New clues about Mars' early atmosphere suggest a wet planet capable of supporting life
New research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters suggests that Mars was born wet, with a dense atmosphere allowing ...
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China's Mars rover expected to resume work in December
China's Mars rover Zhurong, currently in sleep mode, is expected to wake up automatically in December when its energy level ...
Sols 3599-3600: A Stay and Play Kind of Day
Coming into planning, we were ready for a standard "Touch and Go" plan, where we do some early morning science ...
The Perseverance robotic arm tightrope of abrasion proximity science
The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ...
Number of ancient Martian lakes might be dramatically underestimated
Lakes are bodies of water fed by rainfall, snowmelt, rivers and groundwater, through which, Earth is teeming with life. Lakes ...
InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars
NASA's InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not ...
Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer ...
James Webb Space Telescope sends back pictures of Mars
NASA announced Monday that the James Webb Space Telescope captured the blinding infrared light from Mars earlier this month. The ...
The Perseverance robotic arm tightrope of abrasion proximity science
The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ...
Scientists believe Mars rock samples contain organic matter
Scientists believe some of the recently-collected rock samples taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover likely contain organic matter. The four ...