Listen: Future Fossils: Tanya Harrison on Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo
Dr. Tanya Harrison
One Day on Mars (National Geographic)
What’s Up on Mars? (Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex — Titusville, FL)
A roundup of current missions on and orbiting Mars, presented at a level appropriate for all ages and backgrounds.
Read more: What’s Up on Mars? (Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex — Titusville, FL)
Dr. Tanya Harrison is available as a speaker for conferences and other events.
Scientists Eulogize the Opportunity Rover’s 15 Years of Service (Discover Magazine)
From Discover Magazine:
“After some 15 prolific years on the martian surface, NASA’s Opportunity rover has gone silent. It took a whopping planet-wide dust storm to fell the solar-powered robot, but, in February, the space agency officially ended the mission. We talked with NASA scientists about their experiences working on the golf-cart-sized rover and what Opportunity meant to them. Their eulogies for the lost rover, originally intended to last just three months on Mars, are below.”
Read more: Scientists Eulogize the Opportunity Rover’s 15 Years of Service (Discover Magazine)
First active fault zone found on Mars (National Geographic)
From National Geographic:
Millions of miles away, a robot geologist stands alone on the dusty surface of Mars, listening for faint seismic echoes in the ground below. Its finger on the red planet’s pulse is sensitive enough to pick up the whoosh of wind, the drone of dust devils, the creak of tectonic cracks, and many other rumbles ricocheting though the planet’s insides.
While most of these signals have been indistinct murmurs, two have stood out loud and clear, allowing scientists to trace them back to their source: the first active fault zone yet found on the red planet.…
…“It’s a huge deal for Mars science,” Harrison says. “It’s totally mind blowing.”
Read more: First active fault zone found on Mars (National Geographic)
Let’s Move to Mars: Here’s How We’re Going to Survive in Space (SXSW)
People have been talking about it for years, but we as a society are closer than we’ve ever been before – the time has come for us to pick up and move to Mars! In the Space Track we’re bringing in industry experts who will be sharing what we know so far about space, travel, and otherworldly related tech that could help us on our journey into the great beyond.
Before you start packing up your suitcases, take a look at sessions in this new track in the SXSW Conference on space-related entrepreneurship, cutting-edge technology, and more.
Read more: Let’s Move to Mars: Here’s How We’re Going to Survive in Space by Nicole Cappabianca
More Than Martians (Ignite@AGU — San Francisco, CA)
Lightning talk on why Mars exploration is about more than the search for alien life.
Read more: More Than Martians (Ignite@AGU — San Francisco, CA)
Dr. Tanya Harrison is available as a speaker for conferences and other events.
Proud Space Nerds Episode 7: Fly Me to the Moon and Beyond (Honeywell Aerospace)
KJZZ: New ASU Exhibit Explores What It Would Be Like To Live On Mars
Friday Night Book Club: For All Humankind
Mission Eve: Dr. Tanya Harrison
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