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The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...
Imagine, about 4.5 billion years ago, Mars was a young, vibrant world. At that time, massive celestial impacts were frequent, some powerful enough to melt the Martian crust and part of the mantle, ...
Viking 2, a Mars lander nearly identical to Viking 1, successfully landed on Mars approximately one month after Viking 1's ...
Recent studies of gravity variations on Mars have uncovered dense, large-scale structures beneath sediment layers where an ...
Liquid water once shaped the Martian landscape dramatically, carving valleys, filling lakes, and forming vast oceans. Billions of years ago, during Mars' early days known as the Noachian and ...
New research presented at the Europlanet Science Congress this week has uncovered astonishing findings beneath the dusty surface of Mars. The study points to evidence that suggests the Red Planet ...
NASA scientists have discovered additional evidence that Mars once underwent plate tectonics, slow movement of the planet’s crust, like the present-day Earth. A new map of Mars’ magnetic field ...
Space robotics experts have created a team of intelligent robots that can be lofted to Mars to map lava tubes that could provide havens for the first human explorers.
Camille Flammarion's work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an ...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars next year, it will be equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Not only ...