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