Rocks Collected on Mars Hold Key to Water and Perhaps Life on the Planet: Bring Them Back to Earth Aug. 14, 2024 — Between July and November of 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected seven ...

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Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river features.

Like Earth, Mars was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, but its early surface was very different than today's. Mars' surface then had high rates of meteorite and asteroid impacts from the period ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in ...

"If, as has been reported, China successfully executes even a 'grab sample' at Mars and returns it safely to Earth before the ...

inside Mars, which is roughly half the diameter of Earth, the geodynamo cooled quickly as heat leaked away and convection ...

Something called the Earth Return Orbiter is to depart in 2027, and park itself in orbit around Mars. One year after that, a lander will be launched. The lander would set down on Mars and release ...

Mars’ volcanoes tower over any of the highest mountains on Earth. NASA formed a panel called the Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group to plan the future mission. I co-chaired the ...

Mars is about half the diameter of Earth, and that’s where things went wrong. The Martian core cooled quickly, soon leaving the planet without a magnetic field. This, in turn, left it vulnerable ...

This observation sparked a hypothesis that became central to her doctoral dissertation: the valley networks on Mars might have been formed under climatic conditions akin to those of Earth's Lower ...

Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific ...