“Mind Boggling” Mars Mystery As Oxygen Doesn’t Behave by Known Chemistry
For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above…
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Mineral That Could Preserve Signs of Past Life Spotted at Future Mars Landing Spot
Using orbital instruments to peer into Jezero crater, the landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, researchers found deposits of hydrated silica, a mineral that’s…
‘The Pathfinders’ Trains Lens on Daring Mission to Mars
The era NASA called “Faster, Better, Cheaper” started with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreeing to land something on Mars – cheaply – and to do…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Heads Into Huge Vacuum Chamber for Testing
In this time-lapse video, taken on October 9, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, bunny-suited engineers move the Mars 2020 rover from…
Testing Potential Materials for Use in Interplanetary Travel With Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
If humankind reaches Mars this century, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed experiment testing advanced materials for spacecraft may play a key role. NASA is considering…
“Mars Chemist” – NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Shows Off in New Selfie
A new selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it’s especially meaningful for the mission’s team: Stitched together from 57 individual images…
That’s One Small Step for a Mars Rover – Mars 2020 Stands on Its Own Six Wheels for the First Time
This time-lapse video, taken on October 8, 2019, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has…
Martian Landslides Not Conclusive Evidence of Ice – Analysis of State-of-the-Art Satellite Data Reveals
Giant ridges on the surface of landslides on Mars could have formed without ice, challenging their use by some as unequivocal evidence of past ice…
Mars Once Had Salt Lakes Similar to Earth – “Key Ingredient of Microbial Life”
Texas A&M researchers found that Mars has undergone wet and dry periods and salt lakes formed similar to some found in South America. Mars once…
Win for Space Colonization: Soil on Moon and Mars Likely to Support Crops
Mars soil simulant comparable to soil on Earth Researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds a 100-Mile-Wide Ancient Oasis on Mars [Video]
If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity…
NASA Engineers and Technicians Test Mars 2020 Rover Descent-Stage Separation
In this picture from September 28, 2019, engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft look on as a…
NASA Devises Clever Tactic to Save the Mars InSight Lander’s Heat Probe
NASA’s InSight lander, which is on a mission to explore the deep interior of Mars, positioned its robotic arm this past weekend to assist the…
Eerie Sounds on Mars Picked Up by NASA’s InSight Lander [Audio/Video]
Put an ear to the ground on Mars and you’ll be rewarded with a symphony of sounds. Granted, you’ll need superhuman hearing, but NASA’s InSight…
Could We Feed One Million People Living on Mars? A Provocative New Study With a Detailed Model.
A provocative new study looks at the resource utilization and technological strategies that would be needed to make a Mars population of one million people…
Rover McRoverface: NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover
Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its…
Scientists Reveal What a Marsquake Looks Like
Southern California got all shook up after a set of recent quakes. But Earth isn’t the only place that experiences quakes: Both the Moon and…
New Study Reveals A Way To Make Mars Habitable
People have long dreamed of altering the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside the realm of science…