... been sufficient to carve Valles Marineris. With a volume of 9.85 million cubic kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. Nonetheless, it still means that 98.5 million...
...). Core asteroid impacts should have enriched an appreciable fraction of preserved martian craters with metal ores, rendering Mars the greatest treasury of accessible rare metals in the solar system. Sacramento Station analogies The business benefits...
... of a field indicates that convection has stopped, or dwindled to a level that is incapable of fuelling the field’s development. In early Mars history its magnetic field vanished, causing the near total loss of the planet’s atmosphere, and scientists...
... station, many see China’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As along with Mars, China is also crafting an exploration mission to study the Jovian system set for launch sometime around 2030...
... under the ground or inside the rocks. And in that case, Sagan wrote, “if there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” As astrobiologist David Grinspoon...
... with our spacecraft throughout the solar system, but Mars surface missions take this commitment to another level,” said... more drones will be sent on subsequent missions, not only to Mars but also to Titan, to map the surfaces of these worlds ...