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New Martian Crater Reveals Far-Reaching Seismic Signals
Feb 04, 2025 (SPX)
Recent findings show that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that penetrate farther into the planet's interior than once believed. Two new studies...
Texas A&M scholar secures NASA funding to examine Martian dune dynamics
Feb 04, 2025 (SPX)
Berger's project, Insights into the Martian Environment Through Pattern Analysis of Compound Dunes, leverages detailed snapshots from NASA spacecraft to examine...
Meteor collision shakes Mars recorded by InSight
Feb 04, 2025 (SPX)
Marsquakes, the martian counterparts of earthquakes, commonly coincide with meteor strikes on our neighboring planet. Over the past two decades, scientists have...
Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars atmosphere
Jan 29, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have uncovered the chemical processes that allowed Mars to sustain w...
Approaching the Red Planet from the Kitchen
Jan 29, 2025 (SPX)
These features, also known as pseudocraters, are prevalent in Iceland, with smaller occurrences along the coastline of Hawaii's Big Island. However, extensive r...
Now That's Ingenuity: First Aircraft Measurement of Winds on Another Planet
Jan 23, 2025 (SPX)
In February 2021, Mars got two new inhabitants: the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter, bundled together in NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity mad...
ORBIMARS: A proposed terminology for Mars orbital operations
Jan 23, 2025 (SPX)
As humanity extends its reach to Mars, we face a compelling need to define and characterize the complex orbital environment of our neighboring planet. The intro...
New marsquake data sheds light on the Martian crust mystery
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
The study addresses the long-standing mystery of the Martian dichotomy, where the southern hemisphere's crust is significantly thicker and lies five to six kilo...
NASA Sets Sights on Mars Terrain with Revolutionary Tire Tech
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
Rovers - mobile robots that explore lunar or planetary surfaces - must be equipped with adequate tires for the environments they're exploring. As Mars has an un...
Mysterious Martian mounds formed by ancient water
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists have dug into the history of these geological features ahead of a new mission to the red planet, revealing a time when water flowed across its surfac...
Trump vows to plant flag on Mars, omits mention of Moon return
Jan 20, 2025 (AFP)
During his first term, the Republican launched the Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon as a stepping stone to the Red Planet -- yet even then he ex...
The Mars Pivot
Jan 20, 2025 (SPX)
President Trump's inaugural declaration to 'pursue our manifest destiny into the stars' and 'plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars'- is not anymore cam...
Signatures of Ice-Free Ancient Ponds and Lakes Found on Mars
Jan 17, 2025 (SPX)
Ripples are one of the clearest indicators of an ancient standing body of water that can be provided by the geologic record. The team estimates that the ripples...
Samples from Mars to reveal planet's evolutionary secrets
Jan 13, 2025 (SPX)
Current insights into the Red Planet's evolution stem largely from spacecraft observations and meteorite analysis. These meteorites, primarily found in deserts ...
NASA to evaluate dual strategies for bringing Mars samples back to Earth
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
The Mars Sample Return Program aims to unlock secrets of the universe and address fundamental questions about the possibility of past life on Mars. A definitive...
NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs
Jan 07, 2025 (AFP)
Originally planned to deliver 30 sample tubes to Earth by the 2030s, the Mars Sample Return mission has faced rising expenses and delays, prompting the US space...
January's Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet
Jan 06, 2025 (SPX)
Martian Retrograde Mars entered retrograde (or backward movement relative to its usual direction) on December 7, 2024, and will continue throughout January into...
University of Houston scientists solving meteorological mysteries on Mars
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
The study, led by Larry Guan, a graduate student in the Department of Physics at UH's College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, under the guidance of his adv...
Evidence exists for hidden water reservoirs and rare magmas on ancient Mars
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
The study, led by Rice University's Cin-Ty Lee, demonstrates that the southern highlands' thick crust - up to 80 kilometers in some areas - was hot enough durin...
Frosty landscape captured at Mars' South Pole
Dec 26, 2024 (SPX)
A closer examination of the left side of the image reveals dark areas where the carbon dioxide ice has sublimated - transitioning directly from a solid to vapor...
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