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The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic ...
A new study uses inversions of orbital gravity and magnetic field data to argue for the presence of ancient, long-lasting hydrothermal systems on Mars.
Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...
A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong ...
Mars just threw us another curveball. NASA’s Perseverance rover recently uncovered a surprising rock formation. On the lower ...
The ocean covers 71% of Earth's surface, yet we have better maps of the Moon, Mars and Venus than we do of the ocean floor, ...
Landing safely on the surface of another planetary body, like the Moon or Mars, is one of the most important milestones of any given space mission. From the very beginning, NASA's Langley Research ...
Curious about what planets look like through a telescope? This guide breaks down what you’ll see based on your telescope’s ...
But what about crewed missions? In the coming decades, NASA and the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMS) plan to send astronauts and taikonauts to Mars. These missions will include months of surface ...
They were detected in a drilled rock sample called “Cumberland” that was analyzed by the Sample Analysis at Mars lab inside the belly of NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover, whose selfie is on the right ...
To address these limitations, the researchers developed the GLOSTFM model, which combines the "image pyramid ... off between high resolution and extensive coverage in land surface temperature ...
took these images as it approached Mars from about 357,300 miles This global map of Mars, based on data from NASA Mars Odyssey, shows estimates for amounts of high-energy-particle cosmic radiation ...