27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... history of water on our neighbour planet and its habitability,” added Dmitri Titov, ESA’s Mars Express project scientist. This image shows an example radar profile for one of 29 orbits over the 200 x 200 km ...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... discovery of this kind would be huge. Just last year, Mars Express found a pool of liquid water buried under the martian south ... finding signs of past life,” says Dmitri Titov, ESA’s Mars Express project scientist. There is only so much that a space-...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... of fame started to look frustratingly like a mistake. A mistake it was not, as another team of scientists using data from Mars Express has just reported a firm detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere above Gale Crater one day after...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
.... Flying high above the Red Planet is ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft and it has been quietly observing our planetary ...discovering several subglacial liquid bodies of various sizes strewn under Mars’ South polar region. This time around, using a ...
24 June 2019
Unusually high methane spike detected by Curiosity
... by some as being a by-product that Curiosity made itself, but independently confirmed results by scientists using data from Mars Express helped prove that the land-roving laboratory was not to blame. As before, collaborations with other scientists...
29 March 2019
Water on Mars is active today says new study
...cracks found in craters. Earlier this month, scientists suggested Mars once had an ancient planet-wide system of channels ...same climate evolution and the same path that Mars is going. Understanding Mars' evolution is crucial for understanding our own ...