- The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic: A bedrock principle is that no one—not even the president, much less the former president—is above the law, and if they commit crimes, they must answer for them. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trumps-mar-lago-raid-doesnt-make-banana-republic/671082/ 224 comments politics
- Donald Trump Has Been Talking About How Much He Misses Mar-a-Lago While Stuck at White House During Shutdown https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-misses-mar-lago-stuck-white-house-shutdown-report-1292157 49 comments politics
- Water may have been on Mars much more recently than scientists thought, China's rover suggests https://www.space.com/mars-water-more-recent-china-rover 5 comments science
- A mars 360 video I made, hope you'll find it interesting and fascinating as much as me https://youtu.be/beISKi5grS8 3 comments space
- How much does aero-braking ACTUALLY reduce delta-v costs for travel to/from Mars? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/iu5mke/how_much_does_aerobraking_actually_reduce_deltav/ 13 comments askscience
- Cocoa’s child laborers: Mars, Nestlé and Hershey pledged nearly two decades ago to stop using cocoa harvested by children. Yet much of the chocolate you buy still starts with child labor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershey-nestle-mars-chocolate-child-labor-west-africa/? 3 comments worldnews
- Afghanistan election marred by carnage and corruption: ‘I can’t see much hope for the future’ | ‘The main aim of the Afghan people should be to avoid getting blown up between now and the end of the week when we vote,’ says 20-year-old Afghan student https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghanistan-election-corruption-taliban-peace-talks-trump-isis-terror-a9115596.html 4 comments worldnews
- Forget about the moon: Donald Trump says NASA should focus on 'much bigger things' ... like Mars https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/07/moon-landing-trump-says-nasa-should-focus-bigger-things/1383294001/ 37 comments politics
- Cocoa's child laborers: Mars, Nestlé and Hershey pledged nearly two decades ago to stop using cocoa harvested by children. Yet much of the chocolate you buy still starts with child labor in West Africa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershey-nestle-mars-chocolate-child-labor-west-africa/ 31 comments worldnews
- Mars avoiding losing much of its water into space thanks to insulating blankets of sand that covered deep layers of ice at its poles, suggest new studies. If these icy layers were melted, it would cover the Red Planet in a watery ocean about 5 feet deep. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/05/mars-layered-ice-caps-reveal-its-climate-history 110 comments worldnews
- Are there any estimates for how much water is in Mars' Korolev Crater? https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/world/mars-express-ice-nasa-insight/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-12-21T18%3A59%3A53&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image 3 comments askscience
- How much power is needed to get signals to the mars rover, and/or further places in space? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/a2twrr/how_much_power_is_needed_to_get_signals_to_the/ 5 comments askscience
- Astronauts going to Mars will absorb high amounts of radiation. Now we know how much. New data from one of the many spacecraft at work around Mars confirm the levels of radiation that would hit humans https://www.livescience.com/63644-mars-radiation-too-much-for-astronauts.html 5 comments space
- Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/09/21/astronauts-going-to-mars-will-absorb-crazy-amounts-radiation-now-know-how-much.html 6 comments space
- NASA engineers successfully hacked a fix for the Mars Curiosity Rover's drill, which broke in 2016. The new technique is called "feed extended drilling" and works by pushing the drillbit past Curiosity's stabilizer bars, much like a human leans against a wall to steady themselves while working. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/06/nasa-hacked-a-fix-for-mars-rovers-broken-drill 4 comments space
- Elon Musk explains why he launched a car toward Mars — and the reasons are much bigger than his ego: “The goal of this was to inspire you, and make you believe again, just as people believed in the Apollo era, that anything is possible.” https://www.businessinsider.com/why-elon-musk-launched-tesla-mars-falcon-heavy-2018-3?r=us&ir=t 148 comments space
- Elon Musk Will Put Humans on Mars Much Sooner than We Think, Astronaut Says: “Humans on Mars, I think will be the late 2030s” https://www.inverse.com/article/41892-spacex-elon-musk-mars-astronaut-time-peake 56 comments space
- Mars water ice much shallower than previously thought, could be accessible to humans https://gizmodo.com/water-might-be-easier-to-find-on-mars-than-we-thought-1821990091 18 comments science
- Bill Maher harshly criticized the "fantasy" of going to Mars on his show, and how it takes away much needed attention to our own planet. What is your rebuttal to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGFEW2Hb2g 924 comments space
- Newly Discovered Ice On Mars Contains As Much Water As Lake Superior: The Utopia deposit is close enough to the surface that it could be used as a resource by astronauts who land in the area https://www.good.is/articles/mars-ice-water-discovery 198 comments worldnews
- An enormous underground ice deposit on Mars contains as much water as Lake Superior http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6680 1160 comments science
- Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior http://phys.org/news/2016-11-mars-ice-deposit-lake-superior.html 5 comments space
- Mars Is Still a Priority Under Trump. Earth, Not So Much. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/trump-space-policy-nasa-moon-earth-exploring-mars/ 7 comments politics
- Christian Alfoni: If We Didn't Spend So Much on IE Support, We Could Be Taking Vacations on Mars https://medium.com/reactiveconf/christian-alfoni-if-we-didn-t-spend-so-much-on-ie-support-we-could-be-taking-vacations-on-mars-9c4be1c57375 62 comments javascript
- So much for the crowd-funded Mars mission https://medium.com/matter/all-dressed-up-for-mars-and-nowhere-to-go-7e76df527ca0 3 comments science
- In the 1960s, NASA proposed a manned fly-by of Mars using existing Apollo hardware. The problem was there was too much weight in fuel to make it feasible. The badass physics solution: Fly around Venus and use it as a gravity assist. http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/nasas-1960s-studies-for-a-manned-mars-flyby-130304.htm 8 comments space
- In the smartphone industry alone, as much as $20 billion was spent on patent litigation and patent purchases in the last two years - an amount equal to eight Mars rover missions. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.xml 61 comments technology
- Mars was much warmer and wetter in the past, and now more likely than ever to have had life once. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10231374.stm 45 comments science
- Mars Rover Spirit moves! (but not by much) http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/20091119a.html 2 comments science
- Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327266.100 93 comments space
- Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327266.100-too-much-radiation-for-astronauts-to-make-it-to-mars.html?dcmp=otc-rss&nsref=online-news 20 comments reddit.com
- New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster - If we're ever to make regular journeys from Earth to Mars and other far-off destinations, we might need new kinds of engines. Engineers are exploring revolutionary new technologies that could help us traverse the Solar System in much less time. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48912458 5 comments space
- Trump's Mar-a-Lago visits cost twice as much as all transgender military medical expenses https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/transgender-military-trump-cost/ 9 comments politics
- Huge Underground Ice Deposit on Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico - "A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior does here on Earth" http://www.space.com/34811-mars-ice-more-water-than-lake-superior.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630 67 comments worldnews
- How much electrical power on Mars is needed to refuel one MCT with ISRU every 26 months, working from first principles? [OC, didthemath] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4me65s/how_much_electrical_power_on_mars_is_needed_to/ 250 comments spacex
- KY state senator: "... the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars, there's no factories on Mars that I'm aware of. So I think what we're looking at is something much greater than what we're going to do." http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/kentucky-senator-on-global-warming-there-are-no-coal-mines-on-mars-20140708 325 comments politics
- I am one of the final 100 candidates for the Mars One mission but it is unlikely that I will ever land on Mars. As much as I would love to be one of the first interplanetary scientists, a potential mission to Mars remains, for the moment, beyond our reach. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/18/mars-one-astronaut-joseph-roche-space-missions 22 comments space
- Rover audio reveals different rules for sound on Mars. Based on noises from the rover's laser and helicopter, the speed of sound is much slower on Mars than on Earth. On Earth, sounds typically travel at about 767 mph, but on Mars, high-pitched sounds move at 559 mph and low-pitched ones at 537 mph. https://astronomy.com/news/2022/08/mars-rover-audio-reveals-different-rules-for-sound-on-the-red-planet 43 comments space
- In 1965, 4 years before the Moon landing, the Mariner 4 Mars flyby crushed fantasies but began Mars exploration. Many hoped for pictures of life on Mars. Mariner 4 revealed a desert covered with craters much like the Moon. The photos captured a curious world’s attention, and showed we are alone. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/alone-darkness-mariner-4-mars-50-years-later-47324 350 comments space
- NASA's proposed budget for 2020 funds the Europa Clipper and Mars 2020 missions, as well as a Mars sample return mission in the mid-2020s, but cuts funding for the much anticipated WFIRST space observatory. http://astronomy.com/news/2019/03/nasa-budget-proposal-slashes-other-missions-in-favor-of-mars-sample-return 9 comments space