
History of Sun is buried under Moon's surface: "The Earth and Moon would have formed with similar materials, so the question is, why was the Moon depleted in these elements?" said Rosemary Killen, a planetary scientist at NASA. The force of this crash sent materials spewing into orbit, where they coalesced into the Moon. Our natural satellite took shape, the theory goes, when a Mars-sized object smashed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. This question, revealed through analyses of Apollo-era Moon samples and lunar meteorites found on Earth, has puzzled scientists for decades - and it has challenged the leading theory of how the Moon formed. Saxena wondered why there is significantly less sodium and potassium in lunar regolith, or Moon soil, than in Earth soil, when the Moon and Earth are made of largely the same stuff. "It also probably changed how quickly Mars lost its atmosphere, and it changed the atmospheric chemistry of Earth," he said. "We didn't know what the Sun looked like in its first billion years, and it's super important because it likely changed how Venus' atmosphere evolved and how quickly it lost water," said Saxena.

"This critical piece of the Sun's history has bedeviled scientists", said Prabal Saxena, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The faster the Sun turned, the quicker it would have destroyed conditions for habitability. Just how destructive these primordial outbursts were to other worlds would have depended on how quickly the early Sun rotated on its axis. These solar tantrums also may have prevented life from emerging on other worlds by stripping them of atmospheres and zapping nourishing chemicals, they said. These growing pains helped seed life on early Earth by igniting chemical reactions that kept Earth warm and wet, said researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the US. The Moon contains clues to the ancient mysteries of the Sun, which are crucial to understanding the development of life, according to NASA scientists, including one of Indian origin.Īround four billion years ago, the Sun went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system. Turn off Mars Gallery->Rovers and Landers->MSL Curiosity Rover (USA)->Gale crater landing site as it adds imagery which will obscure the images in the KML file.įor a number of other posts where we managed to track down almost all the residents of Mars see here.Moon may reveal a lot about celestial history. We have done our best to line up the imagery with the track. We have also marked the location of Curiosity at the time, and if you turn on the Google Mars layer: Mars Gallery->Rovers and Landers->MSL Curiosity Rover (USA)->Traverse Path, then it will help you trace the rover’s tracks in the higher resolution image. We have included a screen shot from Google Maps of the Secret Mars Base, a low resolution version of the original HiRISE image, and a higher resolution version of the relevant area.

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If you want to explore the imagery more in Google Mars, download this KML file.

However, if you know where to look, you can see Curiosity’s tracks going across the image.Ĭuriosity’s tracks, as seen in Google Maps / MarsĬuriosity as seen in the original image (not included in Google Maps). Unfortunately, Google has only included the colour portion of the image in Google Maps and Curiosity is just off the edge. We are fairly sure it is a section of HiRISE image ESP_037117_1755 captured on 27 June 2014.

So we decided to try and find out which image Google used.
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We have previously looked at how to get HiRISE imagery into Google Mars. So is it real? Well given that Google posted about it on March 31st, just before April Fool’s day, we think not. If you go to this location in Google Maps / Mars, you will find an image of a secret Mars Base:Īfter doing some research, we discovered that it is actually a Google Data Centre being built in anticipation of future Mars settlement. Thank you to GEB reader James for sending us this amazing find.
