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#Extremophile survives the transient pressures associated with impact-induced ejection from #Mars: #panspermia

🌊 Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
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Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a first-time mapping study involving Martian river basins. This study has the potential to not only gain insight into ancient Mars and how much water existed there long ago, but also develop new methods for map…

Even though our knowledge has greatly advanced over the decades, I must say the #planetary literature was much more exciting during the Mariner program
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Stratigraphy of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater, #Mars: Evidence for Shoreline Processes? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009111 -> New clues to Mars’s habitability in discovery of ancient beach: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/engineering/earth-science/2026/new-clues-to-marss-habitability-in-discovery-of-ancient-beach/

Elon #Musk Won't Get Us to #mars
#ElonMusk won’t get you to Mars and none of the #ai companies are work…

Elon Musk Won't Get Us to Mars
or: on space travel and AI and federations

A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/

Carbonated ultramafic igneous rocks in #Jezero crater, Mars: #Perseverance #Mars Rover Ready to Roll for Miles in Years Ahead: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-ready-to-roll-for-miles-in-years-ahead/

Simultaneous Double Transits of #Phobos and #Deimos as Seen from the Martian Surface - A Millennium Catalogue: #Mars

Seasonal Ice Cover Could Allow Liquid Lakes to Persist in a Cold #Mars Paleoclimate: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025AV001891 -> Thin ice may have protected lake water on frozen Mars: https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/thin-ice-may-have-protected-lake-water-frozen-mars

"Tesco and Mars post successes with sustainable farming schemes"
#Mars #Tesco #Farming #Food

Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris: #Mars was half covered by an ocean: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html

Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone? #Mars Organics: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-fully-explain-mars-organics/

Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx

Self-driving cars, self-growing cities. Same difference. 💁‍♂️
#sarcasm #space #moon #mars #technology #humanity #future #Musk

Isotope effects (Cl, O, C) of heterogeneous electrochemistry induced by Martian dust activities: #Mars