This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)
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This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)
In space, you’d think there would be no shortcuts. It’s space. It’s defined by its vastness, its emptiness, and, you’d imagine, its directness. You just have to go from here to there in a straight line, maybe maneuver around a planet or moon or something, but that’s about it. In reality, it doesn’t really work that way, especially when you have to consider fuel efficiency, resource allocation, and whether or not humans will be able to survive th…
A trip to Mars is currently considered a very long mission that takes many months or even longer, but a new study published in the journal Acta Astronautica suggests a possible way to significantly shorten the time. According to the study, hundreds of days could be shaved off the round-trip journey to Mars, so that the entire mission could take as little as 153 days. Currently, interplanetary flight planning is based primarily on precise data on…
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