Planet Mars

Planet Mars features rotating or spinning Mars with image of Odyssey Spacecraft hovering, collecting data, and taking pictures of Mars and sends it back to earth. As the more scientists learned about Mars the more yet to be learned about it and the most intriguing question is there water on Mars? It is designed for space fans and enthusiasts to display as animated desktop wallpapers that replaces traditional still, static, and boring desktop backgrounds and wallpapers. Planet Mars also known as (The Red Planet) is the fourth planet from the sun. According to scientist, the red planet is home to both the highest mountain and the deepest, longest valley in the solar system Mars has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, including Olympus Mons, which is about 370 miles in diameter. It is a shield volcano, with slopes that rise gradually like those of Hawaiian volcanoes, and was created by eruptions of lavas that flowed for long distances before solidifying. Scientists think the Valles Mariner is formed mostly by rifting of the crust as it got stretched. Individual canyons within the system are as much as 60 miles wide. Large channels emerging from the ends of some canyons and layered sediments within suggest the canyons might once have been filled with liquid water. Many regions of Mars are flat, low-lying plains. The lowest of the northern plains are among the flattest, smoothest places in the solar system, potentially created by water that once flowed across the Martian surface. The northern hemisphere mostly lies at a lower elevation than the southern hemisphere. Scientist believes that the difference between the north and south might be due to a very large impact shortly after the birth of Mars. The most infamous geographical feature is the Polar caps-similar to North Pole and South Pole on Earth because of vast deposits of what appear to be finely layered stacks of water ice and dust extend from the poles to latitudes of about 80 degrees in both hemispherMars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury. In English, Mars carries a name of the Roman god of war, and is often referred to as the “Red Planet” because the reddish iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance that is distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth.

The rotational period and seasonal cycles of Mars are likewise similar to those of Earth, as is the tilt that produces the seasons. Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano and second-highest known mountain in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons in the Solar System. The smooth Borealis basin in the northern hemisphere covers 40% of the planet and may be a giant impact feature. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small and irregularly shaped. These may be captured asteroids, similar to 5261 Eureka, a Mars trojan.

There are ongoing investigations assessing the past habitability potential of Mars, as well as the possibility of extant life. Future astrobiology missions are planned, including the Mars 2020 and ExoMars rovers. Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars due to low atmospheric pressure, which is less than 1% of the Earth’s, except at the lowest elevations for short periods. The two polar ice caps appear to be made largely of water. The volume of water ice in the south polar ice cap, if melted, would be sufficient to cover the entire planetary surface to a depth of 11 meters (36 ft). In November 2016, NASA reported finding a large amount of underground ice in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. The volume of water detected has been estimated to be equivalent to the volume of water in Lake Superior.

Feb. 2013: “MARS has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. … Softpedia guarantees that MARS 4.3 is 100% FREE, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.” 

• Easily editable register and memory values, similar to a speadsheet

• Display values in hexadecimal or decimal

• Command line mode for instructors to test and evaluate many programs easily. Command-line arguments to specify registers and memory locations to be displayed after the program run, to examine for correct contents. Set up a “batch” to do many programs in succession.

• Floating point registers, coprocessor1 and coprocessor0

• • “Tool” utility for MIPS control of simulated devices (new in 2.1). A tool is a program running on a separate thread with access to MARS data. An assembly program can run in MARS and interact with the tool through memory-mapped IO. Any imaginable pseudo-device can be interfaced to MIPS assembly code, or extended to physical devices or hardware.

    The Mars24 software displays a Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the “standard” Mars time as well lander and other local times. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle and path for a given location on Mars.

    NASA has just published its 2017-2018 software catalog, which lists the many apps, code libraries and tools that pretty much anyone can download and use. Of course, most of it is pretty closely tied to… you know, launching spacecraft and stuff, which most people don’t do. But here are a few items that might prove useful to tinkers and curious lay people alike.

    If you’re interested in a piece of software, head to the link provided; it should provide the release or license type (some things are limited to the U.S., for instance), a contact you can hit up for more info and sometimes a dedicated site for the app or service.

    The PDS Engineering Node maintains a registry of tools useful for planetary science. Users can download tools from the registry. Users can also submit software to the registry that they feel is of interest to others working with planetary science data.

    Other Tools

    The following is a list compiled by the Geosciences Node of useful planetary science tools and links for the PDS data user.  The list contains both products produced by the PDS and those produced externally.