NASA-Funded Study Extends Period When Mars Could Have Supported Life
The surface of Mars is barren and inhospitable, but perhaps it wasn't always that way. Billions of years ago, when ...
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China's Mars orbiter sends back selfie video on Lunar New Year eve
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 extended festival greetings to the Chinese people with stunning video footage captured by a camera on ...
Crater tree rings
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It's actually an impressive birds-eye view ...
Out of Pebble Purgatory
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I'll give you ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...