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In the comments section of this Instagram reel, Luna Marketing Services provided this reply to me (in part): “the journey is never easy…And while quitting is, quitting never brings results” For the re...

Mars is the subject of an ongoing, decades-long effort to understand its past. Its potential ancient habitability drives that effort. More than 20 missions have been sent to its surface (though many didn't survive the entry and landing). Two are operating there currently, Curiosity and Perserverance, and multiple orbiters scan the planet's surface from above. Clues to Mars' past are in its rock, and the more ancient a piece of rock, the deeper the clues it can contain about the planet's ancient past. Visiting Mars with rovers is only one way to access the planet's rock. Fortunately, some chunks of Mars have been sent to Earth. Violent impacts have sent chunks of Mars rock into space, where they've eventually found their way to Earth as meteorites. A Martian meteorite named Black Beauty set the standard for ancient meteorites from Mars when it was found in 2011. Most meteorites are found in deserts or in snowy/icy areas simply because they're more easily seen, and Black Beauty (Northwest Africa 7034, or NWA 7034) was found by nomads in the Western Sahara. Portions of it are about 4.43 billion years old, and Mars is about 4.5, maybe 4.6 billion years old. So Black...

Seit dem 18. Februar 2021 forscht der NASA Rover Perseverance im Jezero-Krater auf dem Planeten Mars. Dabei hat er eine Entfernung von 45,22 Kilometer zurückgelegt – ein neuer Rekord.

Mars is the subject of an ongoing, decades-long effort to understand its past. Its potential ancient habitability drives that effort. More than 20 missions have been sent to its surface (though many didn't survive the entry and landing). Two are operating there currently, Curiosity and Perserverance, and multiple orbiters scan the planet's surface from above. Clues to Mars' past are in its rock, and the more ancient a piece of rock, the deeper the clues it can contain about the planet's ancient past. Visiting Mars with rovers is only one way to access the planet's rock. Fortunately, some chunks of Mars have been sent to Earth. Violent impacts have sent chunks of Mars rock into space, where they've eventually found their way to Earth as meteorites. A Martian meteorite named Black Beauty set the standard for ancient meteorites from Mars when it was found in 2011. Most meteorites are found in deserts or in snowy/icy areas simply because they're more easily seen, and Black Beauty (Northwest Africa 7034, or NWA 7034) was found by nomads in the Western Sahara. Portions of it are about 4.43 billion years old, and Mars is about 4.5, maybe 4.6 billion years old. So Black...

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