This image of Mariner 4 superimposed on an image of Mars was used to advertise the Mariner 4 mission. Credit: NASA Other than Earth, no…
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The GIF illustrates NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover utilizing a regolith sampling bit at the end of its robotic arm to collect rock and dust samples,…
Dust devils on Mars are small whirlwinds of dust that occur when the sun heats the surface of the planet, causing the air to rise…
Representation of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021 (S1094b) on the planet Mars and the propagation of surface waves to the SEIS seismometer of…
The biggest earthquake ever recorded on Mars has uncovered layers in its crust that could signify a previous collision with a large object, such as…
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s InSight lander with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. InSight’s package of weather sensors, called the Auxiliary Payload Subsystem…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Martian Surface for Possible Return to Earth
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on December 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the…
The location where NASA’s Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken by the Mars rover on December…
An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, was designed to give…
Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill bit to collect the mission’s first samples of regolith…
Hand sample of Dresser Formation stromatolite, showing a complex layered structure formed of hematite, barite, and quartz, and a domed upper surface (dome arrow). Credit:…
Wavefield simulation on Mars. The first observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of the planet’s crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science. Credit: ETH…
Artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large blob of warm and buoyant rock – rising from deep inside Mars and pushing up…
An asteroid collision may have caused a Martian megatsunami approximately 3.4 billion years ago. New research has identified an impact crater that could have resulted…
An artist’s impression of early Mars. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) Early MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth…
This illustration depicts Mars Helicopter Ingenuity during a test flight on Mars. Ingenuity was taken to the Red Planet strapped to the belly of the…
This image of “Yori Pass” was taken by a Hazcam imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on November 5, 2022.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Tantalizing opportunities for the…
Mars Sample Return is a mission to return Martian samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover to Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC NASAEstablished in 1958, the National…
An artist’s impression of Mars Express. The spacecraft left Earth for Mars on June 2, 2003. It reached its destination after a six-month journey, and…
This oblique perspective view of Tithonium Chasmata, which forms part of Mars’ Valles Marineris canyon structure, was generated from the digital terrain model and the…