Report: Images from Mars lander show liquid water
(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?
(AP) -- Did NASA's Phoenix Mars lander find evidence of liquid water before it froze to death?
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ESA's Mars Express has captured beautiful images of the icy cap sitting at Mars' north pole, complete with bright swathes of ice, dark troughs and depressions, and signs of strong winds and stormy activity.
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Using radar data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team found evidence of an ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars. Ice ages on Mars are driven by processes similar ...
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May 26, 2016
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Megaripples, intermediate-scale bedforms caused by the action of the wind, have been studied extensively and thought to be largely inactive relics of past climates, save for a few exceptions. A new paper by Planetary Science ...
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble.
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2010
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For decades, earthlings have dispatched spacecraft to Mars to study the planet's dusty surface and its thin atmosphere. Now NASA is sending a lander to the red planet to look deep into its heart.
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May 4, 2018
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Enjoy views of the martian north pole from all angles in this new animation from ESA's Mars Express.
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Dec 10, 2013
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On Sunday, about a dozen engineers and scientists gathered in the mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They listened intently through headsets while training their eyes on a curving wall of monitors to ...
Space Exploration
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