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NASA Begins Effort To Find Landing Sites for Human Mars Missions

With the first NASA human mission to Mars still at least two decades away, the space agency and planetary scientists have started looking for potential landing sites, a search motivated by both long-term planning requirements and urgency to take advantage of spacecraft already there.

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micx3098d ago

Someone has watched "Martian" at NASA.

dcbronco3097d ago

They should just land next to the small town Space X will have built there by the time they arrive.

Stringerbell3097d ago

So long as Musk doesn't nuke Mars first =/

dcbronco3097d ago

His point of nuking it was to cause a greenhouse effect that would help terraform it wasn't it? That is something that would make it happen sooner rather than later. Nuke it now, send robots and habitat equipment and when he sends people in seven to ten years they'll have something to work with. I don't have a lot of faith in NASA if only because they are tied to the morons in Congress. My moneys on
Musk.

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James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

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NASA radar images show stadium-sized asteroid tumbling by Earth during flyby

The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).

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Radar images reveal damage on Europe's doomed ERS-2 satellite during final orbits

Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.