, but it still needs water. So that’s why water is the key. So, finding liquid water on Mars, whether or not it’s now or whether or not it’s in the past, tells you that you potentially have a habitableenvironment, some place that could support life and perhaps even Martian life. In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 became the first spacecraft to successfully operate on the planet’s surface, returning photos until 1982. They also conducted biological experiments on Martian soil that were designed to uncover signs of life in space—but their results were inconclusive, and scientists still disagree over how to interpret the data. Landing on Mars is always an incredibly difficult task and we are proud to continue building on our past success,” said JPL Director MichaelWatkins. “But, while Perseverance advances that success, this rover is also blazing its own path and daring new challenges in the surface mission. We built the rover not just to land but to find and collect the best scientific samples for return to Earth, and its incredibly complex sampling system and autonomy not only enable that mission, they set the stage for future robotic and crewed missions.”