Nasa’s Perseverance rover has come across a bizarre find on Mars—a rock shaped like a skull that seems to defy its surroundings. Spotted on 11 April while the rover was exploring Witch Hazel Hill, the rock, now called “Skull hill,” sits on a slope in Jezero Crater—a massive 28-mile-wide area believed to have once been…
Elon Musk wants Mars to be renamed as “New World“. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO shared this idea while drawing a parallel to the historical naming of America. In a post on social media platform X (earlier Twitter), the world’s richest man shared his idea and a photo of the Red planet’s Gale Crater captured…
SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Starships to Mars in 2026, as announced by CEO Elon Musk in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter). These initial missions, scheduled to coincide with the next Earth-Mars transfer window, will be uncrewed and aimed at testing the reliability of landing on the Red Planet.Musk outlined the…
Scientists have proposed an interesting approach to increase the temperature of Mars, Earth’s planetary neighbour, by introducing engineered particles into its atmosphere. These particles, similar in size to commercial glitter and composed of iron or aluminium, would act as aerosols, trapping and escaping the heat and reflecting sunlight towards the Martian surface.The goal is to…
NEW DELHI: NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a distinctive light-colored boulder in Neretva Vallis on Mars, a region that was once an ancient river channel feeding into the Jezero crater, according to a report by the news platform Mashable.This boulder stands out among the surrounding dark rocks and has been identified as potentially being an…
LUCKNOW: ‘Lal’, ‘Mursan’ and ‘Hilsa’. These are the names given to three craters on the surface of Mars recently discovered by Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), that hint at the red planet’s wet past. Lal has been named after legendary cosmic ray physicist from Varanasi, the late Professor Devendra Lal. The other two have been…
Boriska Kipriyanovich, 27 from Volgograd, Russia, has made some extraordinary claims about his past life as a Martian and his mission on Earth, as reported by the Sun.According to Boriska, he was a part of a species from Mars that was devastated by a nuclear conflict thousands of years ago. Fearing a similar fate for…
