Qui una intervista di Rainews dove la ricercatrice Italiana INAF Teresa Fornaro ci descrive di aver trovato concrete possibilità di vita passata su Marte. Tecnicamente una notizia molto importante
Nella conferenza stampa lo hanno appena detto: si tratta di una potenziale biofirma di vita passata.
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Ho come l’impressione che ci sia la volontà di spingere un po’ di budget sulla Mars Sample Return.….![]()
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È interessante l’intepretazione che della conferenza stampa dà il divulgatore veterano e acuto osservatore Daniel Fisher:
So - as many have guessed - the management-heavy press conference (overdue for 10+ minutes already) will be a cry for help to somehow save the NASA-ESA #MarsSampleReturnMission somehow.
“Quindi - come molti hanno ipotizzato - la conferenza stampa così affollata dal management (eccessivo per già oltre 10 minuti) sarà un grido d’aiuto per salvare in qualche modo la missione NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return.”
Un (IMHO) bellissimo panorama marziano ripreso da Perseverance.
This mosaic of two wide angle photos from the Perseverance rover shows the Martian surface stretching into the distance beyond two foreground hills. The rover tracks can just be seen winding into the distance. In this view clouds are unusually well defined as they float well above the tan dust that eternally colors the Martian skies. In the original photos the area near the Sun is 'burned out' by the limitations of the camera sensor. I have addressed this by manually painting over the overexposed areas to reconstruct something of the brightness contours as they probably would have appeared to a human observer. I have also 'warped' the lower corners to fill the rectangular format. Artist's prerogative
Via Don Davis su bsky.
Forse Perseverance ha ripreso 3I/ATLAS.
I think Perseverance may have spotted interstellar comet 3I/Atlas last night from Mars!
After stacking 20 images from Mastcam-Z, I found a faint smudge of light in the constellation Corona Borealis close to the location where the comet was expected. The position of that smudge isn’t quite right according to my simulation in Stellarium, but the comet would have been at this exact location just a few hours later. So perhaps there are still some unknowns about the exact orbit of the comet, or I’m using outdated orbit parameters.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß
via Simeon Schmauß e Aurélien Genin
Il JPL ha sviluppato una nuova tecnologia chiamata Mars Global Localization, che permette a Perseverance di determinare la propria posizione su Marte in autonomia con una precisione di 25 centimetri.





