Mars is still an active world—here’s a landslide in Nili Fossae Since the 1960s and ’70s, scientists have come to view Mars as something of a “dead planet.” As the first close-up images from orbit […]
Researchers find Mars has a Chandler wobble A combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler […]
Making methane on Mars Among the many challenges with a Mars voyage, one of the most pressing is: How can you get enough fuel for the spacecraft to fly back to Earth? Houlin Xin, an […]
Ice-rich flow features in Martian southern hemisphere reveal effects of recent climate cycles A large, previously unrecognized reservoir of water ice on Mars is well preserved and formed within the past few million years, says […]
A finding hints at the possibility that life may have existed on Mars. Field geology at Mars’ equator points to ancient megaflood. Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around […]
Earth’s most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars. Clay subsoil at Earth’s driest place may signal life on Mars. microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile’s dry Atacama […]