Curiosity’s Mastcam Views Flaky, Streambed Rocks

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of layered, flaky rocks believed to have formed in…

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Releasing One of Its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps

The map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority of the…

Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape

For the past year, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from…

InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science

As the power available to NASA’s InSight Mars lander diminishes by the day, the spacecraft’s team…

A Long History of Flowing Water Recorded in Clay-Bearing Sediments on Mars

A region on Mars may have been repeatedly habitable until relatively late in Martian history, says…

Spring Fans And Polygons On Mars

Both water and dry ice have a major role in sculpting Mars’ surface at high latitudes.…

Perseverance Examines Martian Cliffs

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Click…

Uplifted Rocks In The Center Of A Martian Crater

Impacts forming craters excavate holes deep into the ground, exposing rocks from far below the present…

Sinuous Aeolis Serpens and a Crater Rim On Mars

Long, amazing, Aeolis Serpens “fluvial ridge” intersects a crater rim in this observation. …

Layering in Far Eastern Candor Chasma On Mars

Context Camera images suggest that sedimentary layers here are organized into bundles of quasi-periodic beds. …