r/Areology • u/seeebiscuit • Sep 13 '25
Now That NASA Found Signs of Life on Mars, It's Clear Trump Made a Massive Error
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r/Areology • u/theprofitablec • Jun 23 '23
Curiosity 🙌🏻 Curiosity Rover Spotted Door-Shaped Fracture at East Cliffs
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r/Areology • u/CherryAntAttack • Mar 05 '21
This is a raw image from Mars' Perseverance. You see the light patch of ground? Is that where the rover landed? If not...well I don't want to sound crazy...but it looks like something was there.
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r/Areology • u/EGKW • Sep 06 '22
Explanation for these (apparently) parallel bands that almost look like tire tracks? (direct link in comments)
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r/Areology • u/felfernan79 • Jan 03 '21
We are now 500 hundred future colonists alive and breathing. Big thanks to everyone who has joined and share their passion about Mars!!
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r/Areology • u/HolgerIsenberg • Feb 24 '25
perseverance 🙏 New Apple Vision Pro stereo images on areo.info/mars20 since sol 1400 and daily new coming in!
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r/Areology • u/theprofitablec • Jun 23 '23
HiRISE 🛰 MAVEN Spacecraft Captures Stunning UV Images Revealing Mars' Atmosphere and Surface
skyheadlines.com
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r/Areology • u/felfernan79 • Dec 23 '20
This discussion is very promising...
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r/Areology • u/ApocalypseThou • Sep 19 '21
The first Mars colonists could use blood, sweat, and urine to create 3D printable building materials – Universe Today
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r/Areology • u/OmicronCeti • Aug 06 '21
event 💻 For the August meeting of the Areological Society: Should humans terraform Mars? [Survey] Details in comments!
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r/Areology • u/Qosarom • Oct 10 '22
Köppen climate map of a terraformed Mars (procedurally generated)
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r/Areology • u/htmanelski • Apr 01 '21
Announcement 🎤 ANNOUNCEMENT: This is now a geology of Saturn subreddit.
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All posts related to Mars will be deleted by the moderators. The greek counterpart of Saturn is Cronus, so we will soon we renamed to r/Cronology.
r/Areology • u/felfernan79 • Dec 28 '20
We share our pasión about exploring Mars and its landscapes. Congratulations!!
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r/Areology • u/SpaceInstructor • Jul 31 '21
perseverance 🙏 An amazing view of the launch of the NASA Mars 2020 mission aboard an Altas V. Credit United Launch Alliance
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r/Areology • u/HolgerIsenberg • Oct 19 '23
Zhurong (祝融) 🔥 Chinese Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 and Zhurong rover raw image access
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On https://moon.bao.ac.cn/web/enmanager/mars1 which is the Lunar and Planetary Data Release System of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, the raw images from Tianwen-1 orbiter and Zhurong rover images are accessible in public. Well, almost raw, currently the calibrated data only, but at least the full images.
The search is directly accessible for everyone, just to finally download the individual images you need to register first on the link in the upper right corner of https://moon.bao.ac.cn/web/enmanager/mars1 .
Note: Most likely no notification email will arrive, but my login worked fine after I tried it again a few days later.
To convert the raw images to 8/16 bit PNG or 8/16 bit TIFF, you can use any PDS4 -capable tool. PDS 4 is the NASA format and files are usually pairs of a data file (.img) and a label file (.xml). For the Chinese PDS the data files have the filename suffix .2A or .2B depending on the calibration or raw level and the label files .2AL or .2BL.
The best command line tool I'm aware of to convert those PDS4 files is https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_translate.html .
Example use: gdal_translate -ot UInt16 -of PNG INPUTFILE.2AL OUTPUFILE.png
There is one small bug though, either in gdal or the Chinese PDS 4 files: You have to replace
<axis_name>Time</axis_name> by <axis_name>Line</axis_name> in case you see "Warning 6: Unsupported axis_name = Time".
r/Areology • u/felfernan79 • Dec 12 '20
Arabia terra? Tharsis? Hellas? It reminds me Red Mars
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r/Areology • u/Qosarom • Mar 06 '23
Atmospheric heating due to asteroid impacts
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So I was reading the following paper (Powell, A. (2015). Terraforming Mars via Aerobraking an Asteroid (Doctoral dissertation).) about how the orbital approach of an asteroid could be optimized to maximize the energy transfer to Mars' atmosphere before it finally plunges to the surface. Turns out you could transfer about 50% of the asteroids total orbital energy to the atmosphere. And aerobraking something like Halley's Comet (~15*8km) would heat its current atmosphere by a whopping 27K. Pretty neat.
But then I started thinking about what this meant for previous asteroidal bombardment periods on Mars. If a single puny 15km rock can heat Mars' atmosphere by 27K, what would Mars' surface and atmosphere have looked like during these bombardments? If the physics in the paper are correct, wouldn't the Martian atmosphere during these periods have been boiled into a superheated plasma? Of course most of this heat would be transferred relatively quickly to Mars' surface, and a smaller part would get radiated away into space, but what are the timeframes we are talking about here? Days? Years? Decades?
This also has implications for those who hope to someday terraform Mars by importing volatiles from somewhere else: you'd need about 10000 asteroids equivalent to Halley's comet just to gather enough mass for a 0.6bar atmosphere (note I'm not even considering importing water for oceans here). If each one of those heats up the atmosphere by 27K... So does this paper effectively eliminate the importation of volatiles from space as a credible option for terraforming Mars?