Mars
Learning to Live Sustainably on the Red Planet: Habitat Mars
As the only Mars analog environment in the Southern hemisphere, Habitat Marte is conducting research that will allow humans to…
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Normally the images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently sitting near “Bloodstone Hill” on Mars, are of alien vistas and rock…
Amazing View of How Dust Storms Grow on Mars
In 2018, Mars experienced one of its global dust storms, a phenomenon seen nowhere else. As science would have it,…
ExoMars Sees the Martian Atmosphere Glowing Green
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) recently spotted a green glow in Mars' atmosphere, which is similar to what Earth's atmosphere…
New Pictures of Phobos, Seen in the Infrared
NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter doesn't get a lot of headlines lately. It was sent to Mars in 2001, to detect…
Ideas for Sustainable Cities and Urban Farming… on Mars?
The annual Mars City Design Challenge is looking for new and innovative ideas for how humans could live sustainably on…
Finally! Mars InSight’s Mole is Now Underground
It looks like the InSight Lander's Mole instrument is making some progress. After months of perseverance, the team operating the…
Evidence that Mars Used to Have a Ring
Mars only has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. They're strange, for moons, little more than lumpy, potato-shaped chunks of rock.…
Mars Doesn’t Have Much of a Magnetosphere, But Here’s a Map
Even though Earthling scientists are studying Mars intently, it's still a mysterious place. One of the striking things about Mars…
On Mars, mud flows like lava
One of the most striking features on Earth are the curious flows of lava as it cools, forming undulating ropes…