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Mars has an atmosphere, but its thin CO2 air can't sustain humans

Stand on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit and you would lose consciousness in roughly 15 seconds. Not because of the ...
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NASA confirms that Mars has air, but is it enough to keep a human alive even for a few seconds?

NASA confirms that Mars has air, but its composition and extremely low pressure raise a far more serious question: could a ...

Mars has air, but almost none of it can keep you alive

For all the drama around getting to Mars, the harder question starts after landing. A person can step onto the planet with ...

What makes Mars' magnetotail flap? Two spacecraft point to magnetic reconnection

The sun continuously blasts charged, magnetic field-carrying particles, or plasma, in all directions. This solar wind ...
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ESA orbiter reveals strange behavior within Mars’ upper atmosphere during a solar superstorm

ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...

NASA cleanroom fungus could survive a trip to Mars, raising contamination concerns

A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...

Could an Earthly Fungus Contaminate Mars? NASA May Have Found One Hardy Enough.

Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...