Tag: mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover shows off collection of Mars samples

Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot—a...

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds surprise clues to Mars’s watery past

Among other discoveries made by the Curiosity rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to...

Is there life on Mars? Maybe, and it could have dropped its teddy

Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There's a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway. The beaming face of a cute-looking teddy...

The rich meteorology of Mars studied in detail from the Perseverance rover

Perseverance is a NASA autonomous vehicle that arrived at the Jezero Crater (the bed of an ancient, now dried-up lake on Mars) on February...

NASA’s Perseverance rover deposits first sample on Mars surface

A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet's surface after being placed there on Dec. 21 by NASA's Perseverance...

Experimentalists: Sorry, no oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars

When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists...

NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars

Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet's coldest season. When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into...

NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after four years

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars. The lander's...

Where are the best places to land humans on Mars?

Want to go to Mars? Great, now all you need to do is plan a mission. Figure out where to land, what to bring,...

How Mars’ thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes

Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are not quite like anything...

New lidar technique could help robotic vehicles land safely on Mars

In a new study, scientists demonstrate a new lidar technique that could help robotic vehicles avoid hazards when landing during future missions to Mars...

Long-lived lakes reveal a history of water on Mars

The northern hemisphere of Mars is divided into two broadly distinctive areas: the smooth northern lowlands and the pockmarked southern highlands. The region of...

Recent articles

spot_img