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  • Will a Mars Direct approach put man on Mars?

    Will a Mars Direct approach put man on Mars?

    Mars Direct | Cheapest way to get to Mars?

    NASA recently confirmed the presence of liquid flowing water on Mars. With this anticipated confirmation, the vision of humans landing on the red planet, Mars, is being revived. Space scientists have finally confirmed what they had long suspected for at least a 100 years. Will a Mars Direct, or a modified similar approach, put man on Mars at last?

    The dream of Mars Society president, Dr. Robert Zubrin, may come true after all. It was Zubrin along with his team who developed the most feasible and cheapest aerospace approach to get to Mars.

    Here’s the story of it all.

    The Mars Underground Film: Orange Dot Entertainment | Radius Productions

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  • Dawn Arrives In Ceres Orbit

    Dawn Arrives In Ceres Orbit

    Dawn Arrives In Ceres Orbit

    Dawn, JPL / NASA’s space probe, achieved orbit around planet Ceres this Friday, March 6, 2015 as it was programmed. The sapce caft had been sending clearer imagery of the [dwarf] planet Ceres since early this year. The probe started to slow down its speed to position itself around the orbit of Ceres.

    The best picture of Ceres had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope years before Dawn reached the [dwarf] planet’s vicinity.

    Ceres Dawn

    Ceres | Hubble Space Telescope – NASA

    It was early this year when NASA released photos taken with cameras onboard the space probe as it closed by the small planet Ceres.

     Gallery Updated April 30, 2015

    An unusual bright spot was rediscovered on Ceres in one of the pictures from Dawn. Further inspection would find another smaller bright spot as it shows the next image released last February 19, 2015

    Ceres Dawn

    Ceres bright spots 02-19-2015 | Dawn – NASA/JPL

    Today Dawn is in orbit around the [dwarf] planet Ceres. The follwing image was released last March 01, 2015 by NASA. As the probe orbits Ceres, the lead team hopes to obtain more data and better resolution images that helps them explain what the bright spots on the planet are.

    Ceres March 01, 2015 | – NASA/JPL

    Images: NASA / JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

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