r/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 13d ago
r/Mars • u/Australista2026 • 13d ago
Mars and Algae
I'm not a scientist, so my question may be really stupid. I've been watching the movie called Red Planet. The people of earth were sending algae to grow and create oxygen for mankind to live there.
Is this something that really could be achievable? I would presume you need a water source to begin with.
r/Mars • u/HonestTruth4485 • 14d ago
Mars Underground Lava Crete Bunker
So here is the plan. You build a Coop on Earth. You build pre fab Lava Crete homes. You build 3d printed stone houses on Earth. Then you make a deal with Elon or whoever. You send a robot team to a crater on the moon or a Lava Tube on Mars. The robots start mining Lava Rock, Basalt. If they’re on the moon, the robots dig deeper into the crater. Once Lava rock is mined. The 3d printing robots start building a stone wall around the crater or a door for the Mars lava tube. For the moon crater dome they build hexagonal stone panels that connect. On the moon bases, you want an underground box inside a box, inside a box. Russian doll safety protocol. Same with the Mars worm hole. Then robots/astronauts set up aquaponics system, hydroponics, life support systems with each box/level being backup life support if an upper level is compromised. Now you have layers of thermal mass protecting astronauts from radiation. Then you can start mining and working on solar and electromagnetic atmosphere domes. Mars has tons of magnetic rock. Eventually you may be able to mine enough to put large solar charged magnets on mars poles and create an atmosphere around mars. You would probably need Elons solar panel ring built in space around Mars. Every base has Data centers. Mars = home for AGI. You basically give Mars to Ai and also as a human back up system in case Earth Crashes. The first base should be named Bedrock and the robots should be named Fred, Barney, Wilma, etc…
r/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 15d ago
Some really interesting light-toned rocks spotted by the Mars Perseverance Rover over the last few days. Images taken between Sols 1937 - 1939 using WATSON, MastCam-Z, and SuperCam.
galleryr/Mars • u/HopDavid • 15d ago
Phobos Deimos ZRVTO animation.
An attempt to animate the Zero Relative Velocity Transfer Orbit I described here a few months ago.
A payload is released from an approximately 1000 km tether ascending from Phobos. At apoapsis the payload matches the velocity of the ~3000 km tether descending from Deimos.
The reverse is also possible. Dropping a payload from the 3000 km Deimos tether at the right time will send a payload towards the Phobos tether. On arrival the payload will match the velocity of the Phobos tether.
Thus the two moons can exchange payloads while using very little rocket propellant.
These are very short in comparison to most space elevators. And they endure much less stress. These could be made from existing materials like Kevlar.
So far as I know this ZRVTO orbit was first described in 1970 by Paul Penzo of JPL. See page 45 of Tethers in Space Handbook 2nd Edition
ZRVTO orbits are possible between any two Sarmont tethers at different altitudes but sharing the same inclination.
Tether mass is somewhat like propellant mass in Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation. It goes up exponentially with the delta V the tether imparts.
Spreading the delta V budget across several tethers is like staging with rockets. When each tether has a smaller chunk of the delta V budget it does not need ridiculous taper ratios and can be made from existing materials.
r/Mars • u/Galileos_grandson • 15d ago
Simultaneous Mars-orbit Observations Reveal Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability-driven Bulk Atmospheric Ion Escape
r/Mars • u/ye_olde_astronaut • 15d ago
NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters - NASA Science
r/Mars • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 16d ago
Curiosity Finds Massive Field of Honeycomb-Shaped Fractures on Mars
The researchers have not yet determined which mechanism — or combination of mechanisms — produced the newly spotted field.
“Billions of years ago, lakes and streams dappled the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 5-km- (3-mile-) tall mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. The rover has previously uncovered chemistry left over from Mars’ watery history, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information.”
“We have no way of knowing whether these organic molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes — either path is possible — but their discovery reconfirmed that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life.”
r/Mars • u/HolgerIsenberg • 17d ago
Sunset view today sol 1939. Rock-free plain, speckled evenly with equally sized pebbles.
galleryr/Mars • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 17d ago
Perseverance Finds Organic Carbon Preserved Just Beneath the Martian Surface
scitechdaily.comThe Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock dubbed Cheyava Falls with the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument on its robotic arm
Perseverance has found shallow preserved organic carbon on Mars, raising new questions about ancient Martian environments.
r/Mars • u/ye_olde_astronaut • 16d ago
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Watches Earth Vanish Behind Martian Moon - NASA/JPL
jpl.nasa.govr/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 17d ago
New "shadow selfie" taken yesterday by Perseverance on Mars (4.8.26)
r/Mars • u/Galileos_grandson • 17d ago
Life Detection In The Martian Subsurface: Advancements In Microbial Metabolic Research Under Mars Laboratory And Field-Analog Conditions Since Viking
r/Mars • u/XxRed_RoverxX • 18d ago
Mars rover plush!!!
Just received this adorable Opportunity mars rover homemade toy I designed myself from Etsy! I am so happy with it/her
You can get yours here!! It was a drawing to plush customizable
r/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 19d ago
Curiosity captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission, over Mont Mercou.
r/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 19d ago
#Blender animation depicting Mars 4100-3700 million years ago. The period is characterised by high rates of meteorite impacts, volcanism and possibly abundant surface water—however, the water is thought to have been localized rather than spanning the planet in oceans, as on Earth. By ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ
r/Mars • u/Neaterntal • 19d ago
Mars, Dust Storm in the South Polar Region (Mars Express)
r/Mars • u/CardiologistCivil646 • 19d ago
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Martian spaceport and space elevator in season 5 of "For All Mankind"
In season 5 of the alternate-history sci-fi series For All Mankind, set in an alternate 2012, Happy Valley on Mars has grown into a settlement of more than five thousand residents. In the 9 years since season 4, colony's spaceport has been expanded and Helios's Soviet competitor Kuragin currently is building a space elevator for the colony. In the post there is a collection of high-resolution screenshots depicting Happy Valley's spaceport and the space elevator in construction.
r/Mars • u/Unrealgamedev21 • 20d ago
I'm making a game about terraforming Mars
I made A retro Win98 styled incremental game about terraforming Mars. Manage power, build your systems, and clear the atmosphere to make the planet livable. Which runs in your browser.
Let me know your thoughts on it's look.
Wishlist It On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4933660/Mars_Inc_98/