Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough to have rivers and lakes
One of the great mysteries of modern space science is neatly summed up by the view from NASA's Perseverance, which just landed on Mars:
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Mars has right ingredients for microbial life beneath its surface, shows study
New study suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s...
Scientists discover new type of ancient crater lake on Mars
Researchers from Brown University have discovered a previously unknown type of ancient crater lake on Mars that could reveal clues about the planet's early...
Mars’ water is trapped in its crust, not escaped into space, shows new study
Large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space, shows new study.
Billions of years ago,...
What happened to Mars’s water? It is still trapped there!
Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue.
According to evidence still found on the surface, abundant water flowed across Mars and...
Dust particles from Mars can make little sparks
Friction that results from dry Martian dust particles making contact with each other may produce electrical discharge at the surface and in the planet’s...
Newly arrived Mars rovers are safe from lightning strikes, shows study
If experiments done in small bottles in a University of Oregon lab are accurate, the friction of colliding Martian dust particles are unlikely to...
How Mars 2020 will help bring part of the red planet back to Earth
Out in the cold, empty void beyond Earth, NASA's latest Mars mission is hurtling at 43,000 miles per hour toward the Red Planet.
The mission,...
What is causing those landslides on Mars?
Maybe underground salt and melting ice.
Changes in Mar’s geography always attract significant scientific and even public attention.
A hope for signs of liquid water (and...
6 things to know about NASA’s Mars helicopter on its way to Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying a small but mighty passenger: Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter.
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