Curiosity is exploring Mars’ boxwork terrain, where ridges and hollows may have formed from cementation and erosion. The ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just added a curious new piece to the ever-evolving puzzle of Mars. While climbing the lower ...
For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution, cataloging a huge range of features on its surface, studying their composition, and, in a few cases, dispatching ...
For years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater, ...
Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...
First, let’s discuss Utopia Planitia on Mars, which is quite a large area in the northern hemisphere of the planet. Previously, the Zhurong rover landed here for exploration. Guess what? It found some ...
Very interesting article and paper. Plateau retreat, deposition, and and shorelines tend toward a large body of water as an explanation except that rock layers and shorelines also say "no" to that as ...
Planetary geologists reply that these impressions usually result from pareidolia, the tendency for the brain to see familiar shapes in random patterns, a tendency Carl Sagan long ago called an ...
For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team, ...