What Does Mars FEEL Like?

less than 1m read

·Nov 10, 2024

Want to know what the surface of Mars feels like? Well, this is MGS1, a precision Martian regolith simulant used by NASA, ISRO, private space companies, and universities to simulate the ground on Mars. It's manufactured by Space Resource Technologies right here on Earth, but its physical properties and chemical composition are based on what Curiosity found at the Rock Nest site in Gale Crater on Mars.

If you're a member of the Curiosity Box, I'm sending you 50 g of this stuff in your next box. You could use it to stain your clothes in otherworldly ways. You could try to conjure life from its long slumber, but do not breathe it in. No crystalline perchlorate salts were found at the Rock Nest site, but what was found there is still pretty bad for you, especially your lungs.

This dust has been sharpened in the same way that Martian winds would sharpen the dust. I chose the most realistic set of specifications because when you join the Curiosity Box, I decide what you get. Now, most people wouldn't want something that's dangerously accurate, but you're not most people, are you?

THE FED JUST CRUSHED THE MARKET | Urgent Changes Explained

Revolutionizing the Way We Grow Food | Nat Geo Live

View All

Ask me anything with Sal Khan: May 15 | Homeroom with Sal

Hi everyone, welcome to the daily homeroom livestream. For those of you all who are wondering what this is, when we started having physical school closures, we realized—and everyone had to be socially distant—we realized that it’s our duty really, as a no…

Primary Elections Explained

Primary elections are how political parties in the United States pick their strongest candidate to run for president. The parties do this by holding mini-elections in each of the states, and the candidates with the most votes from these elections become t…

Shifting functions | Mathematics III | High School Math | Khan Academy

So we have these two graphs that look pretty similar: Y is equal to F of x and Y is equal to G of x. What they ask us to do is write a formula for the function G in terms of F. Let’s think about how to do it, and like always, pause the video and see if y…

Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting

Welcome to the problem with first past the post voting explained by me, C. G. P. Grey. The royal family has a problem. But this isn’t just any royal family; these are the lions — rulers of the jungle since time immemorial. There are protests over the mona…

A Steam Pit Celebration | Live Free or Die

[Music] Yeah, that’s good. Even these rim rocks are pretty warm, but most importantly, everything below the ground level’s red hot under there. Matt’s putting the finishing touches on the primitive pit he’ll use to roast his wild turkey, but it’s a delic…

Causes and Effects of Climate Change | National Geographic

Human activities, from pollution to overpopulation, are driving up the Earth’s temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us. The main cause is a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect. Gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon…

What Does Mars FEEL Like?

More Articles