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Close up of Mars in the middle of an ice age
Conquer Mars

Close up of Mars in the middle of an ice age

NASA has just released images that have been taken by their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter more than a decade before approaching Mars's Arctic region.

December 18, 2018
The NASA ship found robots landing on Mars
Space science

The NASA ship found robots landing on Mars

The NASA spacecraft orbits Mars orbit to detect the location of the Schiaparelli amphibious robot after opening it too early and crashing into the planet's surface.

December 17, 2018
Sand dunes are leeches on Mars
Space science

Sand dunes are leeches on Mars

The camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) took a picture of the Martian sand dune shaped like a large leech.

December 17, 2018
NASA explains strange images on Mars
Space science

NASA explains strange images on Mars

Mars probes once captured images that shocked viewers because they carried the form of a woman, a piece of a femur or a human face.

December 17, 2018
Traces Soviet missing ships on Mars
Space science

Traces Soviet missing ships on Mars

Some amateur scientists in Russia say they found the resting place of a Soviet ship that had been missing nearly 42 years ago.

December 17, 2018
Spotted sunbathing spiders on Mars
Space science

Spotted sunbathing spiders on Mars

The strange spider-shaped objects discovered on the surface of Mars are making a lot of interesting speculations.

December 17, 2018
Earthquake on Mars
Space science

Earthquake on Mars

Photographs by the spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many rocks falling from a cliff on the surface of Mars and leaving deep trenches on the dust. The stones h…

December 17, 2018
Mars has many large ice lakes
Space science

Mars has many large ice lakes

The probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered huge ice lakes beneath the layers of rocks and mountains on Mars.

December 17, 2018