NASA's InSight spacecraft on Mars nears final days
NASA's InSight spacecraft is nearing the end of its life after four years on Mars. The Mars InSight lander was ...
Tag: Red Planet
Meteorite impact provides a glimpse beneath Mars' surface
On 24 December 2021, NASA's InSight lander felt the ground shake. Its SEIS seismometer registered a marsquake of magnitude 4. ...
Magma on Mars likely
Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ...
ANU scientists use deep planetary scan to confirm Martian core
Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in ...
A close encounter with a mysterious moon
In 1877, the American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars, later named Phobos and Deimos ...
Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet
Scientists who study Mars on Thursday revealed the remarkable Christmas gift they received from the planet last year. On December ...
Ancient bacteria might lurk beneath Mars' surface
When Mars' first samples return to Earth, scientists should be on the lookout for ancient sleeping bacteria, a new study ...
Driving on the Sidewalk, MARDI-Style: Sols 3630-3632
We continue our drive through "Marker Band valley", an area of high interest scientifically, due to strong evidence of sulfates ...
A hydrogen-rich first atmosphere for Mars inferred from clays on its surface
According to new research, Mars may have been born a blue and water-covered world, long before the Earth had even ...
Celebrating Halloween and investigating ghoulish rocks from the Red Planet
Have you ever seen faces on Mars? What about weirdly shaped rocks resembling animals and bones? Rocks with spooky holes ...