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10 feet long and 9 feet wide NASA Curiosity has been exploring Martian surface since 2012 and stands out in footage captured by Reconnaissance Orbiter.
In the mid-1980s, a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilization that had once ruled over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, discovered a pattern: a near-perfect ring of sinkholes -cenotes- about 200 kilometers across, encircling the Yucatecan capital, Merida, and port towns of Sisal and Progreso. A pattern created by an ancient asteroid explosion that one young NASA scientist thought may yield clues to the lost ocean and atmosphere of Mars.
Defining Event in the History of Planet Earth
When the researchers presented their findings to fellow satellite specialists at a scientific conference in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1988, one scientist in the audience, Adriana Ocampo, then a young planetary geologist at NASA, saw not just a huge ring, but a bullseye –the impact crater of an asteroid that hit with the force of 10 billion Hiroshima nuclear bombs that scarred the planet in ways still being revealed 66 mil
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What NASA s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter s First Flight Means for Future of Space Exploration
On 4/19/21 at 7:08 AM EDT
But what are the implications of this achievement for the future of space exploration?
Michael Gaffey, a professor in the Space Studies Department at the University of North Dakota, told
Newsweek that the successful flight opens up a whole new range of possibilities for exploring Mars.
Read more Mars landing missions have always had to aim at safe areas ideally flat featureless areas to minimize the risk of encountering an obstacle, such as a large rock, that would damage or tumble the lander, Gaffey said.