Hacker News with Generative AI: Mars

In 1924, the US Turned Off Their Radios to Search for Life on Mars (iflscience.com)
NASA's Perseverance Captures 'Googly Eye' During Solar Eclipse (nasa.gov)
From its perch on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently spied a “googly eye” peering down from space.
Powering the Mars Base (wordpress.com)
A growing Mars base has a prodigious need for power.
Musk's Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion (2022) (gizmodo.com)
In a recent interview, Elon Musk repeated his stated goal of wanting to transport one million people to Mars by 2050. The SpaceX founder says the future of humanity is at stake, which, okay, but the timeline he offers is ludicrous, and here’s why.
The Origin of Samples from Mars (2023) (samplesfrommars.com)
10 years ago I created this business and 10 years ago I made my first sample.
Stable carbon isotope evolution of formaldehyde on early Mars (nature.com)
Organic matter in the Martian sediments may provide a key to understanding the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of early Mars.
Musk says humans can be on Mars in four years. Many laugh, but some see purpose (theguardian.com)
Almost buried beneath a recent avalanche of rightwing invective posted by Elon Musk on the platform he owns, X, was one eye-popping statement that made space watchers sit up and take notice: an assertion that humans could land on Mars within four years and be living there in a self-sustaining city in 20.
Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own (newscientist.com)
Using images captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud atlas of Mars, to better understand the climate of the Red Planet
Neither Elon Musk nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars (defector.com)
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does.
Neither Elon Musk nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars (defector.com)
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh.
Starships Launch for Mars in 2026. Crewed Flights Possible by 2028 (nextbigfuture.com)
Elon Musk says that uncrewed Starships will be launched to Mars in the Earth-Mars transfer window. The transfer window is about November through December 2026. A mission launched in November would arrive July 2027.
China Will Launch Its Mars Sample Return Mission in 2028 (universetoday.com)
While NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has experienced a setback, China is still moving forward with their plans to bring home a piece of the Red Planet.
With NASA's plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return (arstechnica.com)
200 Meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars (space.com)
The invisible problem with sending people to Mars (theverge.com)
The invisible problem with sending people to Mars (theverge.com)
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim (nasa.gov)
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks (bbc.co.uk)
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks (bbc.com)
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks (bbc.co.uk)
Terraforming Mars may be easier than scientists thought (science.org)
Elon Musk sues Unilever and Mars over X advertising 'boycott' (bbc.co.uk)
What could a future sovereign Mars economy look like? (phys.org)
NASA's Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock (nasa.gov)
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock (nasa.gov)
NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock (nasa.gov)
NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock (nasa.gov)
A 378-day Mars simulation changed this Canadian scientist's outlook on life (cbc.ca)
Is Mars Habitable? (1907) (people.wku.edu)
Grand Canyon-size 'scar' on Mars revealed in striking new satellite photos (livescience.com)