NASA’s Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and December 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS To go along with the…
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A Southwest Research Institute team performed high-resolution, smoothed-particle simulations of a large, differentiated projectile hitting early Mars after its core and mantle had formed. The…
In this artist’s concept of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet’s subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen…
InSight is the first mission dedicated to investigating the deep interior of Mars. The findings will advance understanding of how all rocky planets, including Earth,…
While InSight’s seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki…
NASA InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the “mole,” in preparation to push on its top, or back cap.…
Graphic illustrating radio signals from a remote station (bent purple line) interfering with a local station (black tower) after being reflected off a plasma layer…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has obtained the mineralogical and chemical data of ancient lake deposits at Gale Crater, Mars. The present study reconstructs water chemistry of…
This illustration depicts NASA’s next Mars rover, which launches in 2020. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12…
This image shows part of the ice cap sitting at Mars’ north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs…
[embedded content] What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020? The peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, Mars rises with its “rival” — the red…
The annotated area of Mars in this illustration holds near-surface water ice that would be easily accessible for astronauts to dig up. The water ice…
Computer-generated visualization of the orbital paths (white dots) taken by the MAVEN spacecraft as it mapped winds (blue lines) in the Martian upper atmosphere. Red…
Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft. As the first CubeSat to enter…
An example of a banded iron formation (BIF). The Soudan Iron-Formation is a Neoarchean-aged BIF unit in the Vermilion Greenstone Belt of northeastern Minnesota, USA.…
A life-like structure created in the lab by chemical gardening. Credit: Sean McMahon The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by…
Mars Before and After Dust Storm: Side-by-side movies shows how the 2018 global dust storm enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager…
A specimen whose head appears to have turned in the direction of the camera. Based on the scale provided in the photo from which this…
Scientists from NASA’s Mars 2020 and ESA’s ExoMars projects study stromatolites, the oldest confirmed fossilized lifeforms on Earth, in the Pilbara region of North West…
Lighter colors represent higher elevation in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the…