Could Earth-based microbes survive a trip to MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron…
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Photo of volcanic ash taken in Hawaii on April 8, 2008. Credit: United States Geological Survey Scientists found evidence that a region of northern MarsMars…
Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed “Rochette,” from which NASA’s Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on…
Perseverance’s First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube: Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample is visible inside this titanium sample collection tube in this image taken on…
August 11, 2021. (Click image for wide, high-resolution image.) Several filmmakers have used the desert landscapes of Wadi Rum as a stand-in for the Red…
Animation of NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter from above. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech “The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” –Winston Churchill Following Flight…
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer…
The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on September 1, 2021, by one of…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up…
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” (on a geological scale, though…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up…
Phobos imaged by HiRISE. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Japan’s space agency (JAXAFormed in 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was born through the merger…
This image of the South Séítah region of Jezero Crater was captured by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 12th flight at Mars, on August…
This illustration shows NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft and the limb of Mars. Credit: NASA/Goddard By combining observations from three international spacecraft at MarsMars is the second…
Hydrohematite (right) is a brighter red than anhydrous hematite (left). Credit: Si Athena Chen, Penn State A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a…
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons—an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The role of…
Credit: NASA Want to try living on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron…
An image taken by the Curiosity Rover MastCam instrument shows layered sedimentary rocks composing Mount Sharp. The rover has been driving from the floor of…
MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent in Mars’ surface resulting…
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO This image was taken on March 22, 2021, in the Lunae Planum region [16.74°N, 300.9°E] of Mars Mars is…