Curious since US Supreme Court pushed this decision to individual US states to decide. As we become more of a space-faring nation, seems like it’s not a matter of if, but when unplanned pregnancy will happen on long term space missions. Complications might put more than just mother’s life at risk, but entire crew.

I paint Mars surfaces using NASA's public domain photos as photo references. I also layer Martian dust in some areas of my paintings, where the color permits. Martian dust comes from Mars meteorites. I'm currently working on a series of such paintings called Martian Treks. Hope you guys enjoy!

Before starting, i am an astrophile (someone who loves space and astronomy) so even this small dream meant a lot to me.

This one night when i went to sleep, as soon as the midst of night took over my eyelids and they started to close. I went into the REM state. Then, the dream started.

I remember wearing a high-tech or more advanced space suit, i was on mars. Though i had never really visited (ofcourse) i felt a sense of anemoia (meaning: a sense or feeling or nosalgia of something or some place you have never been to) and that nostalgia was nothing normal. IT was home-ly. I started to go around and explore a bit, let me explain the environment.

It wasnt totally redd-ish ofc, it was like mar's original surface the clouds were orange-yellowish like sand on earth, the environment was lonely as hell, no one literally no one but just me. I have no explanation of how i ended up there but yeah. I could seee farrrr off lands, rocky small hills but then as i was exploring, i saw this one rock mountain which had a cave?

Moving forward, i ended up being surrounded by idk how to explain what, some species? they were not alien-looking, they seemed to be human-ly. I went with them? Maybe they were martians. They didn't talk anything but just stared at me and eachother but i could feel and sense what they r trying to convey.

Ultimately, they took me to the cave i was talking about earlier, and they sat me down on a rock, it wasnt any home it was just... rocky. I further looked at... Mars, from that cave because it was on a higher altitude. Mars is lonely-ly beautiful and i don't know i felt a certain connection to that and those people and yes then my dream ended as i was watching mars along with those unknown human-ly species.

PS: the species didn't have any suit on but they were in some different kind of clothing.

Okay, obviously some people are a little too gung-ho about making money on Mars or visiting it. I really couldn't be bothered reading the article, simply because it's just too fucking weird 🙄

Dear r/Mars

A few years I co-founded a STEM education NGO, Phoenix Space, teaching focusing mainly on teaching physics and mathematics to refugees, using the inspirational topic of space. After a few years of collaborations with local charities in three continents, several countries We're now aware that without training in computer science like machine learning, many of our students might be missing out on key skills for the future.

I want to expand our flagship program to include an introduction to machine vision module whereby students will take a dataset and train a simple machine vision model to classify an image of the Martian surface, and perhaps to recognise and count features like dunes, craters, slopes. We'll probably start off using something like Google's Teachable Machines. The idea is that the students can then use this model to automate the search for a suitable landing site for their mission (the whole course is themed around learning the science to get a fictional mission to Mars).

I've had a look through Nasa's Open Data portal and found some HiRise images that have been labelled , and I've also gone onto Machine learning platforms like Kaggle and found some datasets, but there are bunch of problems I run into (the images are different size, or feature black regions, or some are in colour, or some are B&W, and some just don't have enough images in them for training). I don't have a tremendous amount of time (the NGO is something I do aside from my day-job), and I was really hoping that somebody here might be able either give me some advice about how to do this, point me in the direction of a similar education project that I can ask to adapt, or if there is a user-friendly and perhaps annotated data-set which are open to the public that might be useful to me?

I've got a background in astrophysics and have some experience with Python so I'm not put off having to do some work using scripts to process the images - I just don't have much time to work on this so!

Thanks in advance

The photo provided is from Apple’s Astronomy Lock Screen. I’m curious as to why some photos or artistic renditions of the planet feature purplish colors on the planet, like near the bottom of it in this Lock Screen, while others don’t feature the purple.

The best answer I’ve found is the Iron-rich material in its crust but I’m not sure if that’s the true reason it’s sometimes portrayed in this way.

Any input is appreciated, thank you!

Wondered if things like the mirage effect or if one was at the right angle watching a rocket launch, thermal distortion could be observable given ideal conditions on the surface of Mars.

Thx ✌🏼

I started a new series of paintings called Martian Treks. The series will consist of 30 paintings, all depicting the surface of Mars. I use NASA’s public domain photos, mainly taken by HiRISE. Mars has a huge variety of colors and textures, which, to me, have artistic value. That’s why I am creating the series, and this is the first painting in it. You can spot Curiosity somewhere between a rock and a crater if you zoom in (it’s really just a dot). As for the Martian dust, it comes from Mars meteorites and is certified. I can elaborate more on it if anyone is interested. Anyway, I hope this community can appreciate my efforts :)

Humans are expected to start settling on Mars within the next 20 years. How will you go about colonizing Mars? What are the important considerations and how will you prioritize them to ensure sustainable human presence on the planet?

How will you raise funds for this colonization? Additionally, how will you strategize your budget, and what trade-offs will you make?

What are the problems you foresee during your colonization on Mars?

Give innovative ideas or solutions to solve these problems

How would you measure the success of your colonization? What potential risks do you foresee with your solution, and how would you mitigate them?

FAQs

What kind of conditions can you assume on Mars and on Earth?

You have to consider that Mars has become a liveable/hospitable planet due to technological advancement. Due to several factors on Earth some of the humans are deciding to shift to Mars. 

Who are you?

You can assume that you are the administrator of the planet. You can assume a logical backstory for yourself e.g.  you are the first to make Mars habitable. Or you are a space expedition leader responsible for leading the journey to Mars. Or a UN-elected administrator etc

Study: Mars Ice Could Be Harboring Alien Life

The Facts

According to a study published in Communications Earth & Environment on Thursday, microbial alien life could exist within ice on Mars' surface, protected from harmful ultraviolet radiation.[1]

Researchers modeled the conditions necessary for life to survive in Martian ice and found that a habitable zone could exist between 5 and 38 centimeters (around 2 and 15 inches) deep in ice with 0.01-0.1% dust or between 2.15 and 3.10 meters (7 and 10 feet) within cleaner ice.[2]

Mars' lack of a global magnetic field and thin atmosphere provide minimal protection against radiation that can break down complex organic molecules essential for life.[1]

The study suggests that dusty ice at Mars' mid-latitudes could provide enough shelter from cosmic rays to protect potential Martian life while allowing sufficient sunlight for photosynthesis.[3]

The researchers posit that microbes such as cyanobacteria, which have adapted to survive in extreme conditions on Earth, could potentially scavenge nutrients from Martian dust mixed with ice, utilize small amounts of meltwater, and create "radiative habitable zones."[4][5]

Last month, the European Space Agency shared images of a "smiley" salt deposit on Mars, with researchers suggesting that similar deposits "can provide optimal conditions for biological activity and preservation."[6]

What is the realistically most likely scenario that would happen if when we get to mars we encounter life but not just any life an aggressive life, I feel like we don’t talk about this as much as we should, could this delay our colonization of mars, how many of them are there for all we know there could be billions or even trillions, why aren’t we even thinking about preparing for something like this, when we are going to a new land we know nothing about we have to be ready for anything???