Mars
Sites to Look for Life on Mars
OMEGA instrument has identified clay beds which supported life in the past. Image credit: ESA/OMEGA. Click to enlarge ESA's Mars…
Building an Antimatter Spaceship
If you're looking to build a powerful spaceship, nothing's better than antimatter. It's lightweight, extremely powerful and could generate tremendous…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Adjusts its Orbit
The large Argyre Basin in Mars' southern hemisphere. Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS. Click to enlarge NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent…
Mars Rovers Head for New Sites After Studying Layers
Coarse-grained layers inside Mars' Gusev Crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell. Click to enlarge NASA engineers have moved the Spirit Mars rover…
Mars Wants You to Have a Nice Day
This is a photograph of the unusually happy Galle Crater on Mars. ESA's Mars Express took a series of 5…
First Colour Images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
First colour images from MRO. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. Click to enlarge. The first full colour photographs are back…
Mars Aerobraking Begins
Image showing the heat being emitted from the day and night side of Mars. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge…
Libya Montes Valley on Mars
ESA's Mars Express took this photograph of Libya Montes, which is south of the large Isidis Planitia impact basin on…
First Photo from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
A portion of the first full-resolution image returned by MRO. Image credit: NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge. After years of development…
Debris Filled Craters on Mars
This photograph was taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. It shows a mountain in the eastern Hellas Planitia region with…