Mars News

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24 March 2023 | The Weather Channel

  Using one of its navigation cameras, Percy recently managed to capture pictures of drifting clouds just before sunrise — a scene that sounds very familiar, but is completely otherworldly More

8 February 2023 | NASA

 When NASA’s Curiosity rover arrived at the “sulfate-bearing unit” last fall, scientists thought they’d seen the last evidence that lakes once covered this region of Mars. That’s because the rock layers here formed in drier settings than regions explored earlier in the mission. More

By: Evan Gough | 6 January 2023 |   

UNIVERSE TODAY

 At this point in its mission, NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has collected almost 50% of its samples. The rover is now building its first sample ‘depot’ on the surface of Mars. The depot is a flat, obstacle-free area with 11 separate landing circles, one for each sample tube and one for the lander.  More

By: Mike Wall | 15 December 2022 | SPACE.com

 NASA's Ingenuity helicopter now has three dozen Mars flights under its belt.

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced its 36th Red Planet sortie on Sunday (Dec. 10), staying aloft for 60.5 seconds on a flight that covered 361 feet (110 meters) of horizontal distance. More

By: Jacklin Kwan | 16 November 2022 | NewScientist

 The meteorites that bombarded Mars during the early days of the inner solar system may have carried enough water to create a 300-metre-deep ocean on the planet.  More

By:  TWC India Edit Team  | 17 November 2022 | THE TIMES OF INDIA

 Picture this: about a hundred years from now, your grandchildren could be relaxing with their grandchildren on a peaceful Martian weekend.  More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 05 May 2022 | NASA

Scientists were baffled last year when studying images of the Martian surface taken at dawn by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter.  More

By: NASA- MARS Exploration program | 09 May 2022 | NASA

NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Mo

By: Nick Oakes | Astronomy

 Mars has called to us since ancient times. To humans across the eons, the red-tinted speck glinting in the night sky has garnered special attention, with myths and legends wound around its possible ties to Earth. As we observed Mars with telescopes, this fondness graduated into a scientific fascination. More

By: TZVI JOFFRE | THE JERUSALEM POST

 At least 22 people would be needed to effectively operate a mining colony on Mars, according to a new, pre-print study published earlier this month by data scientists from George Mason University on the arXiv server.  More

By: Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D. & Nicholas Gerbis | HowStuffWorks

Mars has fascinated us for millennia. Almost from the time astronomers first turned their telescopes on the planet shining in the night sky, we've imagined life there. More

Winter Wonderland on Mars❄️   The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these images of sand dunes and craters covered by frost, ice, and snow just after winter solstice. More

AI generated Nike Concept Store on Mars ✨ It's not every day that you get to imagine what a store on another planet would look like.  More