MAVEN and EMM make first observations of patchy proton aurora at Mars
NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates' Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have released joint ...
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MIT's MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars
On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a ...
A vast and mysterious valley system in the southern Martian highlands
These images, acquired using with DLR High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), reveal a chaotic region on our neighbouring planet. It ...
Perseverance Rover team's first results
Two papers recently released in the scholarly journal Science by Farley et al. and Liu et al., which describe recent ...
Everything is Dust in the Wind
Well, not quite. But for scientists like me, who study atmospheric and aeolian (wind-driven) processes, wind-blown dust is extremely important ...
Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars' Jezero Crater
Scientists got a surprise when NASA's Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring ...
The sands of Mars are green as well as red, rover Perseverance discovers
The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. That's much what ...
New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water
Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will ...
New water map of Mars will prove invaluable for future exploration
A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet's watery past, and showing where we ...
How Martian ionospheric dispersion effected on SAR imaging
The subsurface of Mars records important historical information on the formation and evolution of Mars. As an ionized medium, the ...