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What a Misplaced Meteorite Told Us About Mars

11 million years ago, Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the…

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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…

5 years ago

This Strange Feature on Mars was Probably the Result of an Ancient Volcanic Explosion

A strange feature on the surface of Mars has kept scientists guessing about its origin. It's a surface deposit of…

5 years ago

Lovely Green Olivine On Vesta Paints A Different Formation History

That ghoul-like sheen on the asteroid Vesta, as seen in the image above, is not some leftover of Hallowe'en. It's…

11 years ago