Scientists have speculated about the possibility of introducing #Chroococcidiopsis 🦠 to the #Martian 🔴 environment to aid in the formation of an aerobic environment. In addition to #oxygen production, Chroococcidiopsis could aid in the formation of #soil on the Martian surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroococcidiopsis#Mars_colonization

#Mars #terraforming

2026 February 22

Shadow of a Martian Robot
* Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Mars Exploration Rover Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/

Explanation:
What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover exploring Mars. Opportunity explored the Red Planet from 2004 to 2018, finding evidence of ancient water, and sending breathtaking images across the inner Solar System. Pictured here in 2004, Opportunity looks opposite the Sun into Endurance Crater and sees its own shadow. Two wheels are visible on the lower left and right, while the floor and walls of the unusual crater are visible in the background. Caught in a dust storm in 2018, Opportunity stopped responding, and NASA stopped trying to contact it in 2019 and declared the ground-breaking mission, originally planned for only 92 days, complete.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190818.html
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040303.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/mer/six-things-to-know-about-nasas-opportunity-rover/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040510.html
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/opportunity-catches-its-shadow-on-sol-180/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html
https://64.media.tumblr.com/fe85f6b82c2d7abb93cbdc21234e9090/tumblr_nq4v3qSYil1s5laego1_500.jpg
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190215.html
https://youtu.be/1Ll-VHYxWXU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8413/nasas-opportunity-rover-mission-on-mars-comes-to-end/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260222.html

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