NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 17, 2019, the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its black-and-white Navigation…
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Jezero crater, where NASA plans to land a new Mars rover next year, is home to the remains of an ancient river delta. Researchers have…
An artist’s rendering of Mars Pathfinder, which consisted of a lander and the first-ever robotic rover on the surface of the Red Planet. The documentary…
This time-lapse video, taken on October 9, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the move of the Mars 2020 rover into…
This time-lapse video, taken on October 8, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has…
This color image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed on August…
Filled with briny lakes, the Quisquiro salt flat in South America’s Altiplano represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale…
In this picture from September 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the Mars 2020 spacecraft at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, look…
Clouds drift over the dome-covered seismometer, known as SEIS, belonging to NASA’s InSight lander, on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Put an ear to the ground on…
A provocative new study looks at the resource utilization and technological strategies that would be needed to make a Mars population of one million people…
Robin Wordsworth is one of the researchers studying how Mars may be made livable. Kris Snibbe/Harvard file photo People have long dreamed of altering the…
Comparison images of Mars taken by Hubble (left) and showing a global dust storm that engulfed it (right). Astronomers studying dust storms in the Aonia-Solis-Valles…
The Mars 2020 rover is headed for Jezero crater. In addition to a stunning river delta, Jezero also has exposures of the potential ashfall deposit…
This final traverse map for NASA’s Opportunity rover shows where the rover was located within Perseverance Valley on June 10, 2018, the last date it…
Thin section of ALH-77005 in plane polarized light. The studied area by FTIR spectroscopy is marked by rectangle, where the strongputative microbially mediated alteration was…
The Martian South Pole. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters argues there needs to be an underground source of heat for liquid water to…