Since antiquity, Mars has been a source of myth, lore, and inspiration. It is also an exciting place to research — a legitimate candidate for us to find some form of alien life. Since the 1960s, Mars has been a popular destination for space missions. For the first time, NASA has invited the private sector ...
Elon Musk is thrilled about going to space and has big plans. He wants people to be able to stay on Mars and grow. The name for this process is “terraforming.” Terraforming is like making Mars more like Earth so people would want to live there. Elon Musk wants people to love life on Mars. ...
Robotic rovers are currently exploring the surface of Mars. Part of a rover’s mission is to survey the planet for signs of life. There might be nothing to find — but what if there is, and the rovers just can’t “see” it? New research published in Nature Communications suggests the rovers’ current equipment might not ...
When NASA’s Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters in 2014, the discovery sparked speculation from scientists. Some scientists suggested that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere billions of years ago. The minerals probably required abundant water and strongly oxidizing conditions to form, ...
A study published in Science analyzes multiple rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in 2020, revealing significant interaction between the rocks and liquid water. Those rocks also contain evidence consistent with the presence of organic compounds. The existence of organic compounds (chemical compounds with carbon-hydrogen bonds) is not ...
It may be known as a rocky, red planet, but the evidence is mounting that salty water exists at the base of polar deposits on Mars. University of Southern Queensland‘s Professor Graziella Caprarelli is part of an international team investigating bright reflection signals below the Martian surface, first spotted in data acquired between 2010 and ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover will establish the first sample depot on Mars. The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from the planet was made on October 19 with a formal agreement between NASA and its partner ESA (European Space Agency). The two agencies will proceed with the creation of a sample ...
A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that the planet once experienced sea-level rise consistent with an extended warm and wet climate, not the harsh, frozen landscape that exists today. Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn ...
Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm whether they have a core at the heart of their existence. This method has been used to confirm a Martian core. The scanning method, which is similar to an ultrasound scan that uses sound waves to generate images of ...
What exactly happened on Mars? What other amazing secrets were discovered during the recent investigations by the U.S., and what was hidden inside that huge pyramid? Why has it been kept from us all these years?
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