Here's the problem with living on Mars someday: You're sitting in your
lawn chair in your fully self-contained envirosuit, sipping a marstini
(see what I did there?) through your suit's built-in straw module and
then WHAM! A space rock slams into the ground next to you ruining a
perfectly good time.
It's likely to happen, as NASA recently concluded that space rocks causing craters in excess of 12 feet in diameter rocket into the planet about 200 times per year. Mars lacks Earth's protective atmosphere, so instead of burning up at higher altitudes, the rocks are free to fall straight into the Martian soil and -- blammo! -- there goes cocktail hour.
One of the most recent impacts to our red neighbor, seen in the photo above, was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that's attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo was taken in November but just released this week, and the impact to the Martian surface was believed to have taken place sometime between July 2010 and May 2012.
Here's the problem with living on Mars someday: You're sitting in your lawn chair in your fully self-contained envirosuit, sipping a marstini (see what I did there?) through your suit's built-in straw module and then WHAM! A space rock slams into the ground next to you ruining a perfectly good time.
It's likely to happen, as NASA recently concluded that space rocks causing craters in excess of 12 feet in diameter rocket into the planet about 200 times per year. Mars lacks Earth's protective atmosphere, so instead of burning up at higher altitudes, the rocks are free to fall straight into the Martian soil and -- blammo! -- there goes cocktail hour.
One of the most recent impacts to our red neighbor, seen in the photo above, was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that's attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo was taken in November but just released this week, and the impact to the Martian surface was believed to have taken place sometime between July 2010 and May 2012.
It's likely to happen, as NASA recently concluded that space rocks causing craters in excess of 12 feet in diameter rocket into the planet about 200 times per year. Mars lacks Earth's protective atmosphere, so instead of burning up at higher altitudes, the rocks are free to fall straight into the Martian soil and -- blammo! -- there goes cocktail hour.
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One of the most recent impacts to our red neighbor, seen in the photo above, was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that's attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo was taken in November but just released this week, and the impact to the Martian surface was believed to have taken place sometime between July 2010 and May 2012.
Here's the problem with living on Mars someday: You're sitting in your lawn chair in your fully self-contained envirosuit, sipping a marstini (see what I did there?) through your suit's built-in straw module and then WHAM! A space rock slams into the ground next to you ruining a perfectly good time.
It's likely to happen, as NASA recently concluded that space rocks causing craters in excess of 12 feet in diameter rocket into the planet about 200 times per year. Mars lacks Earth's protective atmosphere, so instead of burning up at higher altitudes, the rocks are free to fall straight into the Martian soil and -- blammo! -- there goes cocktail hour.
One of the most recent impacts to our red neighbor, seen in the photo above, was caught by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that's attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo was taken in November but just released this week, and the impact to the Martian surface was believed to have taken place sometime between July 2010 and May 2012.
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