Nasa Mars rover makes detailed crater image

[Joe2608]

This is amazing. Just imagine where space travel will be in 50 years time, it's exciting!

[The Hammer]

There is no life outside of our planet.

You guys are just being decieved by them.

Simple life is likely very common in the universe, on billions of planets. There's been simple life forms on earth for over 3 billion years.

Complex life is probably rare, though.

And intelligent life is very very rare, but it's likely out there somewhere.

[New England]

this thread is big time.


look at those f#ckin rocks and dunes
they're on mars


#murrica

[New England]

Simple life is likely very common in the universe, on billions of planets. There's been simple life forms on earth for over 3 billion years.

Complex life is probably rare, though.

And intelligent life is very very rare, but it's likely out there somewhere.

one of the more popular theories today for the introduction of life on earth is that it was brought here in a most basic form inside the ice on a meteor.


given the size of the universe, it's starting to be viewed as laughable to assume that earth is totally unique in it's ability to sustain or produce life.

[MARKBNLV]

looks like nevada lol

Thats what i thought looks like the old dump near sunrise mt.

[MARKBNLV]

If you can actually grasp the fact that picture is of another world (which is hard), then you realize how unfuckingbelievable that picture is.

It is amazing and who knows maybe in the future we can set up a station there and explore into space even further.

[RichCCFC]

How will we make the atmosphere suitable for us?

Trust me we can't live there. Building a Space Ship on Earth is one thing, but living on a planet is another.

I know the Moon has 30 minute Earth Quakes because of no water to dissipate them. I am not sure on Mars but again it would be crazy long if it did have them.

Can we live on Mars?

Mars is not as close to Earth as Venus is, but it probably is the only planet in our solar system that we can colonize. But living there won’t be simple.
Mars is poorly suited for human habitation. There’s some ice at the poles and perhaps some water in underground repositories. Gravity is only 38 percent as strong as on Earth. The atmosphere is thin and consists mostly of carbon dioxide (95%). So colonists would have to either take air from Earth or make air on Mars. Plants efficiently separate the oxygen bound to carbon and therefore can make air we can breathe, so colonists should take plants along.

The Martian atmosphere is too thin to hold oxygen, which would just escape to space. So the plants would have to be cultivated in greenhouses and the oxygen they produce kept in flasks.

Mars has a very weak magnetic field, and its atmosphere offers little protection against radiation from space. So the Martian colonists would have to build radiation protection into their houses and wear thick suits. Unlike Earth, where most incoming meteorites burn up in the atmosphere, many meteorites crash dangerously onto the surface of Mars.

The Martian weather is awful. It’s cold: the average temperature of the southern hemisphere is minus 60 degrees Celsius; even at the equator, it’s seldom over zero. Winds are fierce and blow at speeds of several hundred kilometres an hour, and storms can last for months. The wind whirls up fine dust that penetrates everything and sticks to all surfaces, which literally would toss sand in the gears of vital mechanical and electronic equipment.

Today, there are no concrete, approved plans for sending people to Mars. The earliest date mentioned in official papers is 2019, which would be 50 years after the first Moon landing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars

[Xyei]

given the size of the universe, it's starting to be viewed as laughable to assume that earth is totally unique in it's ability to sustain or produce life.

It really is, given the size of the universe and the fact that simple life can sustain much harsher conditions than our complex life forms. There's no telling how simple life forms could evolve in other parts of the universe.

[New England]

It is amazing and who knows maybe in the future we can set up a station there and explore into space even further.

we wont be leaving the solar system with anything manned while you and i are alive. even the closest stars are a few lightyears away. i'd be shocked if human beings can ever make it that far. by that stage we'll have almost infinite capacities to destroy each other and the planet.


thats 300 million meters per second for an entire year, or almost 700 million mph, for an entire year. that's a long way.

proxima centauri, the closest neighbor to our sun, is more than four lightyears away.

getting there in a manned spacecraft would be a greater undertaking than the sum of ever other human undertaking.



that nasa even made it to mars is beyond me. hats off to those hard working sob's.

[John Barron]

can't believe we're looking at a different planet... it looks so familiar and earth-like. crazy!