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In most photos, the surface of Mars looks like an empty red wasteland. But if you look a bit closer, the remnants of an ancient alien civilization begin to take shape.

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...

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The researchers modeled how successful these rods would be at warming Mars, and found that releasing 30 liters of these nanorods per second could end up heating the entire planet by over 30 ...

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Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, ...