Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Europe’s upcoming Mars rover now has a detailed map to aid its search for ancient Red Planet life (video)
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We now have a better picture of where the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover will be driving when it lands ...
Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters
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Over two million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Mars, scarring the surface with one massive crater and around two billion ...
Bad news for life on Mars? Red Planet’s wet epoch may have been shorter than we thought
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Mars may be dry and barren today, but multiple lines of evidence show that water flowed across the Red Planet billions of ...
Life on Mars could have thrived near active volcanoes and an ancient mile-deep lake
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Early Mars may have been more tectonically and volcanically active than previously thought. Evidence of tectonic activity around 4 billion years ago ...
New map of ice on Mars could help NASA decide where to send future astronauts
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The NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project released its fourth and most recent map of where on Mars we might find, ...
A mud lake on Mars might be hiding signs of life in chaotic terrain
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Planetary scientists want to search for biosignatures in what they believe was once a Martian mud lake. After scientists carefully studied what ...
