“End of an Era” – NASA Shuts Down Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s ...
Tag: mars
Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets
Nina Lanza is a planetary scientist in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Space Remote Sensing and Data Science group and principal ...
NASA rover snaps photos of ancient ‘waves’ carved into Mars mountainside
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has photographed rocks imprinted with tiny ripples from an ancient lake. And these tiny ripples are ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has established a historic Mars sample depot
In a recent breakthrough by NASA, ten sample tubes, each containing a unique piece of Martian geology, have been left ...
This robotic arm will help return Martian samples back to Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) is using a unique robotic arm to bring back Martian samples to Earth, according to ...
A Bear Face was spotted on Mars. Here’s how that happened
Social media is abuzz with a picture of a bear taken not on Earth but on our neighborly planet Mars. ...
Megatsunami swept over Mars after massive asteroid hit the Red Planet
A Martian megatsunami — a giant killer wave that may have reached more than 80 stories tall — may have ...
Extremophiles on Mars could survive for hundreds of millions of years
One of Earth's toughest microbes could survive on Mars, lying dormant beneath the surface, for 280 million years, new research ...
Liquid water on Mars — New finding suggests the planet may be geothermally active
A team of scientists has found new topographical evidence of liquid water beneath the ice cap of Mars' south pole. ...
A Chinese rover has found probable traces of ancient floods on Mars
As time passes, we become more and more convinced that there were vast natural reservoirs of water on Mars in ...