For centuries, Mars has captivated the human imagination. Its reddish appearance has earned it the nickname “The Red Planet,” but is it really as red as we’ve been led to believe? While Mars certainly ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Iron in the rocks and dust on Mars's surface is oxidising in the thin atmosphere, giving the planet its warm, rust-coloured hue. Explore facts about the red planet. Mars is around two times smaller ...

HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the image on Dec. 12, 2022, 155 miles above the surface.

To figure this out, they created the first global map of Martian slope streaks, cataloging over 500,000 individual features across the planet's surface.

Mars geology Mars is an intriguing planet from a geological and atmospheric perspective. It formed with the rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.Around 3.8 billion years ago, the ...

In the time between Mars' formation 4.1 billion years ago to about 3 billion years ago, the Red Planet is thought to have been extremely wet, with features like valley networks, delta formations ...

NASA looking for people to live in a Mars simulator 04:54. A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet's surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the ...

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars.. It’s not that hard for ...

Big rocks slam into Mars, gouge craters, reveal subsurface features Seismic waves from the impacts, detected by a NASA instrument, offer details of the planet’s interior October 27, 2022 More ...

Without resolving the planet’s surface or somehow communicating with its inhabitants, it was premature to speculate about what forms of life might exist on Mars.