NASA's MAVEN – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN – mission arrived at the Red Planet in 2014 charged with studying the loss rate of Mars' atmospheric molecules to space.

Scientists proposed to introduce engineered nanoparticles into Mars' atmosphere to raise its temperature by 50 degrees Fahrenheit over ten years. These particles would enhance the natural ...

Due to Mars' extremely thin atmosphere, temperatures drop off very quickly the farther you are from the ground. While air near the ground can reach over 20°C, the air just a metre or two above ...

Mars’s atmosphere is thin and made up of primarily carbon dioxide. When condensed by cool temperatures and mixed together with dust and water vapour, it can create striking cloud patterns.

Rocks on Mars would have interacted with water containing CO2 from the atmosphere. Researchers said that over several billion years, this process could have stored enough CO2 in the clay surface ...

Peter Buhler, a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, has modeled a new suggestion: that carbon dioxide condensed out of Mars’ atmosphere in a glacier nearly 0.4 mile (0.6 ...

The difference between Earth and Mars is that our planet has been able to manage a continuous outgassing of carbon dioxide, mostly from volcanism, to maintain its presence in our atmosphere.

Scientists proposed to introduce engineered nanoparticles into Mars' atmosphere to raise its temperature by 50 degrees Fahrenheit over ten years. These particles would enhance the natural ...