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Mars orbiter spots retired InSight lander to study dust movement

MARS
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar...

New study says we’re unlikely to find liquid water on Mars anytime soon

MARS
More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from...

A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning

MARS
Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside...

Oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars found

MARS
New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may...

The new Mars landing approach: How we’ll land large payloads on the Red Planet

MARS
Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he...

Carbon dioxide collapse: How water flowed on an icy Mars

ASTRONOMY
On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ceilings,...

Could life exist below Mars ice? Study proposes possibilities

MARS
While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen...

How did magma oceans evolve on early Earth and Mars? Iron chemistry and primordial atmospheres offer clues

MARS
Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching down hundreds...

Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for...

Study uncovers first evidence of a volcanic spatter cone on Mars

MARS
While working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences at University of Idaho, a postdoctoral researcher identified...

Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet: Researchers urge bringing them back to Earth

ASTRONOMY
Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water...

Analysis of NASA InSight data suggests Mars hit by meteoroids more often than thought

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is still leading to seismic...
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