NASA orbiter views sites of fiction film’s Mars landings

Last week NASA said it would be making a major announcement today about a discovery on Mars.

In order to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of Mars, a larger heat shield is needed – because it not just has to protect against the extreme heat of entering Mars’s atmosphere, but it has to decelerate the spacecraft at a safe altitude in the thin Martian air. The University of Arizona’s Alfred McEwen, who serves as HiRISE’s principal investigator, said, “Much of Acidalia Planitia is covered by dense fields of boulders up to several meters high that would be hard to drive around”.

“The development of a Martian begins with our science – begins with our ground-truth that we get from our wanderers – and it develops to human investigation“, Jim Green, chief of NASA’s Planetary Science division, said Thursday (Oct. 1) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, amid an occasion concentrating on “The Martian” and the space office’s Red Planet arranges.

“Everything else on Mars is available for life”.

Nasa’s discovery of water on Mars “points to environments that could potentially be habitable to certain kinds of bacteria”, according to an expert. The salty water then flows downhill on the planet’s sloping geological features and leaves a darkish mark on the surface.

“New findings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars”, NASA announced yesterday.

Dark, narrow streaks called recurring slope lineae emanating out of the walls of Garni crater on Mars are seen in an image produced by NASA.

This discovery validates what has always been suspected.

This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location associated with the novel and movie, “The Martian“.

“Our rovers has taken soil samples and we’ve found them to be moist and full of water“.