We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars

[Disir]

More than two years after its launch, seismic data that InSight collected has given researchers hints into how Mars was formed, how it has evolved over 4.6 billion years, and how it differs from Earth. A set of three new studies, published in Science this week, suggests that Mars has a thicker crust than expected, as well as a molten liquid core that is bigger than we thought.

In the early days of the solar system, Mars and Earth were pretty much alike, each with a blanket of ocean covering the surface. But over the following 4 billion years, Earth became temperate and perfect for life, while Mars lost its atmosphere and water and became the barren wasteland we know today. Finding out more about what Mars is like inside might help us work out why the two planets had such very different fates.

We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars

NASA’s InSight lander has shown the planet’s interior is more complex than previously thought.

www.technologyreview.com

This is pretty cool.

 

[skye]

Nice.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

WHERE did the water of Mars GO though? That amount of water cannot just disappear.

 

[Disir]

Evaporation? Mars has a really thin atmosphere.

 

[toobfreak]

More than two years after its launch, seismic data that InSight collected has given researchers hints into how Mars was formed, how it has evolved over 4.6 billion years, and how it differs from Earth. A set of three new studies, published in Science this week, suggests that Mars has a thicker crust than expected, as well as a molten liquid core that is bigger than we thought.

In the early days of the solar system, Mars and Earth were pretty much alike, each with a blanket of ocean covering the surface. But over the following 4 billion years, Earth became temperate and perfect for life, while Mars lost its atmosphere and water and became the barren wasteland we know today. Finding out more about what Mars is like inside might help us work out why the two planets had such very different fates.

We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars

NASA’s InSight lander has shown the planet’s interior is more complex than previously thought.

www.technologyreview.com

This is pretty cool.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Off-topic, but cool stuff none the leas.

Works like Google Maps.

Pinch in and out to zoon, hold and turn to look around. Click the arows for new locations.

Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian night 360 Panorama | 360Cities

360° panorama photo from by Andrew Bodrov. Digital Art Compilation Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait at

www.360cities.net

Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 360 Panorama | 360Cities

360° panorama photo from by Andrew Bodrov. NASA's Mars Exploration Program (source images: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

www.360cities.net

There's a lot of these actually. I've been tinkering with them for a few years now.

That's just two links. The night sky from Mars is particularly neat.

 

[Stryder50]

More than two years after its launch, seismic data that InSight collected has given researchers hints into how Mars was formed, how it has evolved over 4.6 billion years, and how it differs from Earth. A set of three new studies, published in Science this week, suggests that Mars has a thicker crust than expected, as well as a molten liquid core that is bigger than we thought.

In the early days of the solar system, Mars and Earth were pretty much alike, each with a blanket of ocean covering the surface. But over the following 4 billion years, Earth became temperate and perfect for life, while Mars lost its atmosphere and water and became the barren wasteland we know today. Finding out more about what Mars is like inside might help us work out why the two planets had such very different fates.

We just got our best-ever look at the inside of Mars

NASA’s InSight lander has shown the planet’s interior is more complex than previously thought.

www.technologyreview.com

This is pretty cool.

Also here, day and a half prior (Friday AM) post #23 of this thread;

Astronomy & Cosmology

The latest Scientific American, August, has an article, Is Dark Matter Real? It is not available unless you buy the magazine or pay for a download. The article is about a modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) which has been further modified to be consistent with General Relativity. Excerpts...

www.usmessageboard.com

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Evaporation? Mars has a really thin atmosphere.

And it hasn't "evaporated" in the atmosphere. There is insignificant water vapor in its thin atmosphere. The atmosphere certainly isn't holding an ocean

There is now very little water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, about 0.03 percent near the surface. And that is about as much of the vapor that the atmosphere can hold. It is practically saturated with water vapor

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

WHERE did the water of Mars GO though? That amount of water cannot just disappear.

Into the ground, mostly. Or frozen on the surface, then covered by billions of years of dust storms.