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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Ejecting Mars' Pebbles
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog. Our first success: The ...
Perseverance's first year on Mars: Purdue professor, mission team member looks at what is ahead
Almost one year into the Mars rover mission, accomplishing its goal is on the horizon for Purdue University's Briony Horgan ...
Dust storm grounded Mars helicopter, but it's ready to fly again
One of the Red Planet's famous dust storms has kept the Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for two weeks, but the ...
Wanted: recycling methods to keep astronauts alive
It took a crop of potatoes to keep Matt Damon alive on the red planet in The Martian. And in ...
Steady driving towards ExoMars launch
The first simulation of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of ...