Follow the exploration of Mars through orbiters, landers and rovers, with explainers on Martian geology, climate, water and habitability.
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Mars exploration combines orbiters, landers, rovers and laboratory analysis on Earth to reconstruct the planet's history. Missions have turned Mars from a distant reddish point into a world with mapped geology, ancient river channels,.
Mars has abundant water in the form of ice and extensive geological evidence that liquid water shaped its surface in the past. The key question is no…
NASA is sponsoring a project to develop a specially designed aircraft capable of flying on Mars to search for signs of life on Mars.
Nearly five decades ago, NASA launched the Viking Program (1975-1983), an American unmanned Mars exploration program to search for signs of life on t…
Jim Green, NASA's chief scientific officer, said they were nearing the point of discovering life on Mars, but he feared that the world was not ready…
Mars once had environments that could have been more favorable to life than its present surface. Geological evidence shows that liquid water existed…
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The cloud formed above the Arsia Mons volcano before dawn, then expanded at speeds up to 600 km/h before dissipating.
The NASA robot completed its mission as originally planned, lasting 687 Earth days or a Martian year, and began its extended mission.
Mars robot Zhu Rong cannot wake up from hibernation because its solar panels are covered by a thick layer of dust.
The first recording of a dust storm on the surface of Mars revealed that the dust tornado that 'swallowed' the Perseverance robot in September 2021 was 119 m high.
An error in calculating the remaining fuel of the 22-year-old Mars Odyssey orbiter had experts thinking it was about to end its mission.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) posted a panoramic image of a Martian sunset taken by the Curiosity rover, made up of 28 small images.
NASA will develop nuclear rockets to cut the time it takes to make a manned trip to Mars from seven months to 45 days.
If Mars suddenly disappeared, the first thing Elon Musk would probably have to face is a crowd of confused investors.
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Japanese scientists have figured out how life on Mars could have emerged parallel to life on Earth.
A new technique performed by Martian warrior Curiostiy has helped uncover traces of the previously unknown building blocks of life on this mysterious planet.
In the September 19 report, NASA led the analysis of data transmitted from the Curiosity vessel to show that the methane gas density in Mars atmosphere is only about 1.3…
NASA's Perseverance rover has collected soil and rock samples on Mars to bring back to Earth for research.
Researchers from Harvard University (USA) have discovered a
Russian scientists have developed a new way to find life on Mars and other celestial bodies in the Solar System.
Recently, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter of the European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) has recently officially started a mission to search for life on Mars.
Three scientists said they had discovered a best place to look for evidence of previous life on Mars. It is an area likely to be the youngest lake in Mars.
Ancient life on Mars may have been destroyed by the use of nuclear weapons of other planetary civilizations.
The water on Mars and Earth is of the same origin, most likely from meteorites hitting the surface of these bodies during the formation phase.
According to a reporter in Russia, April 6, in Moscow, Director of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos), Mr. Vladimir Popovkin and Director of the European Space Agency…