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Earth to Mars (or reverse) Hohmann transfer orbits for the 21st Century
Is anybody aware of a nice graphic showing for the next 20-30 years or maybe the rest of the 21st century, the time periods for Earth to Mars launches? They occur about every two years, but I'm ...
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Is there any official Chinese website where we can follow the actions of the Zhurong rover?
Zhurong, China's first Mars rover, soft landed on Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021. Coordinates of the landing site are: 25.1⁰ N 109.7⁰ E The planned operational lifetime is only 90 sols. (Why should ...
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A retracted paper about Chlorophyll on Mars?
Recently, Gilbert Levin, one of the experimenters behind the Viking labeled release experiment, wrote this letter to the editors of Science. He makes this claim of particular interest Chlorophyll was ...
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Predictive simulation of gait on Mars?
In the Journal of Biomechanics, Volume 45, Issue 7, 30 April 2012, Pages 1293-1298, Predictive simulation of gait at low gravity reveals skipping as the preferred locomotion strategy (PDF file of an ...
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Are the Mars elevation data publicly available?
Is it possible to get the data on Mars terrain somewhere? Something like SRTM data for Mars. Ideally in a format like this: X,Y,E where X and Y are coordinates ...
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What's the current timeline for NASA's Mars orbiter laser communications?
Dr. Jim Green, Director, NASA Planetary Science Division, mentioned during his "The Martian": Science Fiction & Science Fact talk for the 18th Annual International Mars Society Convention (you can ...
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