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Giant, dense structures have been detected deep beneath thesurface of Mars, stirring both curiosity and excitement among ...
The latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has captured an unexpected guest: a Martian dust devil.
Beneath Mars’ barren crust, scientists may have found a hidden oasis—liquid water, deep below, waiting to reshape our view of ...
Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features. First identified in the 1970s by NASA's Viking mission, long, dark markings snake down ...
NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...
By studying the rock and other materials blasted out of a crater in an impact, planetary scientists say they were able to ...
The CaSSIS camera aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captures dark finger-like slope streaks extending across Mars's dusty surface. | Credit: NASA First identified in the ...
Curiosity has reached a long-anticipated and visually complex Martian terrain that may hold “boxwork” formations — intricate ...
The researchers divided the terrain into a grid, with each point representing a specific location on Mars' surface. They then applied physical principles to simulate how different water sources ...
scientists have also just made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars: the first-ever detection of visible-wavelength aurora from a planetary surface other than Earth. In March 2024, the Perseverance ...
"This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars' surface," said study lead author Elise Knutsen at ...