The samples were collected in 2020 at a site called “Mary Anning 3,” an area that once hosted lakes, streams, and marsh…
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Perseverance Is Closing in on a Mars Driving Record and Hits Five Years on Feb. 18
On February 18, 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover will mark five years on Mars. Perseverance is a masterpiece of engineering. For five years, the rover has been exploring Jezero Crater and…
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This milestone marks the 100,000th image of Mars. The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the shot with its high-resolution HiRISE camera, showcasing an area of moving sand dunes. In…
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New observations from the Perseverance rover have led researchers to a surprising conclusion. Analysis of the bleached rocks on Mars revealed that the planet once had wet, humid areas with…
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Perseverance has finally answered an age-old question: do lightning strikes on Mars make any sound? In recordings obtained by the rover, scientists identified electrical discharges for the first time, captured…
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Mars once had flowing water and a thicker atmosphere, so it could have been suitable for life at some point. Unfortunately, around 4.2 to 3.7 billion years ago, rivers, lakes,…
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Perseverance’s PIXL data show Jezero Crater hosted habitable environments multiple times
Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) examined geochemical maps of rock formations created by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater using the X-ray lithochemistry instrument known as…
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The six-wheeled explorer Perseverance has discovered an intriguing rock on the surface of Mars that resembles either a battle helmet or a volcano. In a new image captured by the…
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If you were to add just a splash of color to this image, the landscape would closely resemble Earth. The team behind the Perseverance rover enhanced a breathtaking 360-degree panorama…
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New research from planetary scientists at the Open University in the U.K., led by Adam Loskutov, shows Mars was much wetter and rainier than previously thought. His team studied ancient…
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NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is gearing up to send its first crewed mission to Mars as early as 2029. Billionaire engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk is one…
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The visual fantasies of Manas Bhatia, an architecture designer from New Delhi, transport us to a city of the future. The settlement looks far more advanced than any modern human…
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Perseverance captured visible auroras on Mars for the first time. The rover photographed the light show in March of last year…
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A new study shows that toxic dust on Mars could make future missions to the Red Planet dangerous. Specifically, the silicon, gypsum, perchlorates, and nanophase iron oxides in Martian dust…
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Evidence of a shoreline hidden deep beneath the Red Planet’s surface was discovered in 2021 by Chinese researchers using the Rover Zhurong. Recently, an international team obtained new evidence that…
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A new study by researchers at Brown University (USA) and the University of Bern (Switzerland) shows that iron in Martian rocks oxidized because of water—rather than by dry hematite oxidation,…
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Mars is a cold, seemingly dead planet, but it’s also incredibly beautiful. NASA has released images of natural phenomena we will never see on Earth. They look magical and a…
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Elon Musk’s plan to put a million people on Mars could wreck the search for life
Recently, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a striking claim: that in 30 years a million people will be living on Mars. Not all scientists agree. Building a city of that…
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For the past ten months, the Curiosity rover has been studying Gediz Vallis, a channel that cuts through Mount Sharp, a formation that has intrigued scientists since before Curiosity began…
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This conclusion was reached by an international team of scientists led by Ingrid Daubar, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Brown University (USA). Therefore, colonizing Mars…
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is inviting four volunteers to live in simulated Martian conditions for a year — a scenario recently visualized by the neural network Midjourney.…
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Researchers modeled future Mars colonists using data from Arctic stations and submarine crews. They found that “neurotic” individuals have the worst chance of surviving on the Red Planet. People who…
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Were there oceans on Mars? Scientists have long debated where they came from, how large they were, how deep they reached, and where they went. Numerous recent studies now point…
