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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...

New class of Mars quakes reveals daily meteorite strikes

MARS
An international team of researchers, co-led by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, has derived the first estimate of global meteorite impacts on Mars...

NASA is considering other ways of getting its Mars samples home

ASTRONOMY
In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission collected soil and rock...

First detection of frost on the solar system’s tallest volcanoes on Mars

ASTRONOMY
For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system....

Fifty-year mystery of Mars’ slow polar ice flow solved

ASTRONOMY
Mars polar ice caps were one of the first Earth-like characteristics identified on Mars. Since the development of film in the 19th Century, researchers...
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