In a surprising twist, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, may be reconsidering the possibility of using bitcoin as a currency on Mars. Though initially resilient due to slow transaction reconciliation, Musk expressed his thoughts in a virtual space with ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood.

“It may be possible to use bitcoin to some extent, but it would be difficult to use it much on Mars,” Musk said, suggesting the need for a network located on the red planet. The idea of a local Lightning Network, proposed by Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo, could be the key to overcoming transaction speed hurdles.

In his vision of building a colony on Mars by 2050, Musk stressed the importance of evolving into a multi-planetary species. Although facing logistical challenges, Musk considers the use of Bitcoin on Mars feasible with the innovative solutions proposed.

“12-22 minutes of light is not a problem with 10-minute blocks,” said Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, showing optimism about the idea. In addition, data from Glassnode revealed that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is significantly cheaper than traditional payment methods.

Elon Musk has left open the possibility of incorporating cryptocurrencies into X, planning to turn it into an “app for everything.” Although in August 2023 he refused to launch a cryptocurrency on the platform, there is speculation about the implementation of cryptocurrency payment options in the future.

With technological advances and the evolution of the cryptocurrency industry, the use of Bitcoin on Mars could become a reality, marking a milestone in space exploration led by SpaceX and Elon Musk.

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An experiment on a Martian analogue in northern Chile tested the utility of teaming planetary robots with artificial intelligence to focus the search for life in the most efficient way.

In an article published in Nature Astronomy, an interdisciplinary study led by Kim Warren-Rhodes, Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute, mapped the scant life hidden in salt domes, rocks and crystals in the Salar de Pajonales, on the border between the Chilean desert of Atacama and the Altiplano.

Next, Warren-Rhodes worked with co-investigators Michael Phillips (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) and Freddie Kalaitzis (University of Oxford) to train a machine learning model that would recognize the patterns and rules associated with their distributions so that they could learn to predict and find those same distributions in data on which he had not been trained.

In this case, by combining statistical ecology with artificial intelligence/machine learning, scientists were able to locate and detect biosignatures up to 87.5 % of the time (versus 10 % using random search) and decrease the area needed to search by up to 97 %.

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NASA has awarded Blue Origin the launch of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission to study Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

ESCAPADE will launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket from Space Launch Complex-36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida. The launch is scheduled for the end of 2024.

This mission will study the magnetosphere of Mars, the magnetized area of ​​space surrounding the planet – using two identical small spacecraft, which will provide simultaneous observations from two points. The spacecraft will help researchers better understand how the magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind and how energy and plasma move in and out of the magnetosphere, NASA reports.

Each satellite will carry three instruments: a magnetometer to measure the magnetic field, an electrostatic analyzer to measure ions and electrons, and a Langmuir probe to measure plasma density and the solar extreme ultraviolet flux.

ESCAPADE will take about 11 months to reach Mars after leaving Earth orbit, where both spacecraft will spend several months adjusting their orbits before they are in a position to best capture data about the magnetosphere.

Studying the different magnetospheres allows scientists to better understand space weather, which can protect astronauts and satellites both while they orbit Earth and when they explore the solar system.

ESCAPADE is part of NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration program.

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SpaceX will launch the first Starship into orbit in January 2022. According to Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, the first flight of the Starship system should be implemented in early 2022.

The company is targeting January or February, Musk said during an online meeting of the Board for Space Studies and the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the US National Academies.

This initial historical leap will ideally be followed by more shortly thereafter. Starship could go through “a dozen launches next year, maybe more,” and be ready to send valuable payloads to the Moon, Mars and even the outer planets of the solar system by 2023, he added.

Musk advised against sending something too valuable on the first flight to Mars. “I would recommend putting the lower-cost science mission stuff on the first mission,” he commented, quoted by Universe Today.

SpaceX to conquer space

Starship consists of two elements: a spaceship called the Starship and a giant first-stage booster known as the Super Heavy. Both will be fully reusable and both will be powered by Raptors: six for the final Starship and 29 for Super Heavy.

Intended for the first orbital trial, the SN20 prototype will eventually have six Raptors: three standard and three vacuum. SpaceX is preparing the vehicle for the long-awaited orbital flight test, a first for the Starship program. Prototypes have been launched before, but those were three-engine vehicles (at most) that reached a maximum altitude of approximately 10 kilometers.

SN20 and a Super Heavy known as Booster 4 will launch from the Starbase in Texas. The thruster will make an ocean splash in the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles from the launch site. But SN20 will make it all the way to orbit, if all goes according to plan, eventually landing on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

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This Thursday, February 18, the NASA Perseverance rover landed successfully on the Jezero crater of Mars, as planned. Now, it becomes the fifth exploration vehicle that the US space agency places on the surface of the “red planet”.

In a statement, NASA confirmed that after successfully overcoming the “seven minutes of terror”, which represented “traversing the thin atmosphere of Mars and descending on the rocky surface of the Jezero crater”, the explorer is ready to discover signs of life in the past.

El astronauta @AstroAcaba de @NASAArtemis envía sus mejores deseos al equipo de @NASAPersevere y anima a los puertorriqueños a seguir soñando con el espacio. #JuntosPerseveramos pic.twitter.com/9XImHNwjAr

— NASA en español (@NASA_es) February 18, 2021

Launched on July 30, 2020 and equipped with cutting-edge technology, the Perseverance is made up of 6 wheels, a measure that is close to 3 meters long and weighs 1,025 kilograms, and has the mission of searching Mars for signs of past microbial life and collect selected rock and sediment samples for future shipment to Earth.

Behold! @NASAPersevere's first image after completing her #CountdownToMars: pic.twitter.com/pBFNk62zfi

— NASA (@NASA) February 18, 2021

Three minutes before landing, the spacecraft deployed its parachute at supersonic speed and 20 seconds later the entry capsule detached from the heat shield. This allowed the rover to use radar to determine ground clearance and employ its terrain-relative navigation technology to find a safe landing site, as explained by NASA.

In addition, just one minute before touching the surface the rear half of the capsule attached to the parachute detached. At that moment, the structure surrounding the rover activated its retro-rockets to reduce speed and in the last few meters it dropped the rover with nylon straps attached to a crane. A great success celebrated by the entire team at the United States Space Agency.

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