... widespread damage as it thundered over land. Without plate tectonics to cause huge landslips, it is expected that any tsunamis on Mars would also be generated by an impacting body striking its surface. So the hunt has been on to find signs of the...
... orbiter will be equally laden with equipment, including a Mars ion and neutral particle analyser, and energetic particles analyser,...is launched, it will take about seven months to reach Mars, and the final procedure of landing will only last about ...
...highlands”, Galofre and colleagues analysed the morphology of valleys on Mars to determine the different ways in which they could have ... support for the presence of ice sheets on early Mars,” say the team in their research paper published by...
... became lunar-like in composition through millions or billions of years of space weathering. Alternatively, the object came from Mars itself. “The shape of the 101429 spectrum tells us that it is rich in pyroxene, a mineral found in the outer layer...
... for it to remain to be stable – instead it usually evaporates. However other observations suggest that minerals seen in this part of Mars typically contain only a few percent water, much less than is evidenced by these new observations, says Alexey...
... Hope mission makes up the trio of missions heading to Mars this month, Perseverance is the successor to NASA’s Curiosity rover... to see if one day it is possible to colonise Mars. "China's steadfast commitments to space probes and the development...