Mars

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A mission to Mars would likely take an astronaut three years—nine months to get there, 16 months waiting for the planets to align for the flight back and nine months for the return.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Located near the equator of Mars, Shalbatana Vallis stretches across the planet for roughly 1,300 kilometers, about the length of Italy.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

In 1984, her mother, AnnMaria De Mars, became the first American to win a gold medal at the World Judo Championships.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Founded in 1874 by a group of friends in a dancing club, Hearts has been playing organized soccer since before the great Scottish inventions of the telephone, penicillin, or the deep-fried Mars bar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

We’d huddle together in a shuttle constructed out of chairs and bedsheets, and in T minus ten we’d blast off into space, visit the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and beyond.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas