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Mars: is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. In English, Mars carries a name of the Roman god of war, and is often referred to as the "Red Planet" because the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.The days and seasons are likewise comparable to those of Earth, because the rotational period as well as the tilt of the rotational axis relative to the ecliptic plane are very similar. Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano and second-highest known mountain in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons in the Solar System.
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NOV 01, 2017
Space & Astronomy
With Mars being as captivating as it is, it’s not surprising that space agencies have put as much time and effort
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is useful, but NASA won't be using it for space research forever. Instead, NASA aims to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Mars is one of our closest planetary neighbors, and yet we still have so much to learn about it. One of the questions th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Videos
SpaceX his hell-bent on sending humans to Mars, but so is one of the commercial space company's most significant competi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Videos
SpaceX quickly became popular because of their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely blasts off from the launch pad to send e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA and space agencies from all around the world share the eventual goal of pushing humanity’s footprint far beyo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Through the Human Research Program (HRP), NASA wants to find the safest ways to move humans through space.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
An ongoing problem for NASA, SpaceX, and other entities involved with space travel, is packing as much equipment as poss
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Space exploration and the related sciences surrounding our universe are both growing interests for nations around the wo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China is looking to expand its space program extensively within just the next few years. Not only does the nation expect
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Today, Mars is a dry place, but it wasn’t always like that. Concentrated river deposits throughout the red planet&
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
With only a few decades to come before NASA wants to start putting humankind on Mars to study it in person, the space ag
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s got a plethora of landers, orbiters, and rovers studying the Martian surface for clues about its environmen
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2017
Videos
Earlier this month, SpaceX completed a successful test fire of the engine that will power the commercial space company's
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The longstanding question of whether we’re alone in the universe brings up a stressing amount of follow-up questio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 04, 2017
Videos
Humans have explored the solar system for decades with various kinds of spacecraft. Some were designed to orbit the Eart
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 02, 2017
Immunology
If you have an autoimmune disease, your risk of heart disease automatically goes up. From the Hospital del Mar Medical R
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you were to observe the South pole of Mars, you would see lots of dark spider-shaped landforms known as araneiforms.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard