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The 2019 Humans to Mars Summit

The Humans To Mars Summit (H2M) embodies the core mission of Explore Mars, Inc., which is to advance humanity to the Martian surface by the 2030s. The 2019 Summit will feature a diverse lineup of topics, technologies, breakout sessions, and audience participation that will address the future challenges and progress of human exploration of Mars. Speakers will include high-ranking NASA officials, industry executives, experts from diverse fields (including science, engineering, and policy), representatives from the entertainment industry, international luminaries, and STEM education professionals.

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The 2019 Humans to Mars Summit

The Humans To Mars Summit (H2M) embodies the core mission of Explore Mars, Inc., which is to advance humanity to the Martian surface by the 2030s. The 2019 Summit will feature a diverse lineup of topics, technologies, breakout sessions, and audience participation that will address the future challenges and progress of human exploration of Mars. Speakers will include high-ranking NASA officials, industry executives, experts from diverse fields (including science, engineering, and policy), representatives from the entertainment industry, international luminaries, and STEM education professionals.

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Kent Dunn said Earth is Terra and Mars is Gaia. In the Stargate SG-1 series we are referred to as Terrans.
ter·ra
/ˈterə/
noun
noun: terra; noun: Terra
  1. 1.
    land or territory.
  2. 2.
    (in science fiction) the planet earth.
 

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Mars' Burns Cliffs shows signs of outflowing ground water from beneath the surface. Credit: NASA/JPL/Opportunity Rover

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That was depicted to Star Trek: Discovery.
Post #16: STAR TREK: Discovery Premieres this Sunday!
The intro to the show is CG & music and they didn't use the standard "Space the final frontier." It starts off with the Asian female captain & her black female first officer who's half Vulcan on a desert world. They were there to open a water well for the indigenous life forms who were experiencing a drought. There was a storm coming in and the captain had them walk to trace out the Star Fleet emblem in the sand so they could be seen for pick up.
 

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Detects Spike in Methane on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered “startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air” on Wednesday in what could potentially be a sign of life on the Red Planet, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

The detection of methane would be a major discovery because, as the Times noted, it breaks down within a few centuries due to sunlight and chemical reactions—meaning it would have had to have been generated quite recently in historical terms. High levels of methane could potentially be generated underground by microbes called methanogens that survive without oxygen and produce the gas as a metabolic byproduct. Project scientist Ashwin R. Vasavada told the Curiosity science team in an email that “Given this surprising result, we’ve reorganized the weekend to run a follow-up experiment,” the Times wrote.

The readings on Wednesday are over three times that of a sudden spike in 2013 that lasted several months; after first finding nothing after its touchdown in 2012, Curiosity detected approximately seven parts per billion of methane later in the year. The newest measurements are 21 parts per billion.


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Scott C. Waring of all people find this one lol...It does look like a bird in its shape judging from that still image...

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Well, it isn't a bird.

Mars atmosphere has little oxygen and is less than 1% as thick.

It is so thin that they have to use rockets to land heavy vehicles.

There have been some airplane concepts for Mars, but they travel at Mach+ (for Mars) or 537+ mph with about 4 kg mass and a 1.73 meter wingspan.

Hard to land at Mach speed (see pictures of the Germanwings crash that was much slower).
 
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