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New clues to Mars habitability in discovery of ancient beach
Jan 30, 2026 (SPX)
In an international study led by Imperial College London, researchers uncovered that the so-called Margin unit in Marss Jezero crater preserves evidence of exte...
Ancient deltas reveal vast Martian ocean across northern hemisphere
Jan 13, 2026 (SPX)
The work focuses on a sector of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars, where previous mineralogical studies had already hinted at long lived water...
Tiny Mars' big impact on Earth's climate
Jan 12, 2026 (SPX)
Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, began this project with doubts about recent studies tying Earth's ancient climate patterns ...
Sandblasting winds sculpt Mars landscape
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
In northern Eumenides Dorsum, the yardangs share a common orientation that reflects a dominant wind direction sweeping in from the south-east and curving across...
The electrifying science behind Martian dust
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
Planetary scientist Alian Wang has been shedding light on Mars' electrifying dust activities through a series of papers. Her latest research, published in Earth...
Thin ice may have protected lake water on frozen Mars
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in AGU Advances Dec. 29, offers a new explanation for how lakes might have existed without a warm climate and why ancient Martian lake beds...
Curiosity's Nevado Sajama postcard captures Mars on the eve of conjunction
Jan 03, 2026 (SPX)
The ridge where Curiosity is parked belongs to the so-called boxwork unit, a landscape of resistant ribs and eroded hollows that the team has been dissecting wi...
Wind-Sculpted Landscapes: Investigating the Martian Megaripple 'Hazyview'
Dec 26, 2025 (SPX)
Despite Mars' thin atmosphere today (2% of the Earth's atmospheric density), wind is one of the main drivers of change at the surface, eroding local bedrock int...
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun
Dec 26, 2025 (JPL)
As part of a pre-planned transect between our two recent drill holes, "Valle de la Luna" (hollow) and "Nevado Sajama" (ridge), we successfully completed chemica...
NASA team presses MAVEN recovery before Mars solar conjunction
Dec 26, 2025 (SPX)
Specialists are processing fragments of tracking data captured on Dec. 6 during a radio science campaign. That partial signal indicates MAVEN was rotating in an...
Search for life should be top science priority for first human landing on Mars report says
Dec 22, 2025 (SPX)
The report concludes that human explorers offer scientific capabilities that cannot be replicated by robotic missions alone, particularly in complex geological ...
Perseverance rover cleared for long distance Mars exploration
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
Built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Perseverance is following up the long-running Curiosity rover and was designed fr...
HiRISE camera aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes 100000 image milestone
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
The milestone image, acquired on Oct. 7, shows mesas and sand dunes in Syrtis Major, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, the landing site...
GoMars model simulates Martian dust storms to improve mission safety
Dec 16, 2025 (SPX)
Mars is dominated by a dry, dusty desert landscape where winds and rotating columns of air lift fine particles into the atmosphere and later return them to the ...
Ancient Martian brines left bromine rich fingerprints in jarosite minerals
Dec 14, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chengdu University of Technology synthesized potassium-and sodium-jar...
Maven stays silent after routine pass behind Mars
Dec 14, 2025 (SPX)
As MAVEN moved behind Mars, communications with the Deep Space Network (DSN) cut off as expected, but controllers did not reacquire the downlink when the orbite...
NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions
Dec 11, 2025 (JPL)
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Wednesday inaugurated its Rover Operations Center (ROC), a center of excellence for current and futur...
Martian butterfly crater reveals low angle impact and buried lava history
Dec 08, 2025 (SPX)
Under typical impact conditions, debris spreads out in all directions, but in this case the oblique trajectory produced an oval crater and asymmetric ejecta. So...
Martian sound study models acoustic signals in Jezero crater
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
Using these sound measurements to the best extent possible requires an accurate understanding of how sound propagates on Mars. Charlie Zheng, a professor of mec...
Chinese team runs long term Martian dust cycle simulation with GoMars model
Dec 04, 2025 (SPX)
The team at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the results in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, focusing on the...
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