It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...
NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions. In March NASA unveiled ...
Scientists have responded in a big way to NASA's call to help reformulate its Mars robotic exploration strategy, submitting about 400 ideas and Red Planet mission concepts to the space agency. NASA's ...
The mission also serves as a de facto scouting mission that could unlock clues about the similarities or challenges that humans might face during future trips to the red planet. To highlight the ...
A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade orbiting the Red Planet and delivering groundbreaking insights into its ...
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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable
Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission ...
The Mars Express orbiter, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first interplanetary mission, entered orbit around Mars on June 2nd, 2003. Since then, the probe has mapped the Martian surface using its ...
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. We checked in with the UNLV astrobiologist leading the specimen ...
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