Can we use the planetary environment of Mars to help power a future colony on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Device hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how ...
When you see images from the surface of Mars it looks a lot like deserts here on Earth. It's dry and dusty and barren, and on Earth, we associate that kind of environment with extreme heat. On Mars, ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows two faces of Mars a hot and arid wasteland and as a cold water ice rich ...
A selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the "Rock Hall" drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. (Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/MSSS.) (CN) — The Mars rover Curiosity, which has spent ...
It is a question that has long vexed scientists studying Mars — how did water-carved canyons and valleys on the red planet form roughly 3.8 billion years ago, when our current understanding tells us ...
This image is a mosaic of day and night infrared images of Melas Chasma taken by the camera system on NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The daytime temperature images are shown in black and white, ...
A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The ...
A new lander headed for Mars will be able to take measurements its predecessors couldn't. The InSight lander is equipped with an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP3 ...
Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of the agency’s InSight lander, the hardware was supposed to be ...