NASA rover detects electric discharges like 'mini-sonic booms' on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...
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Mars rover captures first close-up photos of giant 'spiderwebs' on the Red Planet

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New images from NASA's Curiosity rover show a series of "boxwork" ridges, which looks like large ...
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NASA's newest mission hopes to learn how and why Mars became a dead planet

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...
USA Today

A discovery on Mars has clues about 'humanity's oldest questions'

The search for life on Mars dates back about five decades, and a Sept. 10 announcement marks perhaps the most dramatic advancement yet. The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs ...

Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...
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Perseverance rover finds light-colored rocks in Jezero crater, offering new clues about Mars' wet past

The rocks were determined to be kaolinite, which is found in tropical regions on Earth.

We might be wrong about the color of Mars, scientists say

Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname ...
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Underground reservoir on Mars could fill oceans on the planet’s surface, study finds

Mars was likely a warmer, wetter place billions of years ago, based on the evidence of ancient lakes, river channels, deltas and rocks altered by water studied by other NASA missions and observed by ...
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How We Could Warm Mars

The surface of Mars averages about -80 degrees Fahrenheit, well too cold to be suitable for microbial life. A method using engineered dust particles released into the atmosphere that could ...
PBS

Mars by Andrew Fraknoi

Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun and the one that has most intrigued humanity over the years. It was named after the god of war because its reddish soil gives the planet a scarlet hue in the ...
Space.com

The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month

We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter solstice and March's vernal equinox. That moment took place at 4:11 p.m.