Mars
This Dried Up Riverbed Shows that Water Once Flowed on the Surface of Mars
From some viewpoints, Mars is kind of like a skeleton of Earth. We can see that it had volcanoes, oceans,…
Curiosity Finds A Region of Ancient Dried Mud. It Could Have Been an Oasis Billions of Year Ago
What happened to Mars? If Mars and Earth were once similar, as scientists think, what happened to all the water?…
Here’s NASA’s New Plan to Get InSight’s Temperature Probe Into Mars
The mole is still stuck. The mole is the name given to the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)…
InSight Has Already Detected 21 Marsquakes
The SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument on NASA's InSight lander has sensed 21 Marsquakes since it was deployed…
Confirmed. Fossils That Formed 3.5 billion Years Ago, Really are Fossils. The Oldest Evidence of Life Found So Far
The title of Earth's Earliest Life has been returned to the fossils in the Pilbara region of Australia. The Pilbara…
Nothing Says Springtime on Mars Like Explosions of Sand
Springtime on Earth can be a riotous affair, as plants come back to life and creatures large and small get…
It Hasn’t Rained on Mars for a Long Time, but These Sand Dunes Look Like Raindrops, and They’re Filled with Chemicals Made in Water
A recent image from the MRO shows rows of olivine-rich dunes in the Copernicus Crater on Mars, a feature that…
Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
Work on the Mars 2020 Rover is heating up as the July/August 2020 launch date approaches. Mission engineers just attached…
ExoMars Parachute Test Fails, for the Second Time
The ExoMars 2020 mission hit another snag recently when a high-altitude parachute test resulted in damage again to one of…
Blankets of Silica Aerogel Could Make Parts of Mars Habitable
The idea of somehow terra-forming Mars to make it more habitable is a visionary, sci-fi dream. But though global terra-forming…