Mars famously has the largest volcanoes known to science. The largest is Olympus Mons, pictured above, which towers 22km above the surrounding plains – over two and a half times taller than Mount Everest. This extinct volcano ...
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2017
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(AP)—NASA plans to make oxygen—a key ingredient of rocket fuel—on Mars early next decade.
Space Exploration
Aug 1, 2014
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India's launches its first mission to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet with a programme designed to showcase its low-cost space technology.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion "the seven minutes of terror" that people around the world have anticipated since launch a year ago, the intrepid rover will actually ...
Space Exploration
Aug 3, 2012
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NASA on Monday began the countdown to the launch of a new Mars spacecraft on a mission to study how the air on the Red Planet has changed over time.
Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2013
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A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there.
Space Exploration
May 30, 2012
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As the Mars InSight lander begins listening to the interior of Mars, some scientists are already proposing that some marsquakes could be signals of groundwater beneath the frozen surface of the Red Planet.
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009
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Astronomers studying Mars first noted the presence of yellow clouds on its surface in the 1870's. Today these windblown dust storms on Mars are well known, and can span local, regional or even global in scale. Storms can ...
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2017
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NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere.
Space Exploration
May 2, 2013
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