Island in a lake of lava – the Martian volcano Jovis Tholus
These images, created using data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, show ...
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NASA's MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought
Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life. As the ...
Making a splash in a lava sea
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a ...
Sols 3369-3370: Ok Then, Maybe Not, Mars
In the last blog my colleague Lucy expressed excited hope for today's planning of close-up imagery of the rocks we ...
X-rays will make plant diets of the future more tasty
Imagine taking your favorite treat - a Mars bar or cream puff - and beaming it with X-rays to map ...
Sols 3367-3368: The Prow to take another bow
The weekend plan included a short drive (or bump) to get us closer to one of the interesting, more resistant ...
SwRI scientist helps confirm liquid water beneath Mars south polar cap
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm ...
How to Retain a Core
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2022 Have you ever wondered how a coring bit grabs and holds onto a rock ...
Hope for present-day Martian groundwater dries up
Liquid water previously detected under Mars' ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study ...
New control technique uses solar panels to reach desired Mars orbit
A satellite on a science mission to Mars aims for a low-altitude orbit, but the lower the orbit, the more ...