mars
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You Can Send Your Name to Mars
You can’t visit other planets (yet), but your name can. NASA is sending millions of people’s names to Mars. Unlike those “name a star after yourself” offers, this isn’t a scam; for the low price of “everyone’s tax dollars,” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will laser-etch your name (or the name of a loved…
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How to Watch the Mars Rover Landing
NASA’s latest Mars rover launched into space last summer, and after nearly seven months of space travel it’s now on its final descent to the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land on Mars on Friday, February 19, and you can watch the whole thing live. Here’s how.
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How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Launch Live
Given how well things have been going on Earth lately, sending a robotic vehicle into space to scope out Mars is an even more intriguing idea than usual. And right now, it looks like the launch of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is one of the few trips that hasn’t been cancelled in recent months.…
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Is It Legal For Elon Musk To Colonise Mars?
8This week, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX revealed more details about how it plans to transport colonists to the planet Mars. There are a lot of open questions about how this will work, technically speaking, and who will pay for it. But there’s another fundamental issue that must be addressed before anybody can reserve a seat…