Résultats pour "Mars" dans Sciences exactes

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet, illustrated with full-colour photographs—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for...

Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we've learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering through the sky becomes a blurry mirage of apparent seas, continents, and canals as viewed through Earth-based telescopes. 

Brought to you by Penguin. As a new wave of interplanetary exploration launches in summer 2020, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars. 'This elegantly crafted book conveys what it's like to be a young scientist involved in the quest' Lord Martin Rees...

Our nearest planetary neighbor has been the subject of endless fascination and wide-ranging theories throughout history. Is there life on Mars? Was there ever life on Mars? What was the atmosphere like thousands or millions of years ago? From Percival Lowell, who built his own observatory so he could dedicate himself to studying the red planet, to NASA landing the car-sized Curiosity rover in 2012, this book traces Scientific American's coverage of the observation and exploration of Mars.

* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scientific American’s #1 Book for 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * “Helpfully pulls back the curtain on some of the lesser-discussed challenges to humanity’s off-Earth...

Get ready to blast off to the Red Planet! In this six-part series, we dive into the science, mystery, and future of Mars. From ancient myths to robotic missions, the possibility of alien life, and the bold plans to colonize it—this is your ultimate guide to humanity’s next great frontier. For more out-of-this-world podcasts, visit: https://www.quietperiodplease.com/ – you won’t want to miss what’s next!Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series! https://amzn.to/4hSW7bdThis show includes AI-generated content.

Get up close and personal with science as Andrew Kessler narrates his hilarious journey inside NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission - a historic enterprise manned by a motley crew of rocket scientists. The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic.

In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key to the strength of Kushat, the city that guards the Gates of Death in the frozen north. A brief inspection of the artifact plunges Stark into the mind of its creator, where he sees, through those long-dead eyes, the unutterably ancient, beautiful, and evil Martian race who are imprisoned in the ice beyond the Gates of Death, alive and plotting to reclaim Mars for themselves and to extend the ice, their world, around the whole planet. Falling into the hands ...

Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.

Every year, 200 experts across machine learning, automation, robotics, and space arrive in Palm Springs for MARS to share new ideas about how these four fields will shape our future. TV host and maker of things Adam Savage (MythBusters) takes listeners deep inside the MARS conference. In interviews with more than a dozen leading scientists and thinkers, Savage explores the mind-blowing and often misunderstood ways in which science and innovation are transforming the way we live, work, and play.

Host Cosmo Ray investigates the race to establish humanity's first permanent Mars settlement, exploring competing visions from SpaceX to NASA, deadly obstacles colonists face, and revolutionary technologies needed for a self-sustaining civilization on the Red Planet. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the Red Planet - and human habitation of Mars isn't much farther off. In October 2015, NASA declared Mars "an achievable goal"; that same season, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon's The Martian drew crowds into theaters, grossing over $200 million. Now the National Geographic Channel fast forwards years ahead with Mars, a six-part series documenting and dramatizing the next 25 years as humans land on and learn to live on Mars.

Host Ava Grey explores how NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated in 1999 due to unit conversion errors—a $125 million lesson in communication failure. Episodes reveal how mathematical mistakes, ignored warnings, and systemic pressures destroyed a spacecraft 461 million miles away. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Join host Griffin Rowe as he chronicles NASA's robotic quest to answer humanity's oldest question: are we alone? From Viking's 1976 experiments to Perseverance's organic discoveries, explore how rovers have transformed our understanding of Mars and the search for ancient life. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Imagine Mars is the podcast where Lacey Presley examines the latest SpaceX innovations, Mars colonization strategies, and the first-principles thinking required to make humanity multiplanetary. From Starship updates to engineering breakthroughs and the vision behind @LaceyPresley on X—join the conversation that turns imagination into reality.

Felix Mercer reveals how NASA's Artemis II mission is secretly a Mars dress rehearsal. This 10-day lunar flyby stress-tests the life support systems, radiation shields, and reentry engineering that will one day carry humans to the Red Planet. Discover why the Moon is our proving ground for Mars. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its lesser gravity. Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants. Thanks to his strength and combat abilities he rises in position in the tribe and earns the respect eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs. The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of ...

John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior martial abilities, and he is treated with deference by this fierce race. Falling in love with a princess of red humanoids (two-armed but egg-bearing), he contrives a daring escape and later rescues the red men from the hostility of another nation of their own race. In this struggle he enlists the aid of his former captors, whom he gradually civilizes,...

When a 1976 Mars photo revealed what looked like a colossal face, it sparked decades of speculation about alien civilizations. Join Raven Thorne as she unravels how this optical illusion exposed something far more intriguing—the way our brains create meaning from randomness. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.