The red planet. Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet’s seismic properties for the first…
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An SwRI scientist modeled the climate of Mars to understand if hydrated salts or brines on the surface of the Red Planet could harbor life.…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover’s descent stage was recently stacked atop the rover at Kennedy Space Center, and the two were placed in their back shell.…
Channel-forms preserved in sedimentary strata in the Hellas Basin on Mars. These well-exposed channels are archived evidence of long-lived rivers active on the Martian surface…
Artist’s rendition of NASA”s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars. Credit: NASA/GSFC Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier—and much…
Vaneeza Rupani (inset), a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, came up with the name Ingenuity for NASA’s Mars Helicopter (an artist’s…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, expected to launch in July 2020, will land in Jezero crater, pictured here. The image was taken by instruments on NASA’s…
Romain Charles, ESA astronaut support engineer for Mars 500, captured through a door. Credit: ESA – Mars500 In these times of confinement, ESA astronaut support…
Members of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover mission team photographed themselves on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely from home.…
Landscape on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover after crossing a dune. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what…
Credit: ESA–P. Horváth Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into the Martian atmosphere.…
Associate Professor Yohey Suzuki at the University of Tokyo led the effort to develop a new way to prepare rock samples to search for life…
NASA’s Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020.…
University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean.…
(Click image for full view.) This selfie was taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 26, 2020 (the 2,687th Martian day, or sol, of…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on February 14, 2020. Image Credit:…
Artist’s impression of the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover. This image shows a front view of the rover with the drill in a vertical position. Credit:…
This image of the Moreux crater in the Terra Sabaea region of Mars comprises data gathered on October 30, 2019, during orbit 20014. The ground…
Graphic depiction of Myco-architecture off planet: growing surface structures at destination. Credit: L. Rothschild Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets…
Mars is shaking. Credit: NASA / JPL – Caltech Fifteen months after the successful landing of the NASA InSight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses…