the martian
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Project Hail Mary is Lifting Off with Ryan Gosling in March 2026
Years ago, Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Project Hail Mary was being optioned as a film with Ryan Gosling in the lead role. After years of no significant news on the project, Amazon MGM’s ready to bring the adaptation to theaters, and it’s even locked down a release date: March 20, 2026. No other major films—if…
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NASA’s InSight Caught a Lonely Martian Sunrise
The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also collecting some fascinating scientific data on the planet’s geology.
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Ingenuity Flies Further and Faster in Third Flight on Mars, Going Beyond All Tests Conducted on Earth
On Sunday, Ingenuity demonstrated once again that it was the little Mars helicopter that could. NASA reported that Ingenuity had successfully completed its third test flight earlier in the day, flying further and faster than it ever had in tests conducted on Earth.
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Forget Potatoes, We’ll Be Eating Onions And Drinking Dandelion Wine On Mars
OK, we get it. If you want to survive on Mars, just grow a bunch of potatoes out of your own, uh, fertiliser, like Matt Damon in The Martian and boil, smash and stew them to your stomach’s content. Except potatoes don’t grow anywhere near as well as on Mars as other vegetables, going by…