Curiosity is exploring Mars’ boxwork terrain, where ridges and hollows may have formed from cementation and erosion. The ...
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 ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just added a curious new piece to the ever-evolving puzzle of Mars. While climbing the lower ...
Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...
For years, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater, ...
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 ...
This is the Martian 'spider' landform, whose formation mechanism has long puzzled the scientific community, but now ...
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, ...