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'30 Seconds To Mars' Performs In Milan
July 2, 2025, Milan, Italy: Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars. (Credit Image: © Mirko Fava/LPS via ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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'30 Seconds To Mars' Performs In Milan
July 2, 2025, Milan, Italy: Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars. (Credit Image: © Mirko Fava/LPS via ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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Thirty Seconds To Mars In Concert
Jared Leto and Shannon Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars perform live at Ippodromo SNAI in Milano, Italy, on July 2, 2025. (Photo by Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto) -
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Thirty Seconds To Mars In Concert
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Thirty Seconds To Mars In Concert
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Thirty Seconds To Mars In Concert
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Thirty Seconds To Mars In Concert
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Music Concert - Thirty Seconds To Mars - World Tour 2025, Milan, Italy
July 2, 2025, Milan, Italy: Jared Leto of Thirty Seconds to Mars. (Credit Image: © Mirko Fava/LPS via ZUMA Press W_DALLE (FOTO: DUKAS/DALLE) --- NO WEB USAGE ---
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China Mars Simulation Base
An aerial view shows the China Mars simulation base in Haixi City, Qinghai Province, China, on May 22, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto) -
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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China Mars Simulation Base
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NASA Mars rover pictured rolling across the Red Planet
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US space agency NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been photographed, from an orbiting space craft, making its lonely way across the Red Planet’s surface.
The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving.
The image was captured on Feb. 28 the 4,466th Martian day of the mission, mid-drive across the barren Martian terrain.
In the image, Curiosity’s tracks lead to the base of a steep slope. The rover has since ascended that slope since then, and it is expected to reach its new science location within a month or so.
The photo was taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, known as HiRISE, aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, one of seven currently circling the planet.
It shows Curiosity as a dark speck at the front of a long trail of rover tracks.
The tracks are thought likely to last for months before being slowly erased by wind.
The tracks are about 320 meters long and represent roughly 11 drives starting on Feb. 2 as Curiosity trucked along at a top speed of 0.16 kph f on the journey specified science stops.
In this case it was heading to a region with potential formations, possibly made by groundwater billions of years ago.
OPS:NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the rover’s tracks, which can linger on the Martian surface for months before being erased by the wind.
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Mars rover has spacesuit fabric swatches
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A Mars space rover is set to help US space agency NASA decide the best material to use for making space suits for human landings on the Red Planet,
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet’s climate and geography.
But another key objective is to pave the way for human exploration and as part of that effort, the carries a set of five spacesuit material samples.
Now, after those samples have endured four years of exposure on Mars’ dusty, radiation-soaked surface, scientists are beginning the next phase of studying them.
The end goal is to predict accurately the usable lifetime of a Mars spacesuit.
What the agency learns about how the materials perform on Mars will inform the design of future spacesuits for the first astronauts on the Red Planet.
The swatches, each 20 mm square, are part of a calibration target used to test the settings of an instrument on the end of Perseverance’s arm called SHERLOC which scans the planet for chemicals and possible signs of life.
The samples include a piece of polycarbonate helmet visor; cut-resistant material Vectran used for the palms of astronaut gloves; two kinds of Teflon, which has dust-repelling nonstick properties and a commonly used spacesuit material called Ortho-Fabric.
This last fabric features multiple layers, including Nomex, a flame-resistant material found in firefighter outfits; Gore-Tex, which is waterproof but breathable; and Kevlar, a strong material used in bulletproof vests that makes spacesuits more rip-resistant.
OPS:A caliubration target on the Amrs Pewrserverance rover arm known as SHERLOC. Along the bottom row are five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they de-grade.
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Mars rover has spacesuit fabric swatches
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A Mars space rover is set to help US space agency NASA decide the best material to use for making space suits for human landings on the Red Planet,
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet’s climate and geography.
But another key objective is to pave the way for human exploration and as part of that effort, the carries a set of five spacesuit material samples.
Now, after those samples have endured four years of exposure on Mars’ dusty, radiation-soaked surface, scientists are beginning the next phase of studying them.
The end goal is to predict accurately the usable lifetime of a Mars spacesuit.
What the agency learns about how the materials perform on Mars will inform the design of future spacesuits for the first astronauts on the Red Planet.
The swatches, each 20 mm square, are part of a calibration target used to test the settings of an instrument on the end of Perseverance’s arm called SHERLOC which scans the planet for chemicals and possible signs of life.
The samples include a piece of polycarbonate helmet visor; cut-resistant material Vectran used for the palms of astronaut gloves; two kinds of Teflon, which has dust-repelling nonstick properties and a commonly used spacesuit material called Ortho-Fabric.
This last fabric features multiple layers, including Nomex, a flame-resistant material found in firefighter outfits; Gore-Tex, which is waterproof but breathable; and Kevlar, a strong material used in bulletproof vests that makes spacesuits more rip-resistant.
OPS:NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with a cyellow ircle indicating the location of the calibration target for the rover’s SHERLOC instrument hiousing the swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they de-grade.
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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Projet de station spatiale sur Mars
Pictures must credit: Thomas Herzig / Pneumocell.com An engineer who has worked on how to set up and feed a colony in Mars has now come up with the best way to put humans on the surface. And he reckons its done by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid. An astronaut’s body will have to endure extreme hardships on a month-long journey to and and then from the Red Planet. They will be exposed to a high dose of cosmic radiation and microgravity where muscles and Bones gradually weaken. When crew members leave their safe habitat to explore the Mars surface another problem is the negative impact on physical performance due microgravity in the spacecraft that took them there. Astronauts returning from the International Space Station already face problems after much shorter stays such as muscle atrophy reduced bone mass ,heart shrinkage and vision issues. Some have too weak to stand on their feet when they initially set foot back on Earth although they recover within a few weeks under careful medical supervision. A new type of space station has been proposed for orbiting Mars using a rotating habitat to simulate gravity as seen in the classic Sixties science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It should not spin faster than three revolutions per minute to avoid causing dizziness and motion sickness and so would need a radius of 100 Austrian Thomas Herzig’s idea is for a space station to be assembled on an asteroid called Itokawa which passes close to both Mars and Earth during its journey around the Sun. Picture supplied by JLPPA
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La Nasa sollicite les entreprises, à hauteur de 24 millions de dollars, pour financer le programme Artemis
Pictures must credit: NASA US space agency NASA is asking companies to come up with $24 million USD to develop ideas on how to help support astronauts on future permanent Moon bases. The agency has allocated cash amongst nine firms as part of its blueprint for deep space exploration to support its Artemis programme to return humans to the lunar surface. The selected proposals propose innovative strategies and concepts for logistics and mobility solutions including advanced robotics and autonomous capabilities. They also includes handling and offloading; logistics transfer; staging, storage, and tracking; surface cargo and mobility and integrated strategies The money is being advanced to tech, space and aerospace businesses including Blue Origin owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. The brief is how to manage everyday challenges in the lunar environment identified by NASA for both the Moon and eventual missions to Mars.
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New alloy mesh tyres to carry humans across Mars
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The tyres that could carry astronauts over the surface of Mars have been unveiled by US space agency NASA.
While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has only explored 1% of its surface.
Ahead of future human and robotic missions to the Red Planet, NASA recently completed rigorous rover testing on Martian-simulated terrain;
It used a revolutionary alloy mesh tyre developed at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in partnership with car tyre manufacturer Goodyear.
The tyres were made from a nickel-titanium alloy which has the ability to rearrange its atomic structure when force is introduced.
It’s a shape memory metal which means it that can return to its original shape after being bent, stretched, heated, and cooled.
Rovers for exploring planetary surfaces must be equipped with adequate tyres for the environment.
Mars has an uneven, rocky surface so the durable so-called shape memory alloy tyres will make that possible.
They can absorb the impact from a wide range of sharp, craggy rocks without suffering damage.
NASA engineers just tested the tyres at a UK facility owned by European aircraft maker Airbus that simulates the Martian terrain, called Mars Yard.
OPS: A NASA rover equipped with the new alloy mesh tyres under test in simulated Martian conditions at Mars Yard in the UK.
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New alloy mesh tyres to carry humans across Mars
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The tyres that could carry astronauts over the surface of Mars have been unveiled by US space agency NASA.
While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has only explored 1% of its surface.
Ahead of future human and robotic missions to the Red Planet, NASA recently completed rigorous rover testing on Martian-simulated terrain;
It used a revolutionary alloy mesh tyre developed at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in partnership with car tyre manufacturer Goodyear.
The tyres were made from a nickel-titanium alloy which has the ability to rearrange its atomic structure when force is introduced.
It’s a shape memory metal which means it that can return to its original shape after being bent, stretched, heated, and cooled.
Rovers for exploring planetary surfaces must be equipped with adequate tyres for the environment.
Mars has an uneven, rocky surface so the durable so-called shape memory alloy tyres will make that possible.
They can absorb the impact from a wide range of sharp, craggy rocks without suffering damage.
NASA engineers just tested the tyres at a UK facility owned by European aircraft maker Airbus that simulates the Martian terrain, called Mars Yard.
OPS: A NASA rover equipped with the new alloy mesh tyres under test in simulated Martian conditions at Mars Yard in the UK.
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New alloy mesh tyres to carry humans across Mars
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23/01/2025
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Pictures must credit: NASA
The tyres that could carry astronauts over the surface of Mars have been unveiled by US space agency NASA.
While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has only explored 1% of its surface.
Ahead of future human and robotic missions to the Red Planet, NASA recently completed rigorous rover testing on Martian-simulated terrain;
It used a revolutionary alloy mesh tyre developed at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in partnership with car tyre manufacturer Goodyear.
The tyres were made from a nickel-titanium alloy which has the ability to rearrange its atomic structure when force is introduced.
It’s a shape memory metal which means it that can return to its original shape after being bent, stretched, heated, and cooled.
Rovers for exploring planetary surfaces must be equipped with adequate tyres for the environment.
Mars has an uneven, rocky surface so the durable so-called shape memory alloy tyres will make that possible.
They can absorb the impact from a wide range of sharp, craggy rocks without suffering damage.
NASA engineers just tested the tyres at a UK facility owned by European aircraft maker Airbus that simulates the Martian terrain, called Mars Yard.
OPS: One of the new alloy mesh tyres
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NASA $24 million USD for studies for future Moon exploration
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US space agency NASA is asking companies to come up with $24 million USD to develop ideas on how to help support astronauts on future permanent Moon bases.
The agency has allocated cash amongst nine firms as part of its blueprint for deep space exploration to support its Artemis programme to return humans to the lunar surface.
The selected proposals propose innovative strategies and concepts for logistics and mobility solutions including advanced robotics and autonomous capabilities.
They also includes handling and offloading; logistics transfer; staging, storage, and tracking; surface cargo and mobility and integrated strategies
The money is being advanced to tech, space and aerospace businesses including Blue Origin owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.
The brief is how to manage everyday challenges in the lunar environment identified by NASA for both the Moon and eventual missions to Mars.
OPS: Artist’s rendering of astronauts managing logistics on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA
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Un combustible nucléaire, destiné aux futurs vaisseaux spatiaux, testé avec succès
Picture MUST credit: General Atomics A nuclear fuel that may one day power the spacecraft of the future has been successfully tested. The trial was designed to show the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor for deep space exploration, including human missions to Mars. Tests by the company behind it, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, were conducted in collaboration with US space agency NASA. Chemical-powered rocket engines that put the first satellite into space and man on the Moon have reached the theoretical limits of their capabilities. To go to the next level for space missions a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion system or nuclear rocket is needed. This is a system that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that heats up a propellant. The reactor must operate at temperatures of up to 2,300 °Celsius with highly reactive superheated hydrogen gas t. Conventional nuclear fuel would have trouble standing up to that but the new fuel just tested has achieved that capability. General Atomics carried out several high-impact tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Successful test of rocket fuel that could take man to Mars
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A nuclear fuel that may one day power the spacecraft of the future has been successfully tested.
The trial was designed to show the fuel can survive the harsh environment of a nuclear rocket reactor for deep space exploration, including human missions to Mars.
Tests by the company behind it, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, were conducted in collaboration with US space agency NASA.
Chemical-powered rocket engines that put the first satellite into space and man on the Moon have reached the theoretical limits of their capabilities.
To go to the next level for space missions a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion system or nuclear rocket is needed.
This is a system that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that heats up a propellant.
The reactor must operate at temperatures of up to 2,300 °Celsius with highly reactive superheated hydrogen gas t.
Conventional nuclear fuel would have trouble standing up to that but the new fuel just tested has achieved that capability.
General Atomics carried out several high-impact tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
OPS:Render of a future rocket being powered by the new system approaching Mars
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kery james interview à Paris 06 mars 2015 © Sophie LE ROUX
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kery james interview à Paris 06 mars 2015 © Sophie LE ROUX
kery james
interview ˆ Paris ,france
06 mars 2015
© Sophie LE ROUX- DALLE (FOTO: DUKAS/DALLE) --- NO WEB USAGE ---
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
A In Camera Double Exposure photo of Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), double exposed with an illustration provided by JPL of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. Karras is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA.. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
A In Camera Double Exposure photo of Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), double exposed with an illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. Karras is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA.. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
A In Camera Double Exposure photo of Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), double exposed with an JPL image of the flight model of NASA’s Mars Helicopter, taken on Feb. 14, 2019, in a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Karras is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA.. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
A In Camera Double Exposure photo of Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), double exposed with an illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. Karras is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA.. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
Nancy Pastor -
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Robotics Electrical Engineer, Jaakko Karras
Jaakko Karras, a Robotics Electrical Engineer, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the only Finnish-born to control a robot that landed on Mars, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, photographed in on a bluff overlooking the JPL campus in Pasadena, CA. (Nancy Pastor/POLARIS) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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