Despite receiving just 30% of the Earth’s present-day insolation, Mars had water lakes and rivers early in the planet’s history, due to an unknown ...
These images are pretty enough to put on a Christmas card.
A large, previously unrecognized reservoir of water ice on Mars is well preserved and formed within the past few million years, says a paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Daniel C. Berman.
The Mars Express orbiter has detected enough water ice buried beneath the Red Planet's equator to cover the entire planet in a shallow ocean if melted.
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests.
A vertically exaggerated view of Mars’ north polar cap. Researchers with The University of Texas at Austin and the University…
In a surprising outcome, re-analysing old data finds ice where none was thought to survive, reports Richard A Lovett.
Trapped layer of cold air keeps water frozen in 50-mile-wide impact crater
Some four billion years ago, when Mars had an atmosphere, it probably looked a lot like Earth: warm, wet and habitable. Mars once had clouds, snowy mountaintops, fresh lakes, and a deep ocean. Mars…
A vertically exaggerated view of Mars’ north polar cap. Researchers with The University of Texas at Austin and the University…
These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of Mars’ surface and represent the latest data from the SWIM project. Buried ice will be a vital resource for astronauts on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel.
"Just as getting rock samples can provide clues to Mars' early history, ice will give us clues to Mars' recent history."
Mars has many similarities to Earth.
But details about the project remain scarce.
"Just as getting rock samples can provide clues to Mars' early history, ice will give us clues to Mars' recent history."
A European orbiter has detected “significant amounts of water” in Mars’ version of the Grand Canyon.
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on
Curving wriggles seen in sand dunes on Earth and formed by the recent ebb and flow of water have just been found on Mars.
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface lakes below the Martian south pole.
Mars Ice Home is a feasibility study conducted at NASA Langley Research Center in 2016 in collaboration with human-centered space design studio SEArch+ and architects from CloudsAO. The concept incorporates in situ resource utilization derived water-ice for radiation shielding and as a structural component.
A research team has published some intriguing work in Nature Geoscience regarding transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars – the exploration zone of NASA’s Curiosity rover.
A new study shows that Mars may very well be volcanically active.
New research has shown that Mars may have been covered in a worldwide ocean when Earth was still covered in molten lava.
Water ice can't persist on Mars surface in the region of Utopia Planitia, about halfway from Mars' equator to its pole. But researchers say there's water in a vast frozen lake underground.
Researchers just uncovered an incredible fact about liquid water on Mars. It's not just flowing; it's also boiling.
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars's surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new UBC research published today in Nature Geoscience. The findings effectively throw cold water on the dominant "warm and wet ancient Mars" hypothesis, which postulates that rivers, rainfall and oceans once existed on the red planet.
The spiders on Mars form during the planet's springtime when temperatures rise and rays of sunlight touch the ice layers of carbon dioxide.
We know that Mars was once much wetter than it is now, but the questions of when water formed and evaporated away are much more difficult to answer.
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring.
The same tools scientists use to understand Earth's climate history may work on Mars, too
The nighttime events are among initial results from the InSight lander, which also found hints that the red planet may host a global reservoir of liquid water deep below the surface.
This month's roundup of the best space-related imagery in the known universe includes a supernova, a cluster of stars kidnapped from a neighbouring galaxy by the Milky Way, an eggy nebula and bizarre carbon dioxide frost on Mars
