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Mysterious dark streaks first observed on Mars in the 1970s are not what many believed they were. Scientists now say the ...
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...
Strange, dark streaks on Martian slopes that once hinted at flowing water are now believed to be dry dust slides, revealed ...
Scientists are examining a mysterious giant scar stretching across Mars — and do not know how it got there. The incredible feature, longer than the 446km (227-mile) Grand Canyon at roughly 600km ...
NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock – dubbe ...
Mars has shone red in the night sky for as long as humans have gazed up at the cosmos, fascinating people from the ancient Romans to the present day. "The fundamental question of why Mars is red ...
The researchers created a global density map of Mars using data regarding the crust ... "How the might have formed is still a mystery. They could be remnants from the huge Borealis Impact, or ...
What are those mysterious holes on Mars? The holes, aka pits, are located on the flanks of ancient volcanoes in Mars's Tharsis region, the largest volcanic region on the red planet and home to ...
Making the discovery even more mysterious is the fact that this hole ... Although scientists believe Mars was once more Earth-like billions of years ago, the best hope of finding signs of life ...
Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars.
The discovery, using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, is puzzling to scientists who study the red planet. By Kenneth Chang For reasons unknown, the spin of Mars is speeding up.
Here’s how it works. A mysterious pit on the flank of an ancient volcano on Mars has generated excitement recently because of what it could reveal beneath the surface of the Red Planet.