The rocks, discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover, are unusually rich in manganese oxide — a chemical that adds to growing ...
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In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars. The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its nemesis Blue Origin, already poised to compete over rocketing astronauts to the Moon, are ...
NASA’s mission to retrieve a sample from Mars is over budget and behind schedule. But it may be our best chance to learn ...
Mars appears to be blasting material out of its atmosphere, much as the sun launches explosive coronal mass ejections, even though the Red Planet has no overall magnetic field. When the magnetic ...
Mar. 13, 2024 — A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars' equator in plain sight.
Of course, the Mars of today isn’t so hospitable—it’s atmosphere is nearly non-existent, riverbeds are dried up, and any water is now locked under Mars iron oxide-rich soil or CO2-filled ice caps. In ...