Wind drives geology on Mars these days
A new paper based on exploration by the NASA's Curiosity Mars rover-and reviewed by an astronaut while she was on ...
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Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars
A little Martian dust appears to go a long way. A small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with ...
Perseverance rover retrieves key rocky clues to Mars' geologic and water history
In its first year exploring Jezero Crater on Mars, the Perseverance rover collected rock samples that scientists anticipate will provide ...
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 ...
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 ...