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mars
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A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech Sean McMahon, The University of Edinburgh While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered…
NASA’s search for life on Mars: a rocky road for its rovers, a long slog for scientists – and back on Earth, a battle of the budget
Amy J. Williams, University of Florida Is or was there life on Mars? That profound question is so…
March 29, 2024
New evidence for an unexpected player in Earth’s multimillion-year climate cycles: the planet Mars
Dietmar Muller Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Slah Boulila, Sorbonne Université Our…
March 27, 2024
For All Mankind’s Happy Valley: why a Martian city could well extend below the surface
The entrance to For All Mankind’s Happy Valley. Apple Elizabeth Stanway, University of Warwick Apple TV+‘s alternate space…
February 1, 2024
INSIGHTS FROM THE LAB: Haifeng Xiao
Haifeng Xiao, originally from Tianmen City, China, is pursuing a Ph.D. at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. His research has focused on predicting calving events in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica and studying seasonal CO2 deposits on Mars' polar caps.
November 22, 2023
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Surpasses Communication Obstacles in Successful 52nd Flight
NASA‘s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 52nd flight, marking a significant milestone in the mission. The flight…
July 16, 2023
A Brief History of Mars
Our rover representatives on Mars are only just beginning to unravel the secrets hidden beneath the dunes of…
May 26, 2023
What are Perseverance’s Wheels Made Out Of?
Mars has less than 1% of the atmospheric volume of Earth, meaning that inflating the wheels of any…
May 20, 2023
Seismic Waves Reveal Mars’ Liquid Core and Chemical Composition
Scientists have directly measured the properties of Mars’ core for the first time and confirmed model predictions of…
May 9, 2023
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds “Ripples” In Ancient Martian Rock—And a Lake May Have Left Them There
It’s been established for quite some time now that Mars was once a watery world; evidence of its…
February 23, 2023